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Saturday, October 27th, 2018

Georgia’s Kemp Purged 340,134 Voters, Falsely Asserting They Had Moved

Author:     Greg Palast
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     October 26, 2018
 Link: Georgia’s Kemp Purged 340,134 Voters, Falsely Asserting They Had Moved
Stephan:   I keep telling you Republicans don't like democracy and do anything they can to undermine its substance even while prattling on about protecting its form. Where are my facts to back up such a statement? Well, here is a small part of that evidence. I frankly do not understand why Brian Kemp is not in jail, nor how he could possibly be running for public office while at the same time he is doing everything he can to rig the election. Where is the state legislature in all this? The answer, of course, is that a majority of legislators are Republicans, and so complicit in Kemp's assault on democracy in Georgia. Even worse some large but unknown number of Georgians are perfectly okay with what Kemp and the legislature are doing.

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 […]

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