Some applied as far back as April.
“The Secretary of State is supposed to represent all the people — Democrats, Republicans, Independents, registered and unregistered voters alike,” Congressman John Lewis said Monday, during a press conference hosted by the New Georgia Project in Atlanta. “But it seems like the Secretary of State of Georgia has picked sides in this election. It seems he is not on the side of the people of this state.”
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic party leader in the state House of Representatives, leads the New Georgia Project, an initiative that aims to register minority groups to vote. The initiative was successful in registering 86,000 new voters — but Abrams said the group can’t understand why half those new voters haven’t shown up on Georgia’s official list of registered voters, yet.
Abrams and Lewis joined Congressman Sanford Bishop, the NAACP, religious leaders and others in demanding an answer to the problem from Secretary of State Brian Kemp — the man who is ultimately in charge of voting in Georgia.
“The New Georgia Project submitted 86,000 voting applications in April,” Lewis said. “Why is it, Mr. Secretary, that less than half of these voters have made it onto the voting roll almost six months later? These people were barred from voting in the primary in May and we’re here today because we believe they may be barred from voting next month in the General Election.”
State and religious officials were also joined by Diamond Walton, a first-year student at Columbus State University who registered to vote in Columbus through the New Georgia Project back in August. The 18-year-old said she was looking forward to voting in her first election.
“Every vote counts and I would like to be counted,” she said.
But Walton still has not received her voting registration card.
“My situation is not unique and that is why it is so troubling,” she said.
Abrams said voter registration information in Georgia is either submitted directly to the Secretary of State’s office or to whatever county the voter lives in. Kemp’s office sends applications submitted there to the appropriate counties for processing.
“The county evaluates and verifies the forms and if information is missing, those applicants are notified and they’re put on the pending list, meaning they’re going to be registered pending verification of their eligibility,” Abrams said.
When the county verifies all the information, the applications are sent back to Kemp’s office for a process called “matching.”
“That is the citizenship match that Georgia requires that has come under grave scrutiny in the past and this year is the first time we’re doing it with a major election,” Abrams said.
Abrams said she couldn’t say for sure where registration was stalling — just that almost half of the voters New Georgia Project helped register don’t show up on either the voting roll or the pending list.
“We cannot find our people — 40,000 of them,” she said. “We cannot find them on either list. We don’t know where they are.”
Abrams and her supporters fear these disenfranchised residents will be unable to vote in the early elections in the coming week. They’re even wondering if Kemp’s office will find the missing voters by the November elections.
It was unclear as of press time how many of these lost voters may be from Henry County.
“We are in a state of emergency here in Georgia,” Lewis said. “It’s looking like we are having an ongoing problem — a problem that the Voting Rights Act helped rectify for 50 short years, but a problem that can run rampant today if we do not speak out or speak up and make a little noise.”
Concerned voters should contact Election Protection at 866-687-8683, according to a New Georgia Project press release.
Early voting should be illegal.
I bet that their mail in ballots were sent directly to SEIU headquarters and the ballots will be cast after they are “properly” completed.
Just setting things up now so that the results (stolen election) are so confused that a challenge is impossible.
I figured it out just by reading the title of the article and reading the name John Lewis, D-GA who believes that sharks still follow the 1800's oceanic "blood-soaked slave trail" to America.
Leni
“brams said the group can’t understand why half those new voters haven’t shown up on Georgia’s official list of registered voters, yet.”
Probably because they are dead or illegal aliens.
This is the same New Georgia Project,
founded by House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams,
that was subpoenaed in September by the Secretary of State’s office
after an investigation showed “significant illegal activity.”
It is scary how easy it is to get absentee ballots in Ga. Just go in and ask for as many as you want, they are sent to the address on record, which is easily manipulated.
No ID required
What is the deadline for parking cars with empty (for now) trunks?
Wisconsin has done two things. It made early voting uniform through out the State and finally gotten a clear for voter ID.
Have the Democrats checked the local cemeteries? I’m sure they’ll find those missing voters there.
They’re dead, Jim.
The esteemed journalists must have forgotten to ask Abrams whether she knows if all the individuals her group tried to register were in fact eligible (i.e., not registered elsewhere, citizens of the US and GA, residents of the location where they are attempting to register, not convicted felons, etc.). What exactly did she do to determine this?
“Over 250 of these new voters live at the address of a Democrat party precinct chairman. It should be easy to verify them.”
A process that needs to be addressed if it is going to be used.
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“The county evaluates and verifies the forms and if information is missing,
those applicants are notified and they’re put on the pending list, meaning
they’re going to be registered pending verification of their eligibility,”
Abrams said.
When the county verifies all the information, the applications are
sent back to Kemp’s office for a process called “matching.”
“That is the citizenship match that Georgia requires that has come under grave
scrutiny in the past and this year is the first time we’re doing it with a major
election,” Abrams said.
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Poor Dems, they can dish it out but can’t take it.
42,000 illegal aliens are still waiting ???
get Obama on the Red Phone...
John Lewis should be stripped of his “American” adjective and declared an African and shipped one-way to the African sh*thole of his choice. He sure as hell isn’t an American.
What a piece of garbage.
Check the cemeteries. Some of the dead have been voting for decades.