Georgia plans to cancel over 300,000 voter registrations

[mfcorey1]

The move comes ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The state will also have an unusual "double-barreled" Senate contest, with both of its seats up for grabs at the same time.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office said that it plans to send notices to voters who have been inactive for the past couple of elections and the notice will come with a paid return postage to give voters the opportunity to remain active. People have 30 days to return the notice.

Walter Jones, communications director for the office's voter education project, told NBC News that the number of potential cancellations constitutes roughly 4 percent of Georgians on the voter rolls.

"This is not an outstanding number, relatively speaking," he said. "Registration is considered inactive if there has no interaction with the registration system."

The 2018 gubernatorial election between now-Gov. Brian Kemp, the Republican secretary of state at the time, and Democrat Stacey Abrams was roiled by accusations of voter registration purges and suppression. Kemp won by less than 2 percent. Also, in July 2017, Georgia canceled more than 530,000 registration — the largest in state history, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-plans-to-cancel-over-300000-voter-registrations/ar-AAJylZx?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[exboyfil]

1. Are they going to make the notice look like a piece of junk mail

Fundraising documents that look like official US census requests.

Important voter registration documents that look like junk mail.

GOP of today.

[beachbumbob]

2. we voters are responsible for we being currently registered. This is not an uncommon practice

where the voting records are "purged" of inactive voters after so many years and/or elections.

No longer can any of us sit back and assume some one else is going to watch out for us being registered.

[MineralMan]

5. If the state is selectively removing voter registrations,

though, it could be a nefarious sort of thing, don't you think. It would be very easy, as I point out in a reply below, to use zip codes and demographic information to focus on voters of color for removal. Now, doesn't that sound like something a state like Georgia might do?

Look more closely at such efforts, and you'll find the fox hanging around the chicken coop.

[spanone]

3. THIS is what republicans do.

[MineralMan]

4. I wonder if Georgia is using ZIP codes as a filter in their

effort to purge voter registrations. That would be an easy way to selectively purge voters of color. I'll bet that's part of their algorithm.

Filthy scoundrels!

[ananda]

6. I wonder if Georgians are aware of this ..

.. and about to do something about it!

Stacy Abrams? Where are you on this?

Eric Holder?

?????