Twitchy just posted a piece on CNN’s Jim Acosta insisting that voter fraud in this country is very rare (Russian meddling is the real threat), and if you check the responses from people who actually follow the guy on Twitter for information and not laughs, they’re all convinced that the real problem is voter suppression by the GOP, with suppression ranging all the way from requiring voter ID to not giving all Americans Election Day off from work.
Speaking of voter fraud, the Resurgent’s Erick Erickson recalled a piece in the Associated Press from earlier this month about 53,000 voters in Georgia who were put on a “pending” list, which caused an outrage among the Resistance.
The AP’s piece started out, as they all do, with a human interest story:
Marsha Appling-Nunez was showing the college students she teaches how to check online if they’re registered to vote when she made a troubling discovery. Despite being an active Georgia voter who had cast ballots in recent elections, she was no longer registered.
“I was kind of shocked,” said Appling-Nunez, who moved from one Atlanta suburb to another in May and believed she had successfully changed her address on the voter rolls.
“I’ve always voted. I try to not miss any elections, including local ones,” Appling-Nunez said.
Appling-Nunez found herself on that “pending” list, which the AP notes “is predominantly black.”
But now the Georgia secretary of state, who’s a candidate for governor, has completed his review of that list, and here’s what he told Erickson Monday afternoon on Erickson’s radio program:
The @AP ran a story on October 9, 2018, claiming there were 53,000 registered voters in Georgia who were put on a "pending" list. The GA Secretary of State has completed his review, including hiring an independent reviewer, and his findings are as follow:
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 22, 2018
The ‘Pending’ list (as of 10/17/18) was 75,105
9,224 are ‘pending’ because the person is 17.5
2,935 used a fake address
3,393 are ‘pending’ because citizenship could not be verified— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 22, 2018
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5,842 are ‘pending’ because they match another active voter file
After you remove underage, fake addresses, duplicates, and non-citizens, you have roughly 46,000 ‘pending’ on the list, not 53,000.— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 22, 2018
75% are on the list because they failed Social Security Number verification. Stacey Abrams' group New Georgia Project is responsible for 23% of those, or 11,024 voters.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 22, 2018
Former state Rep. Stacey Abrams is challenging Kemp in the state’s governor’s race.
Those 11,024 voters had their registration filed in 2014 by the New Georgia Project. None of those 11,024 voters have ever attempted to vote or contact a local board of elections to provide the correct social security number.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 22, 2018
In other words, 75% of the people provided the wrong last four digits of their purported social security numbers and 23% were actually filed not by the voter, but by a group associated with Stacey Abrams.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 22, 2018
Here’s video from the radio show:
We’re looking for more on the story, but most major outlets are still going with think pieces, like, “Black Voters in Georgia Fear Brian Kemp Is Rigging the Election” (The Daily Beast) and “Georgia’s voter suppression problem goes much deeper than Brian Kemp” (The Washington Post).
Thread. https://t.co/RF9ak8UR5U
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) October 22, 2018
Whoa! This is an important illegal voting story https://t.co/zlv1iYS5mY
— Meredith Marshall (@MeredithMarsha1) October 22, 2018
Interesting and illuminating further information in this thread:https://t.co/i5EAXacIdQ
— Dodd (@Amuk3) October 22, 2018
Thread on the truth about the supposed ‘voter suppression’ in GA…
Read it, then bookmark it…
Then throw it in the face of every Prog who brings up ‘voter suppression’ in GA. https://t.co/upLFGk85mo
— (((WitCoHE))) (@E__Strobel) October 22, 2018
Let’s see if any of this pops up on the major cable news channels tonight.
Related:
No big deal, just Peter Fonda encouraging voter fraud so Dems can win in 2018 https://t.co/uXn58Smxjw
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 6, 2018
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