Georgia Republicans Suffer Massive Blow After Judge Halts Voter Purges

A judge this week ruled that a massive voter purge taking place in two Georgia counties had to be reversed before the Senate runoff elections on Tuesday. The majority of the voters that were purged came from a Democratic county that voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden, so it is incredibly likely that these voters all leaned Democratic. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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George's Senate runoff is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 5th, which happens to be the day before the electoral college votes are certified in a joint session of Congress. So January 5th, next Tuesday is going to be a big day. January 6th, Wednesday is a big day, but Tuesday let's be honest. That's the bigger one, because we don't know what the outcome of that one is going to be. We do know right now that 25% of the registered voters in the state of Georgia, 2.1 million people have already voted. And that is a massive, massive turnout for this Senate runoff that will determine which party controls the Senate. Now, earlier this week, Republicans in Georgia suffered a major blow. When a judge ruled that two counties, Ben Hill County and Muskogee County had to reverse their voter purges. Now in Muskogee County, thousands, thousands of voters had been purged, and this was a County by the way that Joe Biden had won by a large margin.

So it is likely it is fairly safe to assume because we don't have the list of registrations that these were most likely statistically people who voted Democrat and the other they've been Hill County, 150 people had been purged. This was County Trump won. So of course, Trump County, you only get 150 people purge Biden County, literally more than 4,000 people purged from the voting rolls and considering how close the presidential election was in the state of Georgia. A couple thousand voters could easily determine the outcome, but the judge stepped in and said, this is an illegal purge. You have to reverse it. These people who registered did so lawfully, put them back on the voting rolls. Now this isn't the typical, by the way, voter purge of purge, excuse me, that we usually see, these were people who had just registered. Uh, they tried to say either that they didn't get the registration in time or that they believe they may have registered at an incorrect address.

Um, they had no evidence for any of this. It's just an assumption. Usually when we say these voter purges, we'll see other more creative, um, claims like, Oh, well this person, we thought they were an inmate. We thought they were a former felon because they have the same name, John Smith. How are we to know there was two John Smiths in the state of Georgia, Florida, uh, pioneered that by the way, back in the 2000 election, uh, with their voter purges, Ohio has done it. Uh, they'll do it with, Hey, no, it says here that, uh, John Smith has deceased. And yet here is a John Smith voting. Obviously this is fraud. No two people are capable of having the same name, but they use it as a very flimsy excuse to purge people off the voting rolls, uh, over in Georgia, a little bit similar to except this one was mostly newly registered voters, either way big win for the state of Georgia, hopefully a big win for the Democrats, uh, as they were most likely the majority of what was purged, and I'm not talking about the democratic party victory for them.

We're talking about the individual human beings. Now you should be able to vote. If you encounter any issues whatsoever, please contact a voting integrity authority. Uh, please ask to fill out at least a provisional ballot. If they're telling you you can't vote at all, do not just say well, okay then, and walk away, do not be intimidated at the polls. I know we have to give this advice. Every election, this is a big one. This is super important. Do not let them turn you away. You know, your voting status. They only know what's on a piece of paper in front of them. That is likely flawed in many instances, trust your instincts, make phone calls if you have to, but do not let them turn you away.