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DEL.ICIO.USU.S. Justice Department says Handel’s voter scrutiny requires approval
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A three-judge federal panel seems to have forged a compromise in the lawsuit over Georgia voters whose eligibility has been thrown into question by computer screens ordered Secretary of State Karen Handel.
Handel has been ordered to go back to every voter told that he or she might be ineligible, and tell the voter that he or she may cast a ballot. But the vote will be flagged, and to be counted the voter must satisfy the objections made.
The court found that the changes Handel made are indeed subject to U.S. Justice Department scrutiny under the Voting Rights Act:
“There are at least two features of Georgia’s post HAVA system that constitute changes that require preclearance. One is the comparison of information in the [state Department of Driver Services] and [Social Security Administration] data bases that results in the identification of applicants whose eligibility could not be verified. The other is the disparate methodologies employed by registrars in attempting to evaluate, notify and qualifiy potential ineligible voters.”
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By catlady
October 27, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
About time! I found Ms. Handel’s “explanation” of the vast number of checks to be hard to believe. Even counting the number of duplicates she said were submitted, and the errors she says her dept committed, it is easy to see the effort to dilute the vote. I think the DOJ should jail her—that will get teh attention of those who think it is okay to sc rew with the right to vote.! If I stand outside the polls and try to keep people out, that is exactly where my butt would be!
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
October 27, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
It is not fair to keep Democrats from stealing elections. I vote early and often and hope that when I die I will continue to vote. It is only ok to point out Republican cheating. Democrat voter fraud and groups like ACORN are as American as apple pie.
By RJ
October 27, 2008 7:52 PM | Link to this
Another question that merits scrutiny of the US Justice Department pertains to whether Handel is employing disparate review of Absentee Ballots, which normally favor Republicans.
By Will Jones
October 28, 2008 6:48 AM | Link to this
1.9 million new Georgia voter verification requests submitted by the state - per the Social Security Admin - and Handel, transparently a partisan hack in service to those who are demonstrably destroying the Republic, claims less than one-half million new-registered voter applicants.
She File-13’d a million and a half new voters?
If she did and the Electorate doesn’t “get a rope” America is lost.
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