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Georgia NAACP: Some votes for Abrams are initially being changed to Kemp

Georgia NAACP: Some votes for Abrams are initially being changed to Kemp
BY ARIS FOLLEY - 10/24/18 03:24 PM EDT


The Georgia NAACP reportedly filed complaints with the Georgia secretary of state saying some voting machines have been registering ballots cast for gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) as votes for her GOP opponent, Brian Kemp.

The civil rights chapter shared documents with USA Today that allege certain voting machines in Bartow County and Dodge County have failed to initially register the votes correctly.

"We’ve experienced this before," Phyllis Blake, president of the Georgia NAACP, told the publication. “They ended up taking these old dilapidated machines out of service. The ones giving the problems. They should have been replaced about 10 years ago."

Blake told the publication she intends to file two more complaints involving similar issues in both Henry County and Cobb County. The complaints filed so far were on behalf of eight voters.

Pamela Grimes, one of those eight voters, told USA Today that she tried to cast a vote for Abrams several times at a polling site in Bartow County before the machine allowed her to unmark the box for Kemp and vote for Abrams.

“I was not going to leave until everything was the way I wanted it,’’ Grimes said. “If I had not been focused, my vote would have went for him.”

She added that she has since warned other voters “to pay attention at the polls."

Dexter Benning, a Democratic member of the Bartow Board of Elections and Voter Registration, told the publication he raised concerns about voting machines with an election supervisor who said some machines may have a problem calibrating votes because they are older.

Benning reportedly used the same voting machine and told USA Today that he had to repeatedly touch the screen in order to make sure it registered the correct candidate.

“We’re telling people just to check it,” Benning said. “We’re also telling them to check and make sure they haven’t been purged from the voting rolls.”

He also said that with the recent controversy over voting concerns in the hotly contested governor's race between Abrams and Kemp, who is Georgia's current secretary of state, the last thing “we need to have is a problem with the machines."

The report comes as complaints of voter suppression efforts, particularly affecting black voters, are garnering national attention.

Abrams would become the first black woman in U.S. history to serve as a state governor.

Civil rights advocates have raised questions during the campaign over Kemp's voter management as head of the state’s election system, including a dispute over the state's "exact match law" that led to 53,000 voter registration applications, a majority of which came from black voters, being placed on hold.

Kemp’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from The Hill, but his office denied efforts to suppress the vote in a statement to USA Today.

"If warranted, our office will open a formal investigation on behalf of the State Election Board," Kemp Candice Broce spokeswoman told the publication. "We always encourage voters to reach out to our office if they experience any issues or witness any suspicious activity at the polls."

Abrams’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

 

[The ADD]

Flim fukking Flam

 

[Koba St]

Don’t the democrats have reps at these stations to ensure things are done correctly?

 

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Federal Judge Hammers Ga. Secretary of State Brian Kemp Over Alleged Voter Disenfranchisement Scheme


Federal Judge Hammers Ga. Secretary of State Brian Kemp Over Alleged Voter Disenfranchisement Scheme

by Colin Kalmbacher | 4:49 pm, October 24th, 2018

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order which blocks election officials in Georgia from discarding absentee ballots or voter registration applications over mismatched signatures.

U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May issued the 31-page ruling late Wednesday afternoon in response to a lawsuit filed by American Civil Liberties Union attorneys on behalf of the Georgia Muslim Voter Project and Asian-Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta.

The voting rights organizations sued Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp for his office’s attempts to reject several hundred absentee voter ballots and absentee voter registration applications over allegations that signatures on those applications were not an exact match for voter signatures on file. (This is a distinct and separate issue from Kemp’s office indefinitely suspending in excess of 53,000 regular–and predominantly African American–voter registration applications.)

The opinion notes the signature mismatch procedure at work in Georgia:

When an absentee ballot is received, the county registrar or absentee ballot clerk must determine if the applicant is eligible to vote in the relevant primary or election by comparing the applicant’s identifying information on file with the registrar’s office. If the elector signed the application, the registrar must compare the elector’s application signature to the elector’s voter registration card signature. If the registrar determines that the signatures do not match, the clerk or the board of registrars “shall deny the application…”

Judge May also notes one of the more controversial sticking points [emphasis added]:

While there is no procedure by which an elector can contest the registrar’s decision, the statutes do not prevent an elector whose application is rejected from applying a second time or voting in person.

If and when they are accepted by county registrars, absentee ballots are subject to a similar signature mismatch procedure for a second time–as well as several onerous requirements for accepting the ballot generally. Judge May describes the apparent incongruity in how these two issues are handled.

The opinion continues:

There is no procedure by which an elector can contest a registrar’s decision that the signatures do not match. By contrast, an elector whose absentee ballot is rejected on grounds that the elector is unqualified to vote is provided with notice, a hearing “on an expedited basis prior to the certification of the consolidated returns of the election,” and given an opportunity to appeal to the board of registrars, as well as further opportunity for judicial appeal.

The plaintiffs sued on the grounds that the above-referenced provisions were a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to substantive due process and requested an injunction halting Georgia from tossing such ballots and voter registration applications. Judge May agreed.

And the judge had some choice words for Georgia’s secretary of state.

“Preliminarily, the Court does not understand how assuring that all eligible voters are permitted to vote undermines integrity of the election process,” May notes. “To the contrary, it strengthens it. Defendants argue that signature mismatch rejection is ‘rare’…ut that…only bolsters Plaintiffs’ argument that any additional, constitutionally mandated processes will not be an administrative burden.”

“Plaintiffs are entitled to an injunction on the signature mismatch issue,” May concludes.

 

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Cobb and Henry County

Probably because BP gettin their numbers up in both SMH