Block the Vote, Swing the Senate: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election

[Lakhota]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

BREAKING: Court Refuses To Intervene In Case of 40,000 Missing Voters In Georgia

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

 

[Lakhota]

Ginsburg Was Right: Texas' Extreme Voter ID Law Is Stopping People From Voting

WASHINGTON -- A Texas voter ID law considered to be one of the most restrictive in the country is doing exactly what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgwarned it would do: stopping Americans from voting.

A disabled woman in Travis County was turned away from voting because she couldn’t afford to pay her parking tickets. An IHOP dishwasher from Mercedes can’t afford the cost of getting a new birth certificate, which he would need to obtain the special photo ID card required for voting. A student at a historically black college in Marshall, who registered some of her fellow students to vote, won't be able to cast a ballot herself because her driver's license isn't from Texas and the state wouldn't accept her student identification card.

There are plenty of stories like this coming out of Texas in the early voting period leading up to Election Day. Texas' tough voter ID law, signed by Gov. Rick Perry in 2011, requires voters to show one of seven types of photo identification. Concealed handgun licenses are allowed, but college student IDs are not, nor are driver’s licenses that have been expired for more than sixty days.

The law has been the subject of an extensive legal battle, with a federal court finding it unconstitutional earlier this month. But the Supreme Court then rejected an emergency request to put the law on hold for the upcoming election. Ginsburg authored a blistering dissent to that decision, calling the law an "unconstitutional poll tax.” The ruling marked the first time in 32 years that the Supreme Court allowed a law restricting voting rights to be implemented after a federal court ruled it unconstitutional for targeting minorities, according to SCOTUSblog.

The early voting period is still going on in Texas, but voters and election officials told The Huffington Post there have already been problems casting ballots due to the new restrictive measure. Under the law, Texans without acceptable forms of identification must go to a driver’s license office to get a voting card. In Austin, 45-year-old Eric Kennie, who hasn't set foot outside the state his whole life, couldn't get his cardbecause the birth certificate he struggled to afford lists his mother's maiden name. In Houston, an election judge claims that a 93-year-old veteran was turned away from the polls because his driver's license had been expired for too long. Another 62-year-old woman told MSNBC that she was threatened with jail time when she went to obtain her voter ID because she was driving with a California license.

Dana DeBeauvoir, the clerk responsible for overseeing election conduct in Travis County, which has over one million people and includes the city of Austin, said she spoke this week to a 61-year-old disabled woman, Madeleine, who was “in tears” because she was turned away when she went to vote at a grocery store.

The low-income woman is on a payment plan with a court to pay off her parking tickets, DeBeauvoir said, and while she’s on the plan, her license is suspended. Now, Madeleine has to quickly get to a driver’s license office to get a voting card. Her disability qualifies her to vote by mail, but she missed that deadline because she didn’t know her license would be denied.

”She’s been voting every year since the day 18-year-olds got the right to vote, and now suddenly she finds out she’s lost her right to vote because of money,” DeBeauvoir said. “If she had money, she could just pay off the tickets [and] vote.”

More: Ginsburg Was Right: Texas' Extreme Voter ID Law Is Stopping People From Voting

The article has several more sad stories of voter suppression by Republicans.

 

[TooTall]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

As it states in your link, the lawsuit was dismissed. Do you wonder why?

And now the rest of the story:

"Kemp recently called the lawsuit "frivolous and totally without merit." He called allegations that there are 40,000 missing or unprocessed applications "absolutely false" and said that all counties have processed registration applications.

"It is time for the New Georgia Project and others to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations and let the counties continue to do their jobs," he added.

Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

 

[Lakhota]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

As it states in your link, the lawsuit was dismissed. Do you wonder why?

And now the rest of the story:

"Kemp recently called the lawsuit "frivolous and totally without merit." He called allegations that there are 40,000 missing or unprocessed applications "absolutely false" and said that all counties have processed registration applications.

"It is time for the New Georgia Project and others to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations and let the counties continue to do their jobs," he added.

Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

And you believe that?

 

[TooTall]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

As it states in your link, the lawsuit was dismissed. Do you wonder why?

And now the rest of the story:

"Kemp recently called the lawsuit "frivolous and totally without merit." He called allegations that there are 40,000 missing or unprocessed applications "absolutely false" and said that all counties have processed registration applications.

"It is time for the New Georgia Project and others to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations and let the counties continue to do their jobs," he added.

Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

And you believe that?

Read the last sentence that I highlighted very slowly. Do you doubt the word of the New Georgia Project and the NAACP? Their lawsuit being thrown out of court in Fulton County should have given you the clue that they were merely playing the race card.

 

[Lakhota]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

As it states in your link, the lawsuit was dismissed. Do you wonder why?

And now the rest of the story:

"Kemp recently called the lawsuit "frivolous and totally without merit." He called allegations that there are 40,000 missing or unprocessed applications "absolutely false" and said that all counties have processed registration applications.

"It is time for the New Georgia Project and others to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations and let the counties continue to do their jobs," he added.

Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

And you believe that?

Read the last sentence that I highlighted very slowly. Do you doubt the word of the New Georgia Project and the NAACP? Their lawsuit being thrown out of court in Fulton County should have given you the clue that they were merely playing the race card.

Read this very slowly:

BREAKING: Court Refuses To Intervene In Case of 40,000 Missing Voters In Georgia

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Lol!!

 

[Antares]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

As it states in your link, the lawsuit was dismissed. Do you wonder why?

And now the rest of the story:

"Kemp recently called the lawsuit "frivolous and totally without merit." He called allegations that there are 40,000 missing or unprocessed applications "absolutely false" and said that all counties have processed registration applications.

"It is time for the New Georgia Project and others to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations and let the counties continue to do their jobs," he added.

Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

And you believe that?

Read the last sentence that I highlighted very slowly. Do you doubt the word of the New Georgia Project and the NAACP? Their lawsuit being thrown out of court in Fulton County should have given you the clue that they were merely playing the race card.

Read this very slowly:

BREAKING: Court Refuses To Intervene In Case of 40,000 Missing Voters In Georgia

Nigga please........

 

[thereisnospoon]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

As it states in your link, the lawsuit was dismissed. Do you wonder why?

And now the rest of the story:

"Kemp recently called the lawsuit "frivolous and totally without merit." He called allegations that there are 40,000 missing or unprocessed applications "absolutely false" and said that all counties have processed registration applications.

"It is time for the New Georgia Project and others to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations and let the counties continue to do their jobs," he added.

Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

And you believe that?

Oh but the story you posted is 100% fact, correct?
As though the source does not have an anti voter ID agenda.
If the alleged 800K people wanted to register to vote, they would have and they could easily do so. If they refuse to perform their duty as responsible citizens and vote, that is THEIR problem.

 

[TooTall]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

As it states in your link, the lawsuit was dismissed. Do you wonder why?

And now the rest of the story:

"Kemp recently called the lawsuit "frivolous and totally without merit." He called allegations that there are 40,000 missing or unprocessed applications "absolutely false" and said that all counties have processed registration applications.

"It is time for the New Georgia Project and others to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations and let the counties continue to do their jobs," he added.

Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

And you believe that?

Read the last sentence that I highlighted very slowly. Do you doubt the word of the New Georgia Project and the NAACP? Their lawsuit being thrown out of court in Fulton County should have given you the clue that they were merely playing the race card.

Read this very slowly:

BREAKING: Court Refuses To Intervene In Case of 40,000 Missing Voters In Georgia

I read it and suggest that the proof is in the pudding.

"Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

And, do think the New Georgia Project and the NAACP are lying?

 

[whitehall]

Just out of curiosity how does the "New Georgia Project" determine whether the registrations are legal? Do they knock on doors with a Hispanic translator and take the person's word that they are a citizen? Do they check felony convictions? Do they do any sort of check on their registrations? My guess is that they do not and leave it up to the county or city registrar to find the 80,000 people and do a simple I.D. check. This takes time and the Georgia Project had two years.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Joel Solow and Kevin Moran protest voter suppression in Georgia. (Photo courtesy of Steve Eberhardt)

On Monday, October 27, eight activists with Moral Monday Georgia occupied the office of Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, holding signs that read “Let Us Vote.”

There are 800,000 unregistered African-American, Hispanic and Asian eligible voters in Georgia. This year, the New Georgia Project registered 85,000 of them. After the applications were submitted, Kemp subpoenaed the group’s records and accused them of voter registration fraud. It turned out that only 25 of the forms were fraudulent and the group was required by law to turn them in regardless.

Despite the scant evidence of voter fraud, 40,000 new voter registration applications have yet to be processed in the state, according to the New Georgia Project. Civil rights groups sued Kemp and voter registration boards in five heavily populated urban counties, but on Wednesday a Fulton County judge dismissed the lawsuit. It was the latest court decision restricting voting rights this election year.

Sixty percent of the voters registered by the New Georgia Project are under 35. “If we don’t get them engaged, if we have a chilling effect on their very first time to vote, they may never come back to the polls,” Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, founder of the New Georgia Project, recently told Rachel Maddow.

Those 40,000 missing voters could very well be the difference in a hotly contested Senate race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn and a close gubernatorial contest between Republican incumbent Nathan Deal and Democratic challenger Jason Carter.

As Kemp told Georgia Republicans in September, “The Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Georgia is far from the only battleground state where voting rights are under attack this year.

Maps & More: New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election - The Nation

If Republicans love the Constitution so much - why don't they try to make voting easier instead of harder?

As it states in your link, the lawsuit was dismissed. Do you wonder why?

And now the rest of the story:

"Kemp recently called the lawsuit "frivolous and totally without merit." He called allegations that there are 40,000 missing or unprocessed applications "absolutely false" and said that all counties have processed registration applications.

"It is time for the New Georgia Project and others to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations and let the counties continue to do their jobs," he added.

Proof that any voter has been turned away due to an unprocessed ballot application hasn't materialized. When asked repeatedly in recent days for examples of voters turned away due to fraudulent or nonexistent ballots, representatives for New Georgia Project and the NAACP told The Post that they didn't know of any."

And you believe that?

Read the last sentence that I highlighted very slowly. Do you doubt the word of the New Georgia Project and the NAACP? Their lawsuit being thrown out of court in Fulton County should have given you the clue that they were merely playing the race card.

Read this very slowly:

BREAKING: Court Refuses To Intervene In Case of 40,000 Missing Voters In Georgia

Newsflash....There IS a racist lurking under every piece of furniture.........

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Lakhota. USMB's biggest race-baiting POS.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Just out of curiosity how does the "New Georgia Project" determine whether the registrations are legal? Do they knock on doors with a Hispanic translator and take the person's word that they are a citizen? Do they check felony convictions? Do they do any sort of check on their registrations? My guess is that they do not and leave it up to the county or city registrar to find the 80,000 people and do a simple I.D. check. This takes time and the Georgia Project had two years.

They're "activists" for God's sake. They're "activists! That's a democrat euphemism for race-baiting septic tank crawler...like Lakhota.

 

[The Rabbi]

So people didnt register and now they're upset they can't vote? Seriously?
This thread is just coming justification for the GOP sweep. Bet money on it. The meme will be "The GOP won only because they gerrymandered the districts and suppressed minority votes."

 

[CrusaderFrank]

No ID. No Vote.

It's that simple

 

[The Rabbi]

No ID. No Vote.

It's that simple

Racist!