Trump supporter, Brad Carver. JOHN SPINK /[email protected]
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Trump supporter, Brad Carver. JOHN SPINK /[email protected]
Carver, at the time, blamed Trump’s defeat on a “significant number of election irregularities,” not the fact that the former president got fewer votes. He chaired a GOP task force to recommend election law changes.

While Carver told the committee that duplicate registrations are a “huge problem,” public voter registration records show they are rare, and they’re corrected when detected by election officials. Under Georgia law, each voter can only vote once in each election, and they must show ID before casting a ballot.

“By removing that (automatic registration), we would actually be making voter rolls less accurate,” said state Sen. Derek Mallow, a Democrat from Savannah.

Georgia inadvertently eliminated automatic voter registration in 2021, when a change to the Department of Driver Services’ website required voters to click a button to register instead of signing them up by default. The change caused a drastic decline in new registrations and updates to voters’ information, including changes to their addresses and names.

Automatic registration was restored in Georgia following a series of articles by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Besides ending automatic registration, Senate Bill 221 would make it easier for residents to challenge the eligibility of voters. Over 100,000 voter registrations have been challenged since Georgia’s 2021 election law allowed anyone to file an unlimited number of challenges, a cause taken up by Republican activists.

The legislation included several bipartisan items as well, prohibiting county election boards from considering voter challenges within 45 days of an election and allowing homeless voters to register at the address of their county’s courthouse.

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The bill could soon be considered by the entire state Senate.

Senate Bill 221 is only the latest measure to be pushed by Republicans in the wake of Donald Trump’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Republicans have couched their bills as an attempt to “restore vote confidence” and “election integrity” measures after Trump and some GOP lawmakers promoted the false narrative that the election was stolen, despite numerous vote counts and investigations showing otherwise.

State legislators are also considering election bills that would eliminate computer codes from ballots, investigate Raffensperger for allegations of election problems, and criminalize deepfakes that use impersonate candidates to deceive voters.

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Republican Georgia senators vote to end automatic voter registration
Voter registration lists would become less accurate
Senate Ethics Chairman Max Burns answers senators' questions at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Feb. 28, 2023 (Olivia Bowdoin for the AJC).
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Senate Ethics Chairman Max Burns answers senators' questions at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Feb. 28, 2023 (Olivia Bowdoin for the AJC).
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Republican Georgia senators who say they are concerned about accurate voter lists advanced a bill Thursday to eliminate automatic voter registration, the primary tool to ensure voters’ names and addresses are correct.

The Senate Ethics Committee voted along party lines, 6-5, to approve legislation that would end automatic voter registration, a policy that registers eligible Georgians when they get their driver’s licenses unless they decline to sign up.

GOP senators pushed the legislation, Senate Bill 221, after a one-hour hearing that featured testimony from Brad Carver, one of 16 Republicans who attempted to award Georgia’s electoral votes to Donald Trump in 2020 even though he had lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

Ethics Chairman Max Burns said he’s concerned that automatic voter registration could result in voters being signed up twice, but officials from the secretary of state’s office said the policy ensures voters’ addresses are updated when they move and prevents noncitizens from registering.

“The intent is to ensure that every registered voter is registered accurately and there are no duplicate registrations,” said Burns, a Republican from Sylvania. “There needs to be some conscious decision of the Georgia voter saying, ‘I wish to ensure I’m registered in Georgia.’”

Republicans from the secretary of state’s office said automatic registration ensures that voters are registered at home addresses listed on their driver’s licenses, which voters then use as proof of ID. About 79% of registrations processed from the Department of Driver Services are updates to existing registrations, not new registrations, according to state election officials.

“The automated process we have right now from DDS is the best voter list maintenance tool we have to make sure our voter rolls are accurate and up to date,” said Charlene McGowan, general counsel for Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “It’s also the best way to do citizenship verification.”

Democrats opposed the amended bill that was unveiled Wednesday.

Early voting for the 2024 Georgia presidential primary is underway. (Miguel Martinez / [email protected])
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Early voting for the 2024 Georgia presidential primary is underway. (Miguel Martinez / [email protected])
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“It actually undermines the goals of your bill: to make the voter rolls clean and increase voter security,” said state Rep. Saira Draper, a Democrat from Atlanta, during public comments to the committee. “All of that information is tied to a state-issued verified voter ID.”

Georgia is one of 24 states with automatic voter registration, which was implemented by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in 2016 when he was secretary of state. There are nearly 8 million registered voters in Georgia.

Carver, the Trump elector and an officer of the Georgia Republican Party, said the proposal wouldn’t hamper anyone from registering to vote.

“What this does is it prevents having duplicative voter registrations, which is a huge problem,” Carver said. “The change (to automatic registration) has led to the issue that we have today with the voter rolls in Georgia.”

Senate Bill 221 is the latest measure pushed by Republicans in the wake of Trump’s loss to Biden. Republicans have couched their bills as an attempt to “restore voter confidence” after Trump promoted the false narrative that the election was stolen, despite three vote counts and repeated investigations proving otherwise.

https://www.emerald.tv/p/test-ballots-were-counted-as-real?utm_medium=ios&open=false

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Test Ballots Were Counted As Real Ballots In Georgia!

Philip Davis & Bridget Thorne were right: Dominion Voting Systems allowed "test ballots" to be counted in Fulton County's recount

No Excuse Absentee urging resolution did not pass at the State Board of Elections yesterday.

https://sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/No%20Excuse%20Absentee%20Voting%20proposal%20to%20GA.pdf

This is a common playbook with the liberal democrats, Amber Perry did their bidding in trying her best to not get Milton to run its own elections. In the end, she basically was made to look like a fool when the elections were successfully run.

Another example is Ruby Freeman. We clearly see her double scanning ballots. We see her incriminating Facebook posts. Yet, she is made to be a victim and given hero awards.

Let’s look at the local level here recently. Commissioner Hall hired her lover to be her Chief of Staff. When he ended the relationship, he was fired. He sued and there was a 6 day public trial describing their sexual behavior. Commissioner Hall was censored by her peers for violating County hiring practices. With all this, Commissioner Arrington, gave her “Commissioner of the Year Award” from the Georgia Black Commissioners Association.

What an absolute joke award! Amber Perry exposed NOTHING!! Secret meetings. She tried to discredit a city running its own elections. She tried to make it appear partisan…. When it was all done and they successfully ran their own elections and they plan on doing it again, she had to publish a piece as to why she wrote 40 articles on it.

https://www.appenmedia.com/news/milton-city-council-responds-to-elections-scrutiny-legal-challenges/article_dcb86de4-4da3-11ee-b5c7-3f3fc587d68e.html

https://www.utpog.com/elections/georgia-democratic-party-threatens-elections-officials/

This the same attorney who came to the Milton City Council meetings. Threatening them of lawsuits.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4438446-fair-fight-stacey-abrams-lays-off-staff/

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