Georgia NAACP - voting machines changing votes to Kemp.

[WOT?*]

amp.usatoday.com/amp/1741406002?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR1jRHvKE2ukEokcoiy9zu0GjM_QnGk2qMJBy2gYI836N1FeOapgfkb-IbA

(Per the comment on "the other 98%" on FB it's happening in NC and SC as well.)

[anonymous]

this is such a disgrace.

[Chuppathingy]

I am not surprised by this at all. 😡

[Pom]

Obvious cheaters are wait for it: obvious.

[mbcdefg]

Kemp also said he will not recuse himself if the Georgia vote goes to a recount.

Seems legit.

[heat40]

Yea. In the meantime, there is no sense of urgency from anyone other than the Dems about this issue. So incredibly frustrating.

[mskitkat]

This is all over my local politics groups. It’s insane.

[bronxgirl]

The voter suppression tactics keep getting more and more brazen and it feels like media and politicians keep proceeding business as usual. this makes me so anxious and demoralized.

[msmerymac]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

And it's not like the justice department or any other federal agency will do anything about it. SCOTUS opened up this possibility by gutting the voting rights act.

Our democratic institutions are not going to save us. We're on a slippery slope to dictatorship. I really don't think I'm being hyperbolic. Even if Trump leaves eventually (certainly no guarantee he will), they'll already have plenty of systems in place to prevent anyone else from ever gaining power.

[mbcdefg]

Georgia election officials must stop rejecting absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications because of a mismatched signature without first giving voters a chance to fix the problem, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.



www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/georgias-rejection-of-mail-ballots-over-mismatched-signatures-halted-by-judge 

[downtoearth]

Per the Georgia issue... is it that these are older touchscreen devices and are imprecise and so you can click on the box/candidate and it just malfunctions or what? The article wasn't too clear? And eight complaints so far - two from the same machine seems like reason to check them all again or allow voters to use paper ballots there.

[pixy0stix]

Oct 24, 2018 15:49:00 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

What's happpening in Georgia is such utter bullshit. How are there no checks on this obvious conflict of interest?

There's so much of the government that counts exclusively on people to be decent and honorable, and not douchebag human beings.

[puppylove64]

I am so stressed about this election 😥 republicans are scared and doing anything to try to ensure a win. This system is so corrupted.

[ESF]

Oct 24, 2018 16:00:24 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Oct 24, 2018 15:49:00 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

What's happpening in Georgia is such utter bullshit. How are there no checks on this obvious conflict of interest?

There's so much of the government that counts exclusively on people to be decent and honorable, and not douchebag human beings.

A while back, someone on Twitter remarked that the Trump administration was revealing just how much of our democracy relied upon the honor system. That quote really stuck with me, because damn near every day, I see stuff like this and think about how it's only happening because there's no enforcement mechanism to stop it, and you just have to count on people being decent and honorable. 

I suppose that in theory, the press, the courts, and an educated citizenry are the enforcement mechanisms, but the GOP has really done an incredible job in breaking those things.

[GilliC]

Oct 24, 2018 15:06:43 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Georgia election officials must stop rejecting absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications because of a mismatched signature without first giving voters a chance to fix the problem, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/georgias-rejection-of-mail-ballots-over-mismatched-signatures-halted-by-judge 

Holy crap! I never realized that they were signature matching my ballot. Since it's over the flap of the carrier envelope, I thought it was just a signature in the sense of "I confirm that I am casting this ballot." Like signing any kind of legal document. I had no idea that it's considered some kind of proof of identity! My writing is screwed, because of a temporary wrist brace for an RSI, and I remember thinking my signature on the ballot envelope looked atrocious! Thankfully my county clerk is a very pro-voting Democrat, but I will be following the Texas FPCA Ballot Tracker closely.

[btdt]

I am very close with the Voter Protection Director for the Democratic Party of GA. To say that she is putting in long hours these days is a MASSIVE understatement (14 hours a day Monday through Friday, anywhere from 8-10 hours a day or longer on the weekends). She left her position with The Carter Center (where she helped supervise multiple elections) in February to take her current job, which is the only one like it in the country. Yesterday, they logged roughly 700 calls to the voter protection hotline she set up. Their expectation was to have 5,000 calls to the hotline for the entire election cycle (early voting started October 15). As of last night when the office closed at 9:00, they have already logged 10,000 calls.

[mskitkat]

Oct 25, 2018 7:39:25 GMT -5 btdt said:

I am very close with the Voter Protection Director for the Democratic Party of GA. To say that she is putting in long hours these days is a MASSIVE understatement (14 hours a day Monday through Friday, anywhere from 8-10 hours a day or longer on the weekends). She left her position with The Carter Center (where she helped supervise multiple elections) in February to take her current job, which is the only one like it in the country. Yesterday, they logged roughly 700 calls to the voter protection hotline she set up. Their expectation was to have 5,000 calls to the hotline for the entire election cycle (early voting started October 15). As of last night when the office closed at 9:00, they have already logged 10,000 calls.

I was wondering how she was doing. Everything I’ve heard is so batty.

[centralsquare]

We’ve heard the same thing from Dem voters in Texas while doing GOTV texting. vote for the Dem ticket was switched to Cruz for senator.

Also, a Cruz voter texted back “Die!” to me. Sweet, dude.

[mbcdefg]

Scoop: More than 4,500 vote-by-mail applications have gone missing in Georgia's DeKalb County, a place critical for Nov.'s hotly contested Gov's race. The missing applications have further stoked fears of voter suppression + election mismanagement


www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/politics/senate-house-elections.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage 

[isabel]

Oct 24, 2018 11:01:04 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Kemp also said he will not recuse himself if the Georgia vote goes to a recount.

Seems legit.

Jesus Christ. How is this allowed to stand!?

[Michelle]

This is happening in Texas too. Democrats voting straight ticket who bother to check their votes find Cruz was selected instead of Beto. 
Republicans find that no one was selected instead of Cruz.

While this is happening to both sides, a Democrat's vote is for the opposite person. The Republican's vote is just missing. In a red state, that nets a  Cruz advantage.

[mouse]

This is outrageous and I'm hearing almost nothing about it.

I've never used a voting booth before - when something like this happens do you have any recourse? Like, refuse to okay it and then vote on a different machine?

[LoveTrains]

I'm so glad we have paper ballots in my state.

[SwimDeep]

How do I check my vote to make sure the machine voted for the right person? Do I have any recourse here?

[mbcdefg]

Re: Texas problems:

www.texastribune.org/2018/10/26/texas-voting-machines-2018-straight-ticket-midterm-elections/amp/#click=https://t.co/hsfjzc33wX

[mbcdefg]

 



A federal judge ordered Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to guarantee people flagged as non-citizens through Georgia's "exact match" system can vote in the 2018 election.