Georgia county tosses out hundreds of minority absentee ballots
Source: CNN
One suburban Georgia county has become a flashpoint for concerns over voter suppression for rejecting hundreds of mail-in absentee ballots weeks before Election Day.
Gwinnett County, located northeast of Atlanta, now faces two federal lawsuits and accusations from voting rights activists who say the rejections disproportionately affect minority voters, particularly Asian Americans and African Americans.
The county has rejected 595 absentee ballots, which account for more than a third of the total absentee-ballot rejections in the state, even though Gwinnett County accounts for only about 6% of absentee ballots submitted in Georgia, according to state data analyzed by CNN Friday. More than 300 of the rejected ballots belonged to African Americans and Asian Americans.
Officials tossed out the ballots due to missing birthdates, address discrepancies, signatures that do not match those on registration records and other issues, according to the data.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/20/politics/gwinnett-county-absentee-ballots/index.html
iluvtennis
(19,874 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)aggiesal
(8,924 posts)which could change the election.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)The Repukes are playing a game of "run out the clock." They figure that since the courts are reluctant to get involved in stuff like counting the votes so close to the election, they will just do their nefarious deeds in plain sight and get away with it. Like with Kavanaugh, the only important thing to Repukes is winning. Isn't that the way Donnie Two Shoes described K.'s confirmation? "It doesn't matter how we did it, we won!"
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)Once they had actual boots on the ground.
He was obviously a Bush supporter as well. I tried to google this but couldn't find the exact quote. But it was something like "We're here now" (implying any kind of opposition is now moot so shut up)
Its maddening that they can get away with these things. They take advantage of the fact that in politics, the world changes so fast. And so to with news coverage. Sadly, we won't even be talking about the Kavanaugh debacle by next month. Even if there weren't mid terms.
If there are no new stories to distract the media, the GOP and Trump simply make up stories or controversies, or CTs, or baseless accusations, or something else. And the press, follows the new stories around like puppies.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)With Trump and his motley crew having control of the laser:
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)one would get an impression that all red states are in a competition to see who can come up with the most sinister and cruel methods.
Perhaps their winner gets free memberships at Mar-a-Lago.........
In view of a compliant GOP-majority Congress and pResident, only our courts and Nov. 6th can save us......
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)Maeve
(42,288 posts)IIRC, most if not all states have some way to track if your ballot has been accepted and it has reached the point where you have to follow up to make sure you vote counts. (I vote absentee, and Ohio sends me an e-mail telling me whether it was accepted or not. Once I got it bounced for not putting my birthdate on it, but I vote early enough that I had plenty of time to get my second chance in. And yes, this cycle's ballot has already been accepted.)
shanti
(21,675 posts)all we have to do is sign and date it.