DOJ spikes Ga. voter citizenship checks again

[derby378]

Maybe this is already old news, but I'm loving this...

The U.S. Department of Justice has for the second time rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens.

The Justice Department first rejected Georgia's request for preclearance for the checks in May. The state asked the department in August to reconsider that rejection.

In a letter sent to Georgia Deputy Attorney General Dennis Dunn on Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez said the state's August request contains so many changes to the original voter registration verification process that it constitutes "a new change affecting voting that the state desires to implement."

"I remain unable to conclude that the State of Georgia has carried its burden of showing that the original voter registration verification program has neither a discriminatory purpose nor a discriminatory effect," Perez wrote.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/ga/story/875653.html

[ccharles000]

1. k/r

[truedelphi]

2. Thank you for posting this.

The negotiated settlement that was last year's election does not offer anyting in terms of guaranteeing free elections here.

We still have many FBI agents, and many DOJ bureaucrats who were installed during the Bush/Cheney regime of terror.

One main purpose for the B/C re-structuring of the United States Attorneys, and of the DOJ and the FBI, was so that elections can continue to be controlled. I spent two years trying to file a complait against a Marin County Election official who had committed a felony -- but there was no mechanism available under the B/C regime to do so.

State by state, we have onerous laws in place. We have Registrars of Voters in the majority of Counties across the entire nation who are answering only to the call of HAVA. What is being done to dismantle the B/C destruction of our free elections? (At least, what is being done in terms of voter registration and vote counting - though an even larger and better question is how can elections be free when most of all the candidates on the Senatorial and Presiidential campaign slates are Corporate Candidates?)

[dccrossman]

3. K&R

:kick:

As someone who lives in GA, it's great to see this get slapped down. Again.