Hi Mary,
Good question. It is the goal of evil bastards like Brian Kemp to purify as
much as possitle the whiteness of the Georgia electorate.
Bob Hachey
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mary Otten
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:40 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] The essence of corruption on display in Georgia
If this kind of thing is allowed to stand, then what is left of our so-called
experiment and democratic government is officially over.
Last year, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state canceled the registrations
of over half a million Georgians because they left the state or moved to
another county. Except they didn’t. The nation’s top experts in address
location reviewed Kemp’s list of purged voters — and returned the names and
addresses of 340,134 who never moved at all.
John Lenser, CEO of CohereOne of San Rafael, California, led the team analyzing
the purge list. He concluded, “340,000 of those voters remained at their
original address. They should have never been removed from the voter
registration rolls.”
This is the story of the mass exodus from Georgia that never happened, and the
mass purge of voters by Kemp, GOP candidate for governor, through methods
guaranteed to disproportionately take away the vote from the young, the poor
and voters of color.
It began five years ago, when Kemp stonewalled my first requests for
information on purges in Georgia, first for Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone,now
for Truthout and Democracy Now! It took my lawyer’s threat of a federal
lawsuit, filed last week in Atlanta federal court, to blast the list of the
electorally doomed from Kemp’s hands.
The files recorded 530,510 voters as moved from “inactive to cancelled.” We
could not decode about 80,000 addresses — and discovered that 19,118 of the
voters had passed away.
And the rest of the voters of this supposed mass migration?
The experts ran the names through an “advanced address hygiene process,” that
is, digging through dozens — up to 200 — dynamically updated databases (such as
cell phone bills and tax filings), as well as limited-access files at the post
office, to get the location of voters. They accomplished this with astonishing
accuracy — something the state of Georgia should have done.
The result: GregPalast.com has a list of 340,134 voters who never moved an
inch. Kemp has sent them no notice — none — but they have lost their right to
vote.
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