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Indiana Caught Illegally Purging 20,000 Voters – Are You One?
Check the Purge List and Re-Register

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Greg Palast

Indiana has purged no less than 20,000 voters in violation of a federal court order. Are you one? Check right now.

If you’re on the list, reregister immediately.

A team of database experts, statisticians, lawyers and investigators working with the Palast Investigative Fund discovered — and Indiana now admits — that these thousands of voters were cancelled in violation of a June 2018 federal court order that barred the state from using the notorious Interstate Crosscheck purge list sent to state officials by Kris Kobach, Secretary of State of Kansas.

The court order stemmed from a suit by the NAACP and League of Woman Voters against a 2017 Indiana law ordering counties to remove voters if they appear on Kobach’s list which purports to identify voters who have left the state. The NAACP and League cited the Palast team’s evidence in our 2016 Rolling Stone article showing that Crosscheck is overwhelmingly wrong in identifying voters who have moved — and extremely racist in operation.

Altogether, Indiana cancelled the registrations of a mind-boggling 469,000 voters, the majority using suspect methods.

The problems, say our experts, go way beyond the violation of the federal court order. A name-by-name analysis indicates the vast majority of the nearly half million purged remain Indiana residents who should not have lost their rights..

The Palast Investigative Fund, which obtained the list after sending a formal notice that, unless Indiana opens its files, the state will be hauled into another federal suit under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Indiana is one of 26 states receiving notice of suit resulting in a flood of responses now being analyzed by our investigations team.

Admission of violation of the court ruling
Rachel Garbus, researcher with Mirer Mazzocchi & Julien, our New York based attorneys, asked a top Indiana official for the reason our database experts found 27,000 voters purged whose names appeared on the Crosscheck list of voters who allegedly left the state. Post Office files indicate only 7,000 of them have moved.

The official agreed that the only reasonable explanation was a violation of the court order against using Crosscheck, though he considered the error inadvertent.

“I’m just speculating, but it is possible that some counties used the 2017 legislation so were cancelling voters using that method.”

Asked if this violated the federal court order, the official, whose name we are withholding, stated: “Yes, I’m not sure, but the county elections officials follow the law, so if that’s what the law said, then it’s possible that’s what they were doing.”

The official’s “speculation” is doubtless correct as there is no other explanation for the wrongful purge of over 20,000 citizens other than a violation of the court order overturning that 2017 law.

The Palast team and our lawyers are considering our next steps.

In the meantime, we will continue to release purge lists as states surrender to our lawsuit threat (after they have been analyzed and prepared for public review).

I am sorry that many lists are on the last days of registration or after the final date. We have been demanding this data for several months.

https://www.gregpalast.com/indiana-caught-illegally-purging-20000-voters-are-you-one/


October 10, 2018 - 04:07 PM EDT

53K voter registration applications on hold in Georgia: report

BY EMILY BIRNBAUM

More than 53,000 voter registration applications, a majority of them from black voters, are on hold in Georgia one month before the midterm election, according to a new Associated Press report, as the battle over voter registration becomes a bigger issue in the state's heated governor's race.

Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams and voting rights groups are blaming her opponent in the race, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, over the hold up.

Kemp's office oversees elections in Georgia, and she argues he has enacted policies meant to suppress minority votes.

Kemp contends that Abrams and liberal groups are playing political games a month before the election.

A spokeswoman from Kemp's office told The Hill that the applications are being held due to the state's "exact match" law, which passed last year. The law requires an applicant's information to match exactly what is listed by the state's Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration.

According to the legislation, if an applicant’s information on a voter registration form results does not match the information in a federal or state database, the applicant’s status is "pending."

If an application is marked as "pending," the voter registration database produces a letter, giving the applicant 26 months to provide up-to-date information. Applicants who have been flagged can mail in a copy of "eligible identification" or present it at the polls.

Voting rights advocates have claimed Kemp's "exact match" law discriminates against black and minority voters. They point to the racial makeup of the list of stalled voter registration applications, which is 70 percent black, according to AP.

Georgia's population is about 32 percent black, according to U.S. census data.

Abrams in an appearance in August on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” called Kemp “a remarkable architect of voter suppression.”

