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napi21

(45,806 posts)
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 03:13 PM Jul 2017

Did you know Brian Kemp, who is the guy who is heading Crosscheck in Georgia. is the successor

Secretary of State to Karen Handel! He has already sent out thousands of tri-fold postcards telling Ga. voters they must sign & return the card confirming their address or they will be removed from the voting rolls. He's in the process of sending out around 79,000 postcards to Georgia voters who fit their profile...common black sur-name (like John Brown) Hispanic sur-name, Asian sur-name.

Kris Kobach is working out of the White House now from what I hear. One of the tricks he is doing is that a SOS of a State sends HIM their voter list and he does a crosscheck with the national list for "matching names" and returns a Crosscheck list to that SOS.


The link below is a blog from Greg Palast explaining some of the activities of this STOP AMERICANS FROM VOTING program they're running.

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/behind-thuggish-assault-on-greg-palast-covering-up-new-jim-crow-voter-suppression

IF YOU KNOW ANYONE IN GEORGIA PLEASE WARS THEM NOT TO THROW THIS CARD AWAY. It apparently is made to look liked junk mail!!!

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SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
1. Who can keep up with their insanity?
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 03:25 PM
Jul 2017

Their only goal is to suppress the votes of potential Democratic voters. What can be done to reverse their actions, increase the number of polling places and keep polling places open for longer hours? It seems like such a no brainer to me. Can't the Dems in Congress do something about it or are we just screwed?

AJT

(5,240 posts)
2. Isn't there a case to be made for discrimination?
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 03:35 PM
Jul 2017

If the crosscheck list doesn't includes all names on a states voter roles then the question should be "how were the names selected?" and "why were common European names excluded?".

napi21

(45,806 posts)
4. Probably not. They'd claim those people were on the list because their name, or one like it,
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 03:41 PM
Jul 2017

appeared on more than one location.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
7. Of course there, but they're saying unless all the John Smiths each verify they are separate people
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 11:02 PM
Jul 2017

they will assume they're all the same person and remove them all from the respectve voter rolls.

AJT

(5,240 posts)
8. But they aren't looking at John Smith, they are only
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 08:16 AM
Jul 2017

looking at hispanic and "black sounding" names. Isn't that discrimination? Why aren't tjey doing the crosscheck on European(white) names?

napi21

(45,806 posts)
3. I don't think Congresss can help because voting is aSttate controlled issue, BUT maybe the DOJ
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 03:37 PM
Jul 2017

or the FBI could, IF WE CAN EVER GET A TRUSTWORTHY AG! They DID intervene in the local police shootings as the top cops in the country.

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
6. I wonder how many returned cards will magically end up in the trash dump?
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 04:39 PM
Jul 2017

"IF YOU KNOW ANYONE IN GEORGIA PLEASE WARS THEM NOT TO THROW THIS CARD AWAY. It apparently is made to look liked junk mail!!! "
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