75,000 Voter Registration Cards Found in Trash Bin in Atlanta

[Heather MC]

75,000 Voter Registration Cards Found in Trash Bin in Atlanta

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ATLANTA (AP) --
The Georgia Secretary of State's office has begun an investigation into who threw more than 75,000 Fulton County voter registration cards into a trash bin.
The cards contained a voter's full name, address and Social Security number. The office says a random sampling showed many of the cards were for active voters. In a statement, Secretary of State Karen Handel said the finding "represents a significant and serious breach of the personal information of Fulton County voters and an outrageous violation of the trust and integrity of Fulton County's elections." After getting a call from a resident, officials with Handel's office found more than 30 boxes of voter registration application cards, precinct cards and other documents Monday in a construction trash bin at Atlanta Technical College in southwest Atlanta. Handel has called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the county solicitor general's office to investigate and says she will audit the county elections office. Handel says she also has asked the County Commission to warn voters that their personal information may have been exposed.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/georgia/news-article.aspx?storyid=79939

Edit:
Sorry I didn't realize this was a year old
oppsie, still sucks

[ecstatic]

1. wtf...

:mad: :wtf:

[roguevalley]

16. what now, Atlanta? will they do anything about it? will they put the

forms through? Jeez, I hate this crap.

[skooooo]

2. I hope that's all that was missing...

:scared:

[Tansy_Gold]

3. page not found at that link

???

[Patsy Stone]

4. This is very not good.

:mad:

[Thrill]

5. what a surprise. of course this happens in Democratic counties

[BrklynLiberal]

6. and does this also mean that those folks were not registered??

This is starting to smell really rotten!!!!

[NYC_SKP]

7. ***LINK*** Repaired link to article here:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/georgia/news-article.aspx?storyid=79939

:patriot:

[Patsy Stone]

12. This is a year old?

Hmmm...

[NYC_SKP]

13. April 14, 2007. Alternative Original Link Here:

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/75000-voter-registration-cards-found-in-trash-in-atlanta

:shrug:

[SweetieD]

8. holy crap!

[Tansy_Gold]

9. This "news" is apparently from April 2007

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=33575

[Indi Guy]

19. You are correct...

I'll post to the Original Message...

[KathieG]

10. Oh Jesus.

[brer cat]

11. Someone doesn't like that GA is in play.

Fulton County has Atlanta....VERY BLUE.

[zonkers]

14. Yo, OP, this subject line is a bit misleading, don't you think?

I mean, the story is from 07.

[Number23]

18. It is???

I mean, the story is from 07.

Okay, then somebody just riled me up for nothing!

[barack the house]

15. Well that means folks need to convert 75,000 repubs to Bob Barr that'd do it.

[Number23]

17. For those who don't know, Fulton County is HEAVILY black

Fulton County is one of the most segregated areas in the country. I grew up there. I didn't know a white person my own age until I started undergrad.

It's also where several Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) are located i.e. Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. Throwing out 75K Fulton Country registrations means that EASILY 50K black folks' registrations just got thrown in the trash.

[Indi Guy]

20. Honest mistake. Next time post as if you had to pass LBN style scrutiny...

[jazzjunkysue]

21. keep it kicked: This is not the end of this cheating