Georgia County Admits To Illegally Disenfranchising Voters

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The State Election Board on Thursday approved a consent agreement that levies a $180,000 fine against the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections for violation state election laws during the 2008 and 2012 general elections.

The violations include failure to place voters in correct precincts, failure to update the supplemental voter list, failure to timely process address changes and other registration documents, failure to provide official voter lists to all precincts, failure to provide absentee ballots to all voters who requested them, failure to process all provisional ballots, failure to complete required paperwork to ensure the accuracy of the election and other violations.

PSSST...This was an all black area but remember, its not about race....

These violations led to qualified voters not being allowed to cast ballots, the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office said on Thursday in a news release.

State Fines Fulton County $180,000 For Election Law Violations

 

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At the same time, the state has enacted policies that disproportionately burden voters of color. In 2006, Georgia enacted one of the country’s earliest and strictest voter ID laws. In 2012, the Secretary of State purged thousands of voters from the rolls a few months before the presidential election, and this year the state’s Director of Elections resigned after her office mistakenly canceledthe registrations of hundreds of thousands of voters.

“There’s no question there were significant problems in Fulton County, but they’re being singled out,” said Houk. “The Secretary of State seems to have an inconsistent way of handling these issues.”

Over the past few years, the state has also cut the number of days of early voting from 45 to 21. Lawmakers unsuccessfully attempted earlier this year to further slash the available days to 12.

Georgia County Admits To Illegally Disenfranchising Voters

Its not about race...not about race....not about race...

 

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I say we blame Obama and impeach him!!!