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GEORGIA DEMOCRATS PREPPING TO FIGHT OVER 50,000 CLAIMED VOTER REGISTRATIONS - Kerry Picket/Breitbart
Democrats in Georgia are crying foul over ruling made by a Fulton County Judge who dismissed a lawsuit filed by the NAACP and the New Georgia Project (NGP), a 501c3 founded by the state House’s Democratic minority leader, Stacey Abrams, against the state’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp and six local county election offices accusing the officials of not processing 50,000 pending voter registration applications....
According to Mahoney, the New Georgia Project initially refused to provide information pertaining to applications for voter registrations they collected several months ago, so Kemp launched an investigation into the New Georgia Project after he received several complaints from county election officials that NGP had potentially fraudulent voter registration applications after they were received complaints from voters.
Mahoney explained, “Voters who would say, ‘Yeah, these people approached our door and said we had to register again or said that we weren’t registered. We needed to register even though we were registered or that it was already filled out and they said that we had to sign this or we’d get trouble.’ So Kemp launches an investigation.”
At that point, Kemp’s office sent out subpoenas to the New Georgia Project and, according to Mahoney, around that time is when “the New Georgia Project started to raise Cain and have kind of publicity stunts at the Capitol and call Kemp a racist and somebody who is trying to suppress voters.”
The bipartisan state elections board met to see if there was enough evidence to have a full scale investigation. They agreed to do so and moved forward it.
“In that first round, that kind of general investigation was to kind of see if they needed to launch a full scale investigation, they found upwards of a hundred fraudulent voter registration applications,” said Mahoney.
He added, “So the spin from the New Georgia Project was, ‘Well that’s only a hundred.’ And the New Georgia Project has claimed they submitted 50,000 voter registration applications, although that number has yet to be verified. They said that and Kemp pushed back and said, ‘Every count of voter fraud could essentially carry up to 10 years.’ It’s a felony. So this is a big deal. So they continue to press on.”
New Georgia Project refused to provide the list of 50,000 and eventually provided a list to the media, The WSJ reported, citing privacy. Eventually a list was provided to Kemp's office
“40,000 of the 50,000 were already registered to vote in the system—all good to go. Five thousand of them were being processed. They were submitted with inadequate information and letters had been sent by county election offices requiring more details,” said Mahoney. “And then the rest of the group were made up names—were felons or were duplicates.”...
