{"id":18171,"date":"2018-10-31T21:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18171"},"modified":"2018-10-31T21:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:31:26","slug":"premature-voting-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/10\/31\/premature-voting-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Premature Voting, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candidate Abrams continues her legal winning streak in the Georgia gubernatorial race<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A federal judge knocked down a motion from Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp against a previous temporary restraining order that changes the way election officials handle absentee ballots in the state.<\/p>\n

US District Court Judge Leigh Martin May rejected Kemp\u2019s arguments point by point and concluded the “injunction ensures that absentee voters who are unable to vote in person and whose applications or ballots are rejected based on a signature mismatch will still have the opportunity to have their votes counted in the upcoming election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, also filed an emergency motion Tuesday with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. He argued, \u201cthe district court issued a preliminary injunction that requires 159 Georgia counties to make immediate, significant changes to those longstanding procedures right in the middle of an ongoing statewide general election,\u201d which he said threatens to \u201cdisrupt the orderly administration of elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, May, the judge,\u00a0ordered<\/a>\u00a0that Georgia election officials stop rejecting absentee ballots with voters’ signatures that do not appear to match those on record.\u00a0[CNN<\/a>]<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m wondering about this “long-standing” claim of Kemp’s. PolitiFact<\/strong><\/em> seems to indicate<\/a> the law is only a year old:<\/p>\n

Under a\u00a02017 Georgia law<\/a>, a voter registration application is complete if information on that form exactly matches records kept by Georgia\u2019s Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s no match, it\u2019s placed on a pending status and the applicant is notified in the form of a\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0from the county board of registrars about the need to provide additional documentation. It\u2019s then up to the applicant to provide sufficient evidence to verify his or her identify.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But perhaps the reference can be twisted to mean something far more innocent, eh? There are days I get tired of the picky word shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Candidate Abrams continues her legal winning streak in the Georgia gubernatorial race: A federal judge knocked down a motion from Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp against a previous temporary restraining order that changes the way election officials handle absentee ballots in the state. US District Court Judge Leigh Martin \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18172,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions\/18172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}