Kemp says less than 1 percent of applications failed verification and were held up.

Kemp's campaign spokesman Ryan Mahoney said in a statement to the AP that because of Kemp, “it has never been easier to vote in our state.”

“Kemp is fighting to protect the integrity of our elections and ensure that only legal citizens cast a ballot,” he added.

Kemp also blames a voter registration project launched by Abrams for racial disparities on the list of voter registration applications.

He told the AP that the New Georgia Project, which Abrams headed as Georgia House minority leader in 2013, was disorganized when it sought to register large swaths of the state's population.

The New Georgia Project targeted black voters.

Kemp's office said the disparity could be explained by "the higher usage of one method of registration among one particular demographic group," according to the AP.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia in August accused one of the state's counties of trying to make it harder for African-Americans to vote when the Randolph County elections board closed seven of its nine polling locations.

Abrams is the first African-American woman to be nominated by a major party to run for governor. The two are running in a tight race, considered a "toss-up," according to a RealClearPolitics average of polling data.

This story was updated 10:45 p.m.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/410839-53k-georgia-voter-registration-applications-on-hold-in-kemps-office-report
 

toguy5252

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The GOP like to talk about promoting democracy in other countries while dismantling it at home.
 

oldjones

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The GOP like to talk about promoting democracy in other countries while dismantling it at home.
If you're focusing on making sure people don't vote, then it isn't democracy.

In any real democracy you do whatever you can to ensure that every voter qualified by age, citizenship and place of residence gets to vote. Stuff like registration and photo ID are mere technical conveniences that should assist that process, not substitute for it to limit access to the polls.
 

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Voting Rights Group Appeals Latest Ohio Voter Purge Ruling

A voting-rights group has appealed a federal judge's ruling that again said voters haven't been illegally purged from Ohio's rolls.

Oct. 13, 2018, at 8:54 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A voting-rights group has appealed a federal judge's ruling that again said voters haven't been illegally purged from Ohio's rolls.

Lawyers for the A. Phillip Randolph Institute asked the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to allow purged voters to cast ballots next month and that no additional voters be removed until the appeal is resolved.

Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted (HYOO'-sted) said after a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Ohio's favor that no additional voters would be removed before the Nov. 6 election.

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that a stopgap system allowing affected voters to vote provisionally was no longer needed.

Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2018-10-13/voting-rights-group-appeals-latest-ohio-voter-purge-ruling
 

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Georgia just stopped a bus filled with elderly Black voters from reaching the polls

BY NATALIE DICKINSON

PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 15, 2018

Faced with the harsh reality that the Republican Party and its appalling platform of open racism, xenophobia, and plutocratic nihilism is enormously unpopular with the vast majority of Americans, the GOP has elected to cheat in order to try to ward off the consequences of public backlash at the ballot box.

This strategy has taken the form of major voter suppression campaigns by Republican state officials, mostly by using bureaucratic tricks to kick hundreds of thousands of likely Democratic voters — like the poor, students, and minorities — off the voting rolls, making it more difficult to vote in the first place with restrictive voter I.D. laws, and by closing the polling stations entirely.

But sometimes that just isn’t enough, and the instruments of state violence are used to literally stop people from going to vote.

A group of 40 or so senior African-Americans were boarding a bus chartered by nonpartisan electoral activist group Black Votes Matter this morning in Louisville, Georgia, to take them to the polls for early voting.

But somebody was aghast at the sight of African-Americans going to the polls and decided to call the county commissioner and complain,claiming that the bus didn’t have the proper “license” to drive people to the polls.

The bus did not need a “proper license” to drive people to the polls.

To clarify, no special license is needed to drive people to the polls. But Black Voters Matter was told someone complained to the county commissioner and they didn’t want to cause trouble in this small town.

— Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) October 15, 2018

The Black Voters Matter called off the trip today because “they didn’t want to cause any trouble in the small town,” but the organizers decried the interference as**“live voter suppression.”

The police were not involved and the county commissioner’s office has denied that any complaints were made.

