Posted on 10/28/2014 1:37:06 PM PDT by jazusamo
A Georgia judge has denied a push from civil rights groups to force the state's secretary of State to add 40,000 recently registered voters to the rolls, a setback for groups working to register minority voters that could have a big impact on Georgia's hotly contested races next week.
Judge Christopher Brasher has declined to issue a writ of mandamus filed by Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the New Georgia Project and the Georgia branch of the NAACP that would have forced Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) and local counties to make sure the voters the New Georgia Project and the NAACP had registered can vote next week. The suit was brought by the groups after roughly one third of the more than 100,000 mostly minority voters they'd registered hadn't appeared on the rolls, potentially disenfranchising thousands of mostly Democratic voters. The decision could lead to chaos next week as they try to vote and are forced to do so provisionally, and may well lead to additional legal challenges after the election.
Georgia has a number of close races including tight Senate and gubernatorial battles and a hard-fought reelection fight for Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.).
The groups that lost the court decision are furious — and are already hinting at further legal action.
"We are deeply disappointed by Judge Brasher's decision, which acknowledges the burdens placed on voters but does not provide them with the relief of knowing that they will be permitted to vote in this election," Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams (D), the head of the New Georgia Project, said in a statement. "The inadequate remedy of a provisional ballot should disturb every Georgian who values the right to vote. The New Georgia Project will continue to pursue all legal avenues available, not only to serve the voters that we know may be silenced in this election, but to bring transparency and progress to those who wish to exercise their franchise in the future."
Others suggested judge was playing politics.
"A Republican-appointed judge has backed the republican Secretary of State to deny the right to vote to a largely African American and Latino population. It is outrageous that Georgians' rights are being ignored," Dr. Francys Johnson, president of the Georgia Conference of the NAACP, said in a statement.
Oh? That should read the abettors of voter fraud are furious.
LOL!
Big Woop!
So they cheat a different way, no problem.
This was a group working closely with Nunn
In the words of the Fatman . . . “Ain’t that a shame!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8KJe8Ugtd8
It sounds like the potential “voters” were not registered on time or not in accordance with the law. The judge did the right thing.
I could not tell from the article, as I was unable to get the whole article to show for me and gave up trying.
So the author couldn't give a hint as to why those people weren't registered? Paper work mistakes? Lack of proof of residence? 30,000 people living at one address? Lack of pulse?
Exactly...I believe Stacy Abrams was or is a chief of staff for Nunn or her reelection campaign.
I think these groups are on to something.
White voters have registration deadline, no none else does. Great stuff.
No IDs
Hand out samples at the poll so they know how to mark the ballot.
What else can we do to guarantee their rights?
Yes, here is a prior thread on this that I should have linked in the post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3203369/posts
“The inadequate remedy of a provisional ballot....” Provisional ballot = No disenfranchisement problem. Case closed.
Subversion is the name of the game.
IMHO
Oh, that’s why the polls shifted.
From article I linked in post #11:
“Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D), who has contributed to Nunn’s campaign and was listed on an official campaign strategy document as a proposed member of a group of potential policy advisers.”
I had a liberal twisting themselves up into a frenzy when I said it wasn’t necessary to count provisional ballots if the margin was greater than the number of provisional ballots.
They FREAKED OUT at the concept of uncounted ballots.
You have to be seriously math impaired not to understand that.
Ping to post # 15.
As a white male, I have to follow the rules.
Are they saying blacks are too stupid to follow the rules. If they cannot, their vote shouldn’t be counted.
It was a pathetic article. It never went into why they weren’t registered in time.
“Others suggested judge was playing politics.”
And just who started that trend?
Prior thread link at post # 11.
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