Republicans may be about to steal an election in Georgia

[workinclasszero]

By Paul Waldman October 11 at 12:27 PM

It isn’t often you get to watch an election being stolen in real time, but that might be what is happening right now in Georgia.

When it comes to the nationwide, comprehensive, carefully planned Republican effort to suppress the votes of people who are likely to vote Democratic, particularly racial minorities, there is a menu of techniques Republicans employ — voter ID laws, voter purges, limiting early voting, closing polling places in heavily minority neighborhoods, and racial and partisan gerrymandering.

But what Brian Kemp is doing right now is truly unique.

Kemp, the Republican nominee for governor, is locked in an extremely tight race with Democrat Stacey Abrams. He also happens to be the secretary of state, the official in charge of all elections in Georgia. You might expect him to step down or recuse himself from overseeing his own election in the interest of fairness and public confidence that the fix is not in, but that’s not how Republicans do things. Kemp isn’t just overseeing the process, he’s apparently also doing everything he can to keep as many Democrats as possible from the polls in November.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/11/republicans-may-be-about-to-steal-an-election-in-georgia/

[Gothmog]

1. Georgia NAACP readies lawsuit against Kemp over voter registration

This is the first of a couple of lawsuits to be filed https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/11/georgia-naacp-voter-registration-lawsuit-842679

The Georgia NAACP is preparing to sue Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican nominee for governor, in response to a report that Kemp's office has put on hold tens of thousands of voter registration applications, most of them from African-Americans, ahead of the election.

The injunction would seek to reopen voter registration in Georgia to ensure that 53,000 registrants on hold in Kemp's office — and possibly others affected by an outage of the Georgia Department of Driver Services and the state's voter registration website — would be allowed to register for the upcoming election.

The move was confirmed by to two people with knowledge of the NAACP of Georgia's plans. The last day to register to vote was Tuesday.

The strict policies enforced by Kemp's office for voter registration and verification have been under scrutiny in his campaign against Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, who once ran a nonprofit focused on registering new voters.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Good. What he is trying to pull is really disgusting.

He's note even trying to hide his shitbaggery.

If the Secretary of State wants to run for Governor, or any other office representing the state, he/she should be required to step down from as SofS. That should be the law for every state.

[roamer65]

2. No "may"...they are attempting to steal it.

[workinclasszero]

11. You are right

No doubt about it

[diva77]

4. Rethug SOSs running for office have a habit of not recusing themselves , e.g. KKKobach

On top of that, in GA they're still using the easily rigged paperless DREs.

Dems need to show up in double-landslide numbers to have a chance at this one.

[Gothmog]

5. The Lawyers Committee has also filed a lawsuit

Link to tweet

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. wonder how Beery Brett would rule

These things generally percolate to the SCOTUS, right?

[lpbk2713]

6. One other dirty trick rethugs like to use ...

They like to spread rumors in strongly black districts that law enforcement will be at the polls looking for people with outstanding warrants and for people who may be in arrears in child support payments. They have done it in Florida before.

[Gothmog]

8. Lawsuit filed

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

9. Abrams demands GOP's Kemp resign as Georgia secretary of state

Link to tweet

[diva77]

10. YES!!!! (altho. rethugs will shrug off the demand most likely)