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This subreddit is for discussion of political happenings within the state of Georgia.

My Voter Page - check registration status, find where to go to vote, see which offices you can vote for and which candidates are on the ballot


Rules

1. Post Relevance

Posts should be related to one of the following:

  • Legislation in Georgia (anything from city to state-wide)
  • Actions of Georgia's elected officials (including our US Reps and Senators)
  • Upcoming political events in Georgia (city council meetings, protests, rallies, elections)
  • Meta posts are not allowed, except as needed by the mod team.

2. Civility

Remain civil at all times

  • Don't insult other redditors
  • Don't make assumptions or condescend
  • Don't make broad generalized statements about opposing groups
  • With respect to public officials, criticism should be leveled at policies they support/oppose
  • Exceptions for the above will be made for public officials doing blatantly awful things. This is the Jason Spencer exemption.

3. Sources

When making a definitive claim of fact be prepared to back it up by linking sources, such as articles from (reasonably) nonbiased news outlets or scholarly studies that support your claim. You can't say "this law will turn the sky green" unless you can link a verifiable article stating "another state passed this law and the sky turned green". You can't say "Jason Spencer is a bigot" unless you can link a verifiable article stating "Jason Spencer used derogatory racial slurs on television".


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The View's Co-host Sunny Hostin mentioned Georgia's 100,000 Puerto Rican residents during a recent broadcast

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2024/10/28
19:43 UTC

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Trump’s Fascism - Compilation

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2024/10/27
02:04 UTC

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Reagan/Bush ‘84 Signs? What’s that about?

I'm in Cherokee and have been seeing these signs (instead of the usual "Trump GOOD Kamala BAD" signs). Apparently it's not a new thing but I've never noticed them before.

Does anyone know what it's about? Anyone else seeing them?

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2024/10/26
23:25 UTC

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Trump’s FASCISM

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2024/10/26
19:31 UTC

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Voting for President in America Does Not Matter

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2024/10/25
21:15 UTC

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Help, someone changed my voter address and I just discovered it. Intended to vote tomorrow.

I'm planning on early voting tomorrow in Fulton county/Atlanta, and when I logged onto the My Voter Page just now to pull my sample ballot someone has changed my residential address from Buckhead to Cascades outside the perimeter. What do I do? This isn't my address and I believe it will affect my ballot as well.

ETA: On the my voter page I have confirmation someone changed my address at 11AM 10/22/24. I desperately need help, I don't know where to start fixing this.

ETA2: If this happens to you, immediately call your county registrar, call the voter protection hotline, and report it on the SOS website. Registrar should be able to fix it but if not protection hotline can help you navigate your rights and options.

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2024/10/25
01:57 UTC

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TRUMP’S FASCISM

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2024/10/24
19:34 UTC

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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Georgia Supreme Court Blocks Controversial Election Rules

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2024/10/23
12:54 UTC

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Trump - Fascism Compilation

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2024/10/23
07:15 UTC

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If you send me huge amounts of mailers, it makes me not want to vote for you.

Idk about ya'll, but this year has been absolutely awful for my house in terms of mailers, I swear i've gotten about 40 in the past week. They're all hyper sensationalized, with no helpful information on them. Really seems like a waste of paper, and a waste of USPS resources.

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2024/10/23
03:25 UTC

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I'm Sarah Kallis, politics reporter for GPB News. Do you have questions about the 2024 Election? Ask me anything! - POST QUESTIONS ON THE ORIGINAL POST or it won't be seen

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2024/10/21
23:31 UTC

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Sign this petition to oppose subversive efforts to ban books in public libraries.

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2024/10/20
20:45 UTC

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🚨Georgia Court Makes MAJOR RULING on Election: State Elections Board Gets Checked

MAGA and Trump have suffered a major setback in their plans to disrupt the voting in Georgia by delaying certification of the vote with an Atlanta area judge ruling that under all circumstances, a county board of election must certify its results by the dates required in Georgia law and cannot any circumstances refuse to certify the vote total. Michael Popok analyzes the first of 2 orders to be issued by Judge McBurney to address MAGA’s last-minute plans to try to tip the election to Trump.

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hG-oFqJEhg

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2024/10/15
21:24 UTC

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Explaining Ballot Measures Megathread

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2024/10/15
14:24 UTC

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Early voting starts today!

Let’s go folks! Go vote. Check your My Voter Ga page for times and locations.

https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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2024/10/15
12:47 UTC

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Cobb GOP Chairwoman Salleigh Grubbs was in DC for January 6

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2024/10/15
02:06 UTC

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MAGA militants planning to riot on December 11, the date designated by the Constitution as the Certificate of Ascertainment deadline.

 Put it in your calendar:  MAGA militants will riot on December 11.
This time, you won’t have to wait for January 6.
Why is December 11 the new January 6? 

The day that should give any lover of democracy the shivers is December 11.  That’s the date designated by the Constitution as the Certificate of Ascertainment deadline. 

If you have never heard of the “Certificate of Ascertainment” date, you’d better bone up.  That’s the day by which every Governor must send the National Archives the final list of Electors to the Electoral College after that state “certifies” those votes.  If the Certificate never arrives, the state gives away its Electoral votes.
 Think about that.  If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the popular vote, say, in Georgia, the Governor could withhold the certificate certifying Harris’ Electoral College representatives.  (The Constitution gives that power to each Governor.)

