50,000 Democratic voter registrations in Georgia mysteriously dissapear
 

http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...gia-elections/

ATLANTA, GEORGIA?A court could decide any day now whether tens of thousands of Georgia voters can cast a ballot this November, a choice that could sway the outcome of the state?s neck-and-neck races for Governor and Senator.

Earlier this year, organizers fanned out across nearly every one of Georgia?s 159 counties and registered nearly 90 thousand people who have never voted in their lives, most of them people of color, many of them under 25 years old. But when the groups checked back in late August, comparing their registration database to the state?s public one, they noticed about 50,000 of the registrations had vanished, nearly all of them belonging to people of color in the Democratic-leaning regions around Atlanta, Savannah and Columbus.

Georgia?s state minority leader Stacy Abrams (D), whose group The New Georgia Project led the massive registration drive in March and April, told ThinkProgress what happened next was ?deeply disturbing.?

?We asked the Secretary of State to meet with us. We wanted to understand if we were doing something wrong, or if there was another database we didn?t have access to. But he refused to meet with us,? she said.

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A Rouge employee :2 cents:

There were shenanigans like this in 2000 in Florida as well. There were a number of cases, some that were eventually brought to court, where the secretary of state purged too many people from the voter list. Her job was to go through and removed convicted felons from the lists since they weren't allowed to vote. In many cases she actually removed the felon and all of their family members "accidentally."

That election was an eye opener for me. Up until then I thought our votes were treated as if they were like gold...but the bullshit in Florida showed the entire nation differently.

The political right knows its days are numbered and are past the point where they can win elections based on the strength of their ideas. So, they resort to anything they can to stymie the democratic process and make it as hard to vote as possible. The fact that tens of thousands of new voter registrations can disappear with no explanation is highly disturbing and possibly criminal.

This + the Sec. of State for GA. refusing to meet with activist/citizens/his employers.

I guess none of these people realize they are public, not political party, servants.