“This is voter suppression, Southern style. I’m very upset. I’m angry. I’m frustrated. I’ve got a lot of emotions right now. Even in the absence of law, they will use tactics like intimidation and voter suppression. Somebody called the county commission, but there was nothing illegal or inappropriate” complained BlackVotesMatter cpo-founder LaTosha Brown.

The woman who aims to be Georgia’s first Black governor, Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams is locked in a tight race against Republican Brian Kemp, the current Secretary of State who has taken a vicious beating in the press after it was discovered that his office just blocked 53,000 voters — 70% of them African-American — from registering to vote.

The importance of voting has never been more clear than it is in this upcoming mid-term election — which is why the Republican Party and their racist supporters are doing everything they can to keep people from exercising their rights. It’s up to us to donate, canvass, and phonebank as hard as we can to make sure the blue wave retakes Congress and starts to fix the awful mess that Trump and his cronies have left this country in.

You can support BlackVotesMatter here.

You can donate to Stacey Abrams here.

Original reporting by Kira Lerner at ThinkProgress.

An earlier title to this article incorrectly stated that Georgia police were involved in the removal of people from the bus and has been updated accordingly.

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/10/15/georgia-police-just-stopped-a-bus-filled-with-elderly-black-voters-from-reaching-the-polls/
 

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Georgia just stopped a bus filled with elderly Black voters from reaching the polls

BY NATALIE DICKINSON

PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 15, 2018

Faced with the harsh reality that the Republican Party and its appalling platform of open racism, xenophobia, and plutocratic nihilism is enormously unpopular with the vast majority of Americans, the GOP has elected to cheat in order to try to ward off the consequences of public backlash at the ballot box.

This strategy has taken the form of major voter suppression campaigns by Republican state officials, mostly by using bureaucratic tricks to kick hundreds of thousands of likely Democratic voters — like the poor, students, and minorities — off the voting rolls, making it more difficult to vote in the first place with restrictive voter I.D. laws, and by closing the polling stations entirely.

But sometimes that just isn’t enough, and the instruments of state violence are used to literally stop people from going to vote.

A group of 40 or so senior African-Americans were boarding a bus chartered by nonpartisan electoral activist group Black Votes Matter this morning in Louisville, Georgia, to take them to the polls for early voting.

But somebody was aghast at the sight of African-Americans going to the polls and decided to call the county commissioner and complain,claiming that the bus didn’t have the proper “license” to drive people to the polls.

The bus did not need a “proper license” to drive people to the polls.

To clarify, no special license is needed to drive people to the polls. But Black Voters Matter was told someone complained to the county commissioner and they didn’t want to cause trouble in this small town.

— Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) October 15, 2018

The Black Voters Matter called off the trip today because “they didn’t want to cause any trouble in the small town,” but the organizers decried the interference as**“live voter suppression.”

The police were not involved and the county commissioner’s office has denied that any complaints were made.

“This is voter suppression, Southern style. I’m very upset. I’m angry. I’m frustrated. I’ve got a lot of emotions right now. Even in the absence of law, they will use tactics like intimidation and voter suppression. Somebody called the county commission, but there was nothing illegal or inappropriate” complained BlackVotesMatter cpo-founder LaTosha Brown.

The woman who aims to be Georgia’s first Black governor, Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams is locked in a tight race against Republican Brian Kemp, the current Secretary of State who has taken a vicious beating in the press after it was discovered that his office just blocked 53,000 voters — 70% of them African-American — from registering to vote.

The importance of voting has never been more clear than it is in this upcoming mid-term election — which is why the Republican Party and their racist supporters are doing everything they can to keep people from exercising their rights. It’s up to us to donate, canvass, and phonebank as hard as we can to make sure the blue wave retakes Congress and starts to fix the awful mess that Trump and his cronies have left this country in.

You can support BlackVotesMatter here.

You can donate to Stacey Abrams here.

Original reporting by Kira Lerner at ThinkProgress.

An earlier title to this article incorrectly stated that Georgia police were involved in the removal of people from the bus and has been updated accordingly.

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/10/15/georgia-police-just-stopped-a-bus-filled-with-elderly-black-voters-from-reaching-the-polls/
So police were not involved and the CC office says it didn't happen.

What stopped them?
 
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