If, as a result, neither Harris nor Trump gets that magical 270 Electoral votes, then the election gets tossed into the 12^(th) Amendment process.  Then, look out!

All Electoral College votes from every state are then tossed out.  Under the 12**^(th)** **Amendment, the President will be chosen by a vote of the states—**one vote per state.  That means that South Dakota gets one vote, California gets one vote and DC gets no vote at all.  As Republicans control 26 state delegations, Trump wins.  Hail to the Thief!
 
That’s where the riots come in.  It was a waste of the Q-Anon Shaman’s gang jail time to have tried to hang Mike Pence, because the Constitution says The Vice President ,,,

“…shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.”

Note the word, “shall.”  There ain’t nothing in there that says the Veep can just say, “Nah, I’m not going to open the envelope from Georgia.”  Trump hoped Pence would be like an actor at the Academy Awards who throws away the envelope with the winner’s name, announcing, “Naw! I’m not going to give Leonardo another one.” 

If the insurrectionists had not taken Trump’s advice that, “It will be wild” on January 6, they could possibly have succeeded in overturning the election by stopping certification on December 11 through mayhem, chaos and intimidation in state Capitols. 

What Governor would go along with not certifying their own state’s vote?  In 2020, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia told Trump he had no authority under Georgia law to overturn the election.  Here’s the bad news:  the law has changed in Georgia.  Kemp, who’s now kissed and made up with Trump, can not only refuse to certify the election, he could be required to withhold the certification if Harris wins.

Say what?  A new law has empowered Georgia’s State Election Board, controlled by MAGA extremists, to reject any county’s results.  This is scary: the Board already voted a resolution saying that, in 2020, they would not have certified the vote in Fulton County.  That’s Atlanta.  If even one county is not certified, then the Governor is not allowed to certify any Electors to the Electoral College.  In that case, Harris loses Georgia’s 16 Electoral votes, possibly pushing her below the 270 threshold.  Then America gets dragged into the 12^(th) Amendment swamp.

In swing state North Carolina, the GOP-controlled legislature voted a similar non-certification law, though it’s been held up by a federal court, subject to appeal.

There are likely to be other Republican governors who may hesitate to certify the vote if their Capitol is on fire on December 11, especially if Trump is calling for blood.  You think he won’t?

Ali Alexander, founder of the Trump front group “Stop the Steal,” along with Alex Jones, was Trump’s designated leader of the illegal march on the Capitol on January 6, 2020.  But weeks before, on November 19, Alexander led a mob outside the Georgia Governor’s mansion in Atlanta.  Our cameraman Zach D. Roberts, filmed Alexander shouting through a bullhorn,  “Unless they give us Trump, we’re going to light the whole shit on fire!”

We should have paid attention. 

This time, threats could become deeds—and not just in Atlanta.  Look for well-planned “spontaneous” riots in swing state capitals won by Harris.  Roberts, who goes undercover inside the violent Right, tells me, “They looked at January 6 as a victory.  It’s practice.”  He explains that the uber-Right knows how to create mayhem, especially where the police are secretly (or not so secretly) sympathetic, even in cahoots, with the insurrectionists.

In our film, Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen, we’ve warned that MAGA fanatics have already this year challenged the right of 851,000 voters to have their ballots counted, overwhelmingly voters of color.  That’s enough for them, if their challenges are rejected, to cry, “VOTER FRAUD!” – and physically prevent the Electoral certification process.

The Electors who are certified by a Governor must meet in their Capitols by December 17^(th), another chance for mayhem, a chance to stop the Electors from casting their ballots.  Anything which delays their vote can disqualify a state’s Electoral votes which, in a close election, condemns us to 12^(th) Amendment hell.

This is a whole lot of complex law involving parts of the Constitution you didn’t study in civics class—because we never thought we’d have a group of dedicated fascists (and that’s a polite description) who would use violence to twist the Constitution into a weapon to destroy democracy.

Can’t happen?  As historian Dr. Stan Deaton explains in Vigilantes Inc., in 1876, a never-before used codicil of the Constitution disqualified one Democratic Electoral College member, allowing the Ku Klux Klan Democrats of the South to join forces with Republican industrialists to win the Presidency for the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, though the Republican had actually lost both the popular and Electoral College votes. 

Riots can and have elected our President.  Recall the “Brooks Brothers riot” of 2000?

On November 22, 2000, election officials were trying to complete the count of ballots in Miami-Dade County. Democrat Al Gore was racking up the votes in Miami when a Republican Congressmen John E. Sweeney, joining the mob inside the Elections office, gave the signal to, “Shut it down!”  Suddenly, the well-dressed rioters began to smash up the voting office.  In fear for their lives, officials halted the vote count.

But there was something odd about these rioters.  As the Wall Street Journal, of all papers, reported, the rioters were, “50-year-old white lawyers with cell phones in Hermès ties,” Republican Party staffers, guys in Brooks Brothers suits.  This “spontaneous” riot was organized in advance for the GOP by convicted felon Roger Stone.  And it worked.  Florida’s Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris stopped the count in Miami and statewide, declaring Bush the victor by just 537 votes.  Had the riot not stopped the Miami-Dade count, Al Gore would have been elected President.
 
The GOP and MAGA Right know this:  riots work.  And if there a few dead bodies along the way, including the corpse of our Body Politic, hey, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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2024/10/13
23:51 UTC

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