Georgia's Governor Deputized GOP Vigilantes to Challenge 149,000 Voters
Black voters in Georgia say the challenges issued by vigilantes amount to a racist poll tax and a new Jim Crow.
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Black voters in Georgia say the challenges issued by vigilantes amount to a racist poll tax and a new Jim Crow.
When we first reported that handing a slice of pizza to a voter waiting three hours in a line is now a felony in Georgia, other media quickly picked up the story, highlighting the cruelty of Georgia Republicans making predominantly Black voters suffer from hunger and thirst in lines the GOP deliberately made long by closing polling stations in majority-Black precincts. But the food-in-line prohibition is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to horrific provisions hidden in the 95 pages of Georgiaâs new anti-voting law. Donald Trump infamously demanded the Georgia secretary of state ...
He said the list of voters didn't distinguish between permanent and temporary change of address, which is a division that can be found from the National Change of Law Address Registry. Additionally, tinkering with the list cannot be done this soon before the Jan. 5, 2021, Senate runoff elections, he said, referring to conditions in the National Voter Registration Act. In an emailed statement, Shepherd told The Epoch Times that the county board "utterly failed in its duty to keep elections in Cobb secure by refusing to investigate whether any of the over 16,000 voters who have filled out and ...
Georgia County Elections Board Dismisses Challenges to Voter Roll Challenges to more than 16,000 people on the voter registration list in a Georgia county have been dismissed by an elections board. The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration voted on Dec. 18 to dismiss three complaints that sought to remove voters from the compilation. Jason Shepherd, the chairman of the Republican Party in the county, told the board that he found evidence of approximately 16,024 people registered to vote in the county who reside outside of Georgia. The information was gathered by running the countyâ€...