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Ga Rethugs are trying to disenfranchise Democratic voters in run-up to Ossoff's run-off.
Civil Rights Groups Just Busted Georgia Republicans Rigging Runoff Election
By Sheila Norton
Published on April 21, 2017
Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, is trying to prevent newly registered voters from participating in the 6th Congressional District runoff election between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel, and at least five groups are suing to stop him.
The National Voter Registration Act clearly states that the earliest deadline for voter registration is 30 days before a federal election. With the runoff election set for June 20, however, Kemp has declared that 6th District residents will only be eligible to vote if registered by March 20 — 92 days before the election, or 62 days longer than legally permitted.
Election officials in Georgia claim that they are justified in disenfranchising voters who registered in that 62-day window because the runoff is not a new election but a continuation of this week’s special election. The Lawyers’ Committee is among the many organizations that vehemently disagree.
The case is actually a very, very simple case,” said Ezra Rosenberg, co-director of the group’s voting rights project “Federal law specifically defines elections as including runoff elections.”
Rosenberg is right. The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, defines an election with the same language used in the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act: “a general, special, primary, or runoff election.”
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http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/04/21/civil-rights-groups-just-busted-georgia-republicans-rigging-runoff-election/
By Sheila Norton
Published on April 21, 2017
Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, is trying to prevent newly registered voters from participating in the 6th Congressional District runoff election between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel, and at least five groups are suing to stop him.
The National Voter Registration Act clearly states that the earliest deadline for voter registration is 30 days before a federal election. With the runoff election set for June 20, however, Kemp has declared that 6th District residents will only be eligible to vote if registered by March 20 — 92 days before the election, or 62 days longer than legally permitted.
Election officials in Georgia claim that they are justified in disenfranchising voters who registered in that 62-day window because the runoff is not a new election but a continuation of this week’s special election. The Lawyers’ Committee is among the many organizations that vehemently disagree.
The case is actually a very, very simple case,” said Ezra Rosenberg, co-director of the group’s voting rights project “Federal law specifically defines elections as including runoff elections.”
Rosenberg is right. The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, defines an election with the same language used in the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act: “a general, special, primary, or runoff election.”
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http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/04/21/civil-rights-groups-just-busted-georgia-republicans-rigging-runoff-election/
They are cheaters and criminals. Will do anything to fix an election. And they have the fat little turd in the WH cheering them on.
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