Governor Kemp On Ruthless Podcast To Talk About Elections; GAGOP Releases Elections Reform Proposals
Update: The episode is live now. Give it a listen. Governor Kemp’s interview starts at about 48 minutes. (Strong language warning, so maybe don’t listen in the car with the kiddos.)
We noticed that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will be on the Ruthless Podcast (dropping Tuesday) talking about Georgia elections. (via @ComfortablySmug over on Twitter)
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— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) February 9, 2021
Dropping TOMORROW
The no holds barred interview with @GovKemp about what happened
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We’ve got a big interview tomorrow. @GovKemp answering the tough questions about the election in Georgia.
— Ruthless Podcast (@RuthlessPodcast) February 9, 2021
The GAGOP has also released their recommendations for changes to Georgia’s election process in a press release tweeted out earlier this evening.
The Georgia Republican Party’s Election Confidence Task Force, created by Chairman @DavidShafer, has released its reported recommendations with the unanimous approval of the State Executive Committee.#gapolhttps://t.co/LWwASyeGZ3
— GAGOP (@GaRepublicans) February 9, 2021
You can read the full report posted by the Georgia Republican Party on their website, but here are some bullet points from the presser:
- Requiring photo ID verification for all absentee ballot applications and ballots, ending the legally compromised system of signature verification, to combat ballot harvesting and absentee ballot fraud.
- Allowing observers at each step of the process, including ballot verification and duplication, with meaningful access, not the sham access allowed under the Secretary of State’s official election bulletins.
- Allowing videotaping of all election activity except voters casting their ballots.
- Eliminating unmanned ballot drop boxes (or, alternatively, mandating a strict chain of custody procedure) to combat supposedly ballot harvesting and absentee ballot fraud.
- Removing no-excuse absentee by-mail voting, allowing absentee ballots only for voters who have a specific reason. Current Georgia law is more liberal than New York law.
- Eliminating third-party and government solicitation of absentee ballot applications. The myriad of solicitations created voter confusion and opens the door to illegal ballot harvesting and fraud.
- Making “Motor Voter” voter registration at drivers license offices opt-in, rather than automatic, to reduce the number of ineligible voters accidentally added to the voter registration list.
- Requiring any organization registering voters to first register with the Secretary of State who will maintain a public list of registered organizations and the number of registrations each organization has collected.
- Replacing all Dominion software with auditable and transparent software.
- Enacting revolving door ethics restrictions on Secretary of State employees.
- Prohibiting so-called mobile voting locations, except in the case of a natural disaster. (Mobile voting locations – vans driven around by Fulton County elections workers with bullhorns – are not authorized by the current Georgia Election Code and an open invitation for fraud.)
- Requiring all third party election grants to be made to the State Elections Board for uniform distribution throughout the state.
- Streamlining the process for election contests and giving the Supreme Court original jurisdiction over Presidential election contests.
- Streamlining the process for voter challenges. County elections boards groundlessly ignored or rejected challenges with impunity.
- Giving the State Board of Elections the power to temporarily appoint county elections superintendents in the event of incompetence or repeated violations of the Election Code.
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Boy, these are some stupid proposals based on conspiracy theories. Replace Dominion with auditable software? Do they not know that Dominion has a paper trail or is this just more fleece the rubes nonsense? I am fine with getting rid of the third party absentee ballot requests but I think that is going to hurt the GOP more than anyone.
When most of your party believes the big lie that Trump won in Georgia, this is what you do.
No one thinks Perdue and Loeffler lost their jobs because of dem interference/bad software/corrupt officials or for any reasons except they were lousy candidates running on lousy platforms who got outworked by the other side. It’s only Trump whose losses make gopers run in circles and piddle like puppies, a fact we’ll see demonstrated yet again in DC starting today.
I tried to listen. Skipped to the Guv’s interview. His attempt to distance himself from the SoS for doing the right thing may help with the Always Trumpers, but I doubt it. His touting of his own actions as SoS would be laughable but pales in comparison to the insurrectionists in his own party who even attempted to nominate substitute electors to subvert the people’s vote. Remember his press conference as SoS on the Capitol steps with “tens of thousands” of fraudulent voter registrations and a dozen or so Banker’s Boxes brimming with paper? He promised jail for them all, but then actual investigations yielded 13 or so erroneous ones and none prosecutable.
I didn’t want the Dominion machines when it came up for a vote because of the machine only readable coding, but Republicans voted them in. No excuse absentee ballots were also a Republican idea in 2005. Video recording of voting? Hell No! Allow the state board to override local control? Damn, in allegiance to Trump they are even throwing out Reagan. I could shoot at each of these butt hurt responses to unfounded conspiracies stemming from a losing demagogue but before I get to the tldr stage it boils down to this: If Republicans stick with David Shafer and the Always Trumpers Georgia is going to turn cobalt blue for the foreseeable future.
Gotta love the random comparison to New York as if that old scarecrow still scares anyone under 65 years old. We don’t want to follow the practices of New Yorkers like Donald Trump….
Also, New York has plenty of Republican areas. Also, there are a ton of Northeasterners here in GA. Also, a quick count has 35 states that allow no-excuse absentee voting by mail or are mail-only. Also, NY expanded excused absentee voting for Covid, and will probly fully update to no-excuse soon enough. Maybe the tag line should be: “We don’t want to get ahead of Mississippi or Alabama , do we?”