Georgia planning to cut voter rolls by 100,000

[Samm]

@WuWei

@westaussie

Is one able to vote if one is not on the electoral roll?

One can register and vote at the same time on election day.

And in some parts of the country, once registered, one can vote long after they die.

[YOSUP]

Everything is suppression to the left including cleaning out dead people off voter rows.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@YOSUP

Everything is suppression to the left including cleaning out dead people off voter rows.

Nonsense

[YOSUP]

It’s not nonsense your party fights it in courts

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@YOSUP

It’s not nonsense your party fights it in courts

Nonsense X2

[YOSUP]

Stacey Abrams Georgia voting law!

[Paul_Thomson]

@hindsight

The 101,789 names set to be removed from Georgia’s voting rolls are being taken off because of a change of address or after failing to vote for at least five consecutive years. "

You’re right, OP, this is voter supression.

My wife is a teacher. Her registration, required to teach in schools, lapses after 5 years unless she takes the initiative to re-register before the deadline. Is this teacher suppression? And if she were colored, would it be automatically racist?

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@Paul_Thomson

@hindsight

The 101,789 names set to be removed from Georgia’s voting rolls are being taken off because of a change of address or after failing to vote for at least five consecutive years. "

You’re right, OP, this is voter supression.

My wife is a teacher. Her registration, required to teach in schools, lapses after 5 years unless she takes the initiative to re-register before the deadline. Is this teacher suppression? And if she were colored, would it be automatically racist?

Again, the suppression isn’t the automatic de-registration, that just makes it a negative right.

The suppression comes if and when obstacles are set to re-registration. Which is to say the purging in and of itself is not suppression.

[Paul_Thomson]

@Supreme_War_Pig

The suppression comes if and when obstacles are set to re-registration. Which is to say the purging in and of itself is not suppression.

What obstacles are being set to re-registration, SWP?

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@Paul_Thomson

@Supreme_War_Pig

The suppression comes if and when obstacles are set to re-registration. Which is to say the purging in and of itself is not suppression.

What obstacles are being set to re-registration, SWP?

We have yet to see.

The one I am watching for is the I.D. requirement (which I am fine with, BTW) with a subsequent closure of D.M.V. offices (in minority- majority areas) and a concurrent restriction of hours of operation (which will disproportionately affect lower wage workers) both of which tend to vote Democratic.

Another one will be a defunding and de-staffing of clerk offices to frustrate voters wishing to check their voting status. We may also see chicanery with the website: a new website that will be advertised as better, but will actually be worse.

All of this makes voting a negative right, and discourage folks from trying.

However, I also anticipate that Fair Fight Action will be very active in their efforts on registration/re-registration to offset this. If I see all of this, everybody else does as well. This may then require a different strategy that I don’t forsee.

So as I say, we will have to see.

[WuWei]

@Supreme_War_Pig

Another one will be a defunding and de-staffing of clerk offices to frustrate voters wishing to check their voting status.

It can be checked on line

[WuWei]

@Supreme_War_Pig

All of this makes voting a negative right,

Voting is a negative right.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@WuWei

@Supreme_War_Pig

All of this makes voting a negative right,

Voting is a negative right.

I don’t think it should be. If we made registration automatic, we could do away with all of these fights.

[WuWei]

@Supreme_War_Pig

@WuWei

@Supreme_War_Pig

All of this makes voting a negative right,

Voting is a negative right.

I don’t think it should be. If we made registration automatic, we could do away with all of these fights.

I have no problem with “automatic” registration, depending on how it’s done. They won’t change voting into a positive right.

[JayJay]

@Supreme_War_Pig

@WuWei

@Supreme_War_Pig

All of this makes voting a negative right,

Voting is a negative right.

I don’t think it should be. If we made registration automatic, we could do away with all of these fights.

Sneaky is right…,by definition, voting is a negative right.

Loosely speaking, negative rights are rights government is prohibited from infringing on.

Positive rights are when someone is obligated to act on you in some way regarding your right.

Me being prohibited from killing you is a negative right to life.
Me being obligated to save your life by all means necessary if you are in danger of losing it is a positive right to life.

[altair1013]

@WuWei

I have no problem with “automatic” registration, depending on how it’s done. They won’t change voting into a positive right.

As long as citizenship is verified.

[WuWei]

@altair1013

@WuWei

I have no problem with “automatic” registration, depending on how it’s done. They won’t change voting into a positive right.

As long as citizenship is verified.

And how.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@JayJay

@Supreme_War_Pig

@WuWei

@Supreme_War_Pig

All of this makes voting a negative right,

Voting is a negative right.

I don’t think it should be. If we made registration automatic, we could do away with all of these fights.

Sneaky is right…,by definition, voting is a negative right.

Loosely speaking, negative rights are rights government is prohibited from infringing on.

Positive rights are when someone is obligated to act on you in some way regarding your right.

Me being prohibited from killing you is a negative right to life.
Me being obligated to save your life by all means necessary if you are in danger of losing it is a positive right to life.

Negative rights are where you opt in, positive rights are where you opt out.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@WuWei

@altair1013

@WuWei

I have no problem with “automatic” registration, depending on how it’s done. They won’t change voting into a positive right.

As long as citizenship is verified.

And how.

I am thinking with driver’s liscences.

[DougBH]

@altair1013

@WuWei

I have no problem with “automatic” registration, depending on how it’s done. They won’t change voting into a positive right.

As long as citizenship is verified.

And residency?
But we now have two assertions that have to be made by the voter. That doesn’t seem particularly onerous to me. Oh, they would have to verify their age and I suppose that there was nothing that would make them ineligible to vote.
But without going through all these posts, what’s the problem. Did anyone here have a hard time registering and voting. If any of those 100,000 the thread title says were cut, are they not being allowed to re register? They definitely should be allowed to re register and vote, in my opinion. It is terrible if they are removed and not allowed to do that. Is that the issue? It must be.