Georgia’s Democrats have registered more than 85,000 minority voters (and counting)

[Cigar]

Georgia’s Democrats have registered more than 85,000 minority voters (and counting). Republicans never saw it coming.


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Board of Elections Customer Service Supervisor Sabrina German hands out absentee ballots during early voting on Oct. 23, 2008, in Savannah, Georgia. If more minorities register and vote, Georgia could be a red state no more.


In 2008, under the best possible conditions for a Democrat, Barack Obama lost Georgia by just over 200,000 votes, or 5.2 percent of Georgians who voted. Four years later he lost again by just over 300,000 votes, or 7.8 percent of Georgians who voted. By any measure the state is a reach for Democrats. And yet, the party is optimistic, both now—Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter, its Senate and gubernatorial candidates, respectively, are running close races—and for the future.

The “why” is easy to answer: Georgia has roughly 700,000 unregistered black voters. If Democrats could cut that number by less than a third—and bring nearly 200,000 likely Democrats to the polls—they would turn a red state purple, and land a major blow to the national Republican Party. Or, as Michelle Obama said during a campaign rally on Monday, “If just 50 Democratic voters per precinct who didn’t vote in 2010 get out and vote this November—just 50 per precinct—then Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter will win.” Given 2,727 precincts in Georgia, that’s just 136,350 new voters.

Enter the New Georgia Project. Led by Stacey Abrams, Democratic leader in the state House of Representatives, the project is meant to do just that—register hundreds of thousands of blacks and other minorities. Their goal, says Abrams, is to “directly or indirectly collect 120,000 voter registration applications.” That could be enough to push Democrats over the top. And it makes the project one of the largest voter registration drives in recent Georgia history.

So far, it’s been a success. “In addition to the 85,000 we have collected as an organization directly,” says Abrams, “we have also supported the efforts of 12 organizations around the state. We know there are groups doing registration in the Latino community, in the Asian community, and in the youth community, and we wanted to support their efforts as well.” These groups, she says, have collected 20,000 to 25,000 applications, putting the New Georgia Project in striking distance of its goal two months before Election Day.

Which brings us to this week. On Tuesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp—a Republican—said his office was investigating allegations of voter fraud from the New Georgia Project, following complaints about voter applications submitted by the group. To that end, Kemp has issued subpoenas to the group and its parent organization, Third Sector Development.

“Preliminary investigation has revealed significant illegal activities’ including forged voter registration applications, forged signatures on releases, and applications with false or inaccurate information,” he wrote in a memo to county election officials.


Six years ago, a “purple” Georgia was a pipe dream. Now, it’s a possibility.



http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/09/stacey_abrams_new_georgia_project_shocks_georgia_s _gop_republicans_fighting.html



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[Peter1469]

legally?

[Mainecoons]

Is that 8500 people ten times each?

How many live in graveyards?

:grin:

[Cigar]

Is that 8500 people ten times each?

How many live in graveyards?

:grin:


By any means necessary :grin:

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[momsapplepie]

I hope they're running the double registration scan.....Could be that number gets cut in half.........

[Cigar]

I hope they're running the double registration scan.....Could be that number gets cut in half.........

You Hope :grin:

[Cigar]

Southern Republicans Simply Don’t Want Minorities To VoteIt’s disgusting, and it’s still about race: Southern Republicans simply don’t want minorities to vote
The latest chilling example in Georgia is part of a long, shameful history of how Republicans win elections

http://media.salon.com/2014/08/wallace_reagan_nixon-620x412.jpg

Sometimes conservative politicians, particularly those who hail from the South, accidentally forget to dog-whistle and they say what’s really on their minds. It’s always revealing.

