ATLANTA, GEORGIA—On Tuesday, Judge Christopher Brasher of the Fulton County Superior Court denied a petition from civil rights advocates to force Georgia’s Secretary of State to process an estimated 40,000 voter registrations that have gone missing from the public database.
Though early voting is well underway in the state, Judge Brasher called the lawsuit “premature,” and said it was based on “merely set out suspicions and fears that the [state officials] will fail to carry out their mandatory duties.”
Let's see if I get this straight. This lawsuit is no good because "trust the state officials to do what they're supposed to do"?
Really?
That's the opinion of the court? Remain calm, all is well?
On Monday, dozens of Georgians occupied the Secretary of State’s office to demand he meet with them and explain what happened to the tens of thousands of missing registrations. At that protest, in which eight activists were arrested, former American Government teacher and civil rights lawyer Marsha Burrofsky told ThinkProgress she suspects foul play.
“When we started registering people this spring, people were saying, ‘You know, I registered six months ago, but I haven’t gotten anything yet!’ We thought that was strange,” she said. So we sat down with our list of registrations and checked, and about 20 to 20 percent were not showing up. We truly don’t know where things stand with them.”
Burrofsky said the people she registered in Dunwoody, Georgia, a more affluent and conservative community, did show up in the system, while those in more diverse and low-income communities in DeKalb County mysteriously disappeared.
“It just hadn’t occurred to me that this would be a tactic that the Secretary of State could use. I was very naive, I guess. I feel absolutely sick that this election is being stolen,” she said.
Longtime Atlanta resident Atuarra McCaslin with Moral Monday Georgia, who organized Monday’s action, summed up his feelings on the situation. “It’s an unjust thing going on, he said. “Those 40,000 now can’t participate in the voting process, even though it’s their right as citizens. The Secretary of State doesn’t really care about those 40,000 people, who are primarily people of color and youth. Those kids have been waking up politically, and now their voices are going unheard. It’s just not right.”
My initial reaction is to say "let the riots begin", but that's just anger talking.
6 days away where has the DOJ been they could try to get an injunction tens of thousands of Americans are having their voice stolen by right wing extremist and all the gov't bodies seem not to give a damn Holder too if there is a good reason if there is such a thing when one party is disenfranchising thousands of Americans and denying intentionally their right to vote and have their voices heard and no official response, instead they are literally gagging voters and they are doing it with impunity, because they know no one will stop them.
well I want to stay optimistic that either our turn out or somebody in gov't or the right wing scotus has a conscious and stop this before we have anothe4r election cycle stolen by republicans, and the equally as despicable base they support this they are anti American at best and just reprehensible at least. time to show them stereotypes are not forever. Nov. 4th our day of rekoning
