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| "Me can not help meself. Me have serious problem." |
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| Pictured: voter registration forms being put on hold. |
In a completely 'how do these people sleep at night?' move, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp has put tens of thousands of Georgia voters' registrations 'on hold' a month before an extremely tight election between himself and Democratic candidate Stacey Adams. He calls it voter roll maintenance and it works by rejecting a registration if the voter's name is in any way different from what the State or the Social Security Administration has on file. So if your name is say, Timothy, and you wrote Tim on your registration you're out.
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| Voter purging is the Republican equivalent of the hadoken. |
So you're probably wondering why in the name of shit is anyone ok with this? Well, racism mostly. According to this, while Georgia's population is 32% African American, 70% of the voters whose registrations are on hold are African-American. And sure, it's entirely possible that this is all a huge statistical coincidence and we should all give Kemp the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, Brian Kemp is...wait for it...a Republican and Republicans love to purge the rolls. It's like their super move and they're not going to stop using it.
How come? Because eliminating thousands of people from the rolls in order to combat the zero cases of voter fraud has worked pretty well for them in the past. Also, I think that undermining the very foundation of representative democracy gives them sexual pleasure.
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| "Love it. In fact, purging voter rolls is the only way I can achieve orgasm."
-Brian Kemp (actual quote)
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| Boyish charm, irrational temper tantrums worthy of a toddler. Six of one I guess... |
On the one hand you have most people who know what they're talking about saying that voter fraud is incredibly rare. In fact, there are only four documented cases in the 2016 election. On the other hand, Donald Trump lost the popular election by three million votes and made up some bullshit about illegal voters providing exactly no evidence other than his insane and narcissistic conviction that Americans can't resist his boyish charm. The truth must be somewhere in the middle, except that it's not at all in the middle.
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| Five or six more elections like this, and we might just get upset... |
At all. This is goddamn cheating. The GOP strategy is and has been for awhile, to turn the bumpers on in their bowling lane and then brag about how good they are at bowling. Like, 'because black Georgians might for for the Stacey Adams' isn't really grounds to purge a voter. In fact, it's probably something that should be, you know, illegal. He was briefly forced to stop arbitrarily purging the rolls back in 2017, but then the Republican held legislature just made it legal again. You know, so they could win some more elections with the bumpers on.
While Kemp is getting his ass sued by a bunch of civil rights groups, and that's super, but shouldn't people just be able to, you know, vote? Like, without having to sue? There's no reason to believe that anything's going to change in time for this election, and if he comes out on top in this race, it might mean that this is just how it's going to be. So what I want to know is how do Kemp and his supporters convince themselves that they're in the right here?
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| Oh right, by telling white people that their country is being taken over by not white people. And if there's one thing white conservatives love to hear is that they're the victims here. |
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