Take the Georgia secretary of state, for instance, who just this week gave a speech about voting “integrity” and told his Republican audience, “the Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.” That was actually a rare slip-up in an otherwise pretty slick speech where he obliquely referred to ACORN and its alleged misdeeds and bragged about how the state is making it really complicated to register online so as to root out (nonexistent) voter fraud, wink, wink. (That last seems like a dubious strategy for a party that is dependent on elderly, rural white voters …)

But after you isolate all the clever obfuscation, you see that he is simply saying that Democrats are registering too many racial minorities and that will inevitably hurt the ball team. This is, of course, an old story that goes back to Reconstruction. In those days the Southern conservatives all gathered in the Democratic Party, but any party with which those particular folks identify gets upset at the prospect of racial minorities voting. Such things as “citizenship tests” and poll taxes are no longer available to them so they have to rely on subtler ways to ensure that this group of citizens are kept from voting their interests.

It used to be strictly African-Americans about whom these fine folks were worried but the modern GOP has been pretty concerned about the Latino vote for some time as well. As long ago as the early ’60s, Arizona Republican activist (and future chief justice of the Supreme Court) William Rehnquist was involved in something called Operation Eagle Eye. This document in the LBJ library, which Rick Perlstein found for his book on the Goldwater campaign called “Before the Storm,” lays out the strategy:


John M Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, charged today that “under the guise of setting up an apparatus to protect the sanctity of the ballot, the Republicans are actually creating the machinery for a carefully organized campaign to intimidate voters and to frighten members of minority groups from casting their ballots on November 3rd.

“‘Let’s get this straight,’ Bailey added, ‘the Democratic Party is just as much opposed to vote frauds as is the Republican party. We will settle for giving all legally registered voters an opportunity to make their choice on November 3rd. We have enough faith in our Party to be confident that the outcome will be a vote of confidence in President Johnson and a mandate for the President and his running mate, Hubert Humphrey, to continue the programs of the Johnson-Kennedy Administration.

“‘But we have evidence that the Republican program is not really what it purports to be. it is an organized effort to prevent the foreign born, to prevent Negroes, to prevent members of ethnic minorities from casting their votes by frightening and intimidating them at the polling place.

Republicans who buy the nonsensical insistence by vacuous right-wing operatives that Democrats are the real racists because the Southerners used to vote for them will be very confused by this. Obviously, the parties switched places over civil rights. But then you knew that, of course. In any case, these vote suppression tactics have been going on for a very long time. A certain type of conservative voter really does not want racial and ethnic minorities to vote, for some reason.


But there was one event in more recent history that really focused their attention and made them extremely nervous. It happened in the mid-1980s during the height of the Reagan revolution when...


More:http://www.salon.com/2014/09/12/its_disgusting_and_its_still_about_race_southern_r epublicans_simply_dont_want_minorities_to_vote/

[Peter1469]

You grandmother would call that author a liar.


Southern Republicans Simply Don’t Want Minorities To Vote

It’s disgusting, and it’s still about race: Southern Republicans simply don’t want minorities to vote
The latest chilling example in Georgia is part of a long, shameful history of how Republicans win elections

http://media.salon.com/2014/08/wallace_reagan_nixon-620x412.jpg

Sometimes conservative politicians, particularly those who hail from the South, accidentally forget to dog-whistle and they say what’s really on their minds. It’s always revealing.

Take the Georgia secretary of state, for instance, who just this week gave a speech about voting “integrity” and told his Republican audience, “the Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.” That was actually a rare slip-up in an otherwise pretty slick speech where he obliquely referred to ACORN and its alleged misdeeds and bragged about how the state is making it really complicated to register online so as to root out (nonexistent) voter fraud, wink, wink. (That last seems like a dubious strategy for a party that is dependent on elderly, rural white voters …)

But after you isolate all the clever obfuscation, you see that he is simply saying that Democrats are registering too many racial minorities and that will inevitably hurt the ball team. This is, of course, an old story that goes back to Reconstruction. In those days the Southern conservatives all gathered in the Democratic Party, but any party with which those particular folks identify gets upset at the prospect of racial minorities voting. Such things as “citizenship tests” and poll taxes are no longer available to them so they have to rely on subtler ways to ensure that this group of citizens are kept from voting their interests.

