Steve Benen provides an update on an issue discussed last week on the Rachel Maddow Show.
Civil rights groups sue over Ga. voter backlog
Georgia may be considered a reliably “red” state in the Deep South, but this year, it’s home to two closely watched, highly competitive statewide races. In fact, recent polling suggests Georgia’ U.S. Senate race and gubernatorial race may even go to a runoff.
But it’s the voter-registration materials that may ultimately matter most. According to the New Georgia Project, the group has submitted “more than 80,000 new voter applications to county election boards.” But as Election Day nears, the New Georgia Project says roughly half of these new voters, some of whom registered months ago, are not yet on the voter rolls.
My question is why isn't this front page news? A significant number of voter registrations are unaccounted for. Where are all the calls for protecting these voters' rights?
Try to imagine if the expected party affiliation was switched and the expectation was that these would result in new Republican voters.
How do we raise the profile of this occurence?
Tue Oct 14, 2014 at 8:44 AM PT: Thanks for rec'ing this up. I think it deserves much more attention then it is getting. Since the traditional media has so far ignored this event maybe with your help we can raise this within the blogosphere. I've only seen this on the Maddow Blog and Rachel's show. Please help get this more attention.
A quick search of the news this morning I did find this WSJ article:
http://blogs.wsj.com/...
but I don't think there is anything in it that wasn't covered by Steven Benen that I originally link. Let's help get this some attention.