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Georgia woman hadn't even voted when she was informed her vote was being challenged

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by orangeblue_coop, Oct 23, 2022.

  1. orangeblue_coop

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    Jennifer Jones, a Morehouse School of Medicine PhD student, showed up to her precinct in Fulton county, Georgia, on the second day of early voting for the midterm elections. She was excited to cast her ballot for her chosen candidates in the gubernatorial and Senate races, Stacey Abrams and Senator Raphael Warnock. However, when she reached the check-in station at the polling site, she was informed that she would be unable to cast a regular ballot because her validity as a voter was challenged.

    “When I handed in my ID, the poll worker said I was being challenged,” said Jones. “They said I had to complete a provisional ballot, but I wasn’t really comfortable doing that, so I didn’t get to cast my ballot that day.”

    Under the state’s new Election Integrity Act, Georgia citizens can challenge a voter’s eligibility on the state’s voting rolls an unlimited number of times. Right-wing groups, spurred by baseless claims that the 2020 election was rife with voter fraud, have mounted thousands of organized challenges across the state, putting even more pressure on the election process for voters, poll workers and election officials. While most have been dismissed already, more challenges cropped up ahead of early voting.

    In most cases, voters like Jones don’t know why their status is being challenged in the first place, causing even more confusion. “The poll worker didn’t tell me why I was being challenged, even after calling someone else for assistance,” said Jones. “They just kept telling me I would have to vote with a provisional ballot.”

    Early voters in Georgia face obstacles under state’s new election law


    Get ready to hear about this same thing happening to thousands of voters.
     
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  2. rivergator

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    What is it about her that would possible make a Republican poll watcher challenge her vote?

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  3. danmanne65

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    Morehouse medical school phd student? I thought you became an md at medical school not a phd. lol
     
  4. fda92045

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    There are MD-phd tracks, so you do both.
     
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  5. kygator

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    I was under the impression that it wasn’t someone at the polling station but she was just on a list of people being challenged. In my opinion, if someone wants to challenge someone else’s right to vote, they have to provide the reason along with any evidence they have. If they can’t provide any of that, the challenge shouldn’t even move forward. The person being challenged should be given full information of the reasoning.
     
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  6. murphree_hall

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    Yeah, you should be eligible until proven ineligible. What a joke.
     
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  7. orangeblue_coop

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    I’m sure plenty of other “Morehouse students” in Georgia will face a similar experience
     
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  8. gator_lawyer

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    I'm sure it's just purely coincidental that she's a Black woman in Fulton County.
     
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  9. danmanne65

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    I know. I thought you got your phd from a different college though. Like biology or chemistry
     
  10. gator_lawyer

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    A person who baselessly challenges the voter registration of another should have their voter registration cancelled.
     
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  11. BLING

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    Some medical doctors want to get into a research or teaching track…

    There is also an MPH for doctors who want to go into hospital administration or public health (although you don’t need to be a physician to go after the MPH, I know several pharmacists and nurses in management who have an MPH).
     
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  12. docspor

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    it has to come with some kinda cost
     
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  13. tampagtr

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    That's how it used to be, at least in Florida. And I suspect it was that way in Georgia, because the new voting law included this provision and it was covered as something new. You could challenge big groups of voters without giving much of a reason and do it from afar.

    You used to have to challenge at the precinct and someone could be there to argue otherwise. I know that because I was often that person. And if the person in charge of the precinct felt that too many objections were being lodged in bad faith, they could kick out the designated poll watcher. None of that applies under current Georgia law
     
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  14. BLING

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    Eventually it may turn into a situation where minorities will need to rebel to (once again) to retain their equal rights. Some of the race provocateurs want civil war.
     
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  15. docspor

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    All because of a big baby asshole snowflake
     
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  16. gator_lawyer

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    And a lot of other smaller baby asshole snowflakes.
     
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  17. fda92045

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    I mean you can? But the mdphd is like a streamlined 6 year program where you take 2 years to do research.
     
  18. murphree_hall

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    So... what's to stop mass voter challenges from both sides now that this is going to go viral?
     
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  19. ursidman

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    Infuriating, wrong, and un-American. Election Integrity Law?
     
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  20. gator_lawyer

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    It's the sort of "election integrity" Republicans love . . . making it harder for U.S. citizens to vote, as long as they're not likely to be the type of voters (white, rural, and/or Evangelical) who vote for their party.
     
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