It used to be strictly African-Americans about whom these fine folks were worried but the modern GOP has been pretty concerned about the Latino vote for some time as well. As long ago as the early ’60s, Arizona Republican activist (and future chief justice of the Supreme Court) William Rehnquist was involved in something called Operation Eagle Eye. This document in the LBJ library, which Rick Perlstein found for his book on the Goldwater campaign called “Before the Storm,” lays out the strategy:


John M Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, charged today that “under the guise of setting up an apparatus to protect the sanctity of the ballot, the Republicans are actually creating the machinery for a carefully organized campaign to intimidate voters and to frighten members of minority groups from casting their ballots on November 3rd.

“‘Let’s get this straight,’ Bailey added, ‘the Democratic Party is just as much opposed to vote frauds as is the Republican party. We will settle for giving all legally registered voters an opportunity to make their choice on November 3rd. We have enough faith in our Party to be confident that the outcome will be a vote of confidence in President Johnson and a mandate for the President and his running mate, Hubert Humphrey, to continue the programs of the Johnson-Kennedy Administration.

“‘But we have evidence that the Republican program is not really what it purports to be. it is an organized effort to prevent the foreign born, to prevent Negroes, to prevent members of ethnic minorities from casting their votes by frightening and intimidating them at the polling place.

Republicans who buy the nonsensical insistence by vacuous right-wing operatives that Democrats are the real racists because the Southerners used to vote for them will be very confused by this. Obviously, the parties switched places over civil rights. But then you knew that, of course. In any case, these vote suppression tactics have been going on for a very long time. A certain type of conservative voter really does not want racial and ethnic minorities to vote, for some reason.


But there was one event in more recent history that really focused their attention and made them extremely nervous. It happened in the mid-1980s during the height of the Reagan revolution when...


More:http://www.salon.com/2014/09/12/its_disgusting_and_its_still_about_race_southern_r epublicans_simply_dont_want_minorities_to_vote/

[PolWatch]

uh, I don't know if the author of the article is truthful or not, but this is the truth:

In American politics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States), the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29) strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States) by appealing to racism against African Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States#African_Americans).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Herbert-1)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Boyd-2)[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Counter-3)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Branch-4)[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-HerbertReagan-5)
Though the "Solid South (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_South)" had been a longtime Democratic Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29) stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War) and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1948) (triggering the Dixiecrats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat)), the African-American Civil Rights Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281955%E2%80%93196 8%29), the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964) and Voting Rights Act of 1965 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965), and desegregation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation).
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon) and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater)[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-6)[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-7) in the late 1960s.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-NY_Times_1996-8) The strategy was successful in winning 5 formerly Confederate states in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. It contributed to the electoral realignment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election) of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began attempting to appeal to black voters again, though with little success.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-NY_Times_1996-8)
In 2005, Republican National Committee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee) chairman Ken Mehlman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mehlman) formally apologized to the NAACP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP) for ignoring the black vote and exploiting racial conflicts.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Mehlman-9)[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-wapo-apology-10)

from Wiki

[Cigar]

uh, I don't know if the author of the article is truthful or not, but this is the truth:

In American politics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States), the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)) strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States) by appealing to racism against African Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States#African_Americans).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Herbert-1)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Boyd-2)[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Counter-3)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Branch-4)[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-HerbertReagan-5)
Though the "Solid South (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_South)" had been a longtime Democratic Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War) and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1948) (triggering the Dixiecrats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat)), the African-American Civil Rights Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968)), the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964) and Voting Rights Act of 1965 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965), and desegregation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation).
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon) and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater)[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-6)[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-7) in the late 1960s.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-NY_Times_1996-8) The strategy was successful in winning 5 formerly Confederate states in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. It contributed to the electoral realignment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election) of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began attempting to appeal to black voters again, though with little success.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-NY_Times_1996-8)
In 2005, Republican National Committee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee) chairman Ken Mehlman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mehlman) formally apologized to the NAACP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP) for ignoring the black vote and exploiting racial conflicts.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Mehlman-9)[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-wapo-apology-10)

from Wiki



Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy

The forty-two-minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X_8E3ENrKrQ


Some people are in total and complete denial of the Documented FACTS!