How? I would say that 2016 was as polarizing as 2020. Now compare the 2020 with 2016 and say this is normal.
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Part of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was to create a database for States to verify new voters. The system is tied into the State's DMV databases. When a new voter registration is processed, if there is no DMV record for that person (no driver's license or State ID), the voter's identity is checked in the HAVV database to verify that there is social security number or a medicare record for that person.
So the only submissions to HAVV are people who have registered to vote, but have no State issued ID. HAVV is public data, and it's out of reach of local actors. It's all automated.
Here are the HAVV numbers for Georgia for the weeks ending July 20 and 27 of 2019.
edit to add: sorry, the forum messes up my formatting.
The columns are: State,Total Transactions, unprocessed transactions, Total Non-Matches, Total Matches, Single Match Alive, and Single Match Deceased.
GEORGIA 92793 0 89548 3245 3170 75
GEORGIA 85085 0 84262 823 749 74
There were 177K+ registrations submitted to HAVV in a 2 week period, only 4K of them had verifiable identities, and 149 of them were deceased.
This isn't people walking into the County Clerk's office and registering to vote- this is the work of an NGO or someone like that. Maybe Stacy Abram's people, I don't know. If you look at the weeks on either side of this 2 week window, there is nothing.
Who submitted all these new voter registrations in Georgia in 2019?