“This is a tribute,” said Tversa Ricks, another Clark Atlanta student and march organizer. “We don’t have to worry about dogs or hoses or people spitting on us. All we had to do was use our ID.”

She must be a very old college student if she’s had to worry about dogs, hoses and people spitting on her while standing in-line.

Good job on the overall demagoging, but you missed a key point that you’ll learn as you mature from a “march organizer” to “community organizer”: don’t concede how easy and unntimidating it is to produce a photo ID. John Lewis and the Democrat Party of GA want you to believe that producing an id card is the same thing as having dogs and hoses released on you.

The Justice Department’s only authority here is to preclear (or not) a change in the law (or a rule or reg). There having been none (and no ability for Handel to obtain a change), there’s nothing she can ask the Justice Department to do (and nothing the Justice Department is authorized to do under Section 5).
As for the disqualification of voters, there was no “change in law” that required preclearance – and the AG’s office agrees. Therefore, the two situations are nothing alike. Both times there’s been no change in the law.

As for Powell and Conlon, you know those have nothing to do with this issue. Apples and oranges.

She didn’t have any problem acting without pre-clearance when she was dq’ing voter registrations over typos.

Add that to the court beatdowns she’s taken on the Conlon and Powell disqualifications, and she’s clearly basing these decisions on politics.

Bad news.

From the “Columbian Centinel,” No. 52 of vol. XV, Boston, Mass. September 10, 1791
Page 2.

Georgia

Savannah, July 29, 1791

We the grand jury Chatham county in the state aforesaid, present:

I. The election held at Elberton, in the county of Effingham, on the 3rd day of January last for a member to represent the Lower District of this state in the Congress of the United States, as illegal, there being nine votes more than voters, and two of the persons who presided at said election, and certified the return, were not qualified as magistrates agreeable to law; and for other illegal practices, as appears by the affidavits of Capt. Nathaniel Hudson, John London, and Jesse Hill, Esqrs. Christian Dasher, John Wisenberger, John Eigle, Robert Williams and John Moore.

II. We present James Spalding, Richard Leake and John Goode, Esqrs. presiding magistrates at the election held in the county of Glynn, for a member to represent the Lower District of this state in the Congress of the United States for neglecting to send to the governour the return of the said election agreeable to law.

III. We present Langley Bryant, Henry Wright, and Hugh Brown, Esqrs. presiding magistrates at a legal election held at the town of St. Patrick , in the county of Camden on the 3rd of January last, for a member to represent the lower district of this state in the Congress of the United States, for neglecting to sent to the governour a true state of the poll after the same was duly executed by said magistrates, as appears by the affidavits of Samuel Smith, Sherrif of said county, Daniel Miller, and John Alexander, superintending clerks at said election, and James Gray.

IV. We present the Hon. Henry Osbourne, Esq. James Armstrong, and Robert Seagrove, Esqrs. for holding an illegal poll for a member to Congress for the Lower District of this state on the night of the 3rd day of January last, after a legal one had been held, closed and certified; and for certifying and sending to the governour a return of said illegal poll as a just one. We also present Langley Bryant and Henry Wright, Esqrs. for having joined the said Henry Osbourne, James Armstrong, and Robert Seagrove, in certifying the aforesaid illegal poll, as appears by the affidavits of Samuel Smith, Daniel Miller, John Alexander, and James Gray. And we most earnestly recommend to the legislature at their next meeting to impeach every person who is charged by the aforementioned affidavits, or against whom other proofs may appear, for so daring an attack on the liberties of a free people.

[Signed by James Cochran, foreman, and 15 other Jurymen,]

Agree with you that if a preclearance submission concerns something the Voting Section at the DOJ, i.e., the Democratic Party WANTS, it would be precleared in a number of minutes. However, if it’s not, it won’t. See currently-pending preclearance submission on citizenship verification which has now been there several weeks.

However, Handel – a member of the Executive branch – cannot simply decide to change the polling hours which have been determined by the legislative branch and then send that change up for preclearance. The General Assembly would have to make the change and then the state could submit for preclearance. I am sure you would agree that if Handel wanted to make the hours shorter than the statute provides, she couldn’t just submit that change for preclearance because she had no ability to change the law. Same goes here.

Even if she could make the change, the 25 year renewal of Section 5 preclearance provisions mean that we can’t make the change in Georgia without the federal government OK’ing it. Falls into the category “Be careful what you wish for – you may get it.”

Mmm … and even admirers breaking out the “Harris” word.

But she refuses to make the request…says it would tax her poor state employees too much. Ha!

Please provide the examples of Democrats in this state lying, cheating and stealing elections because I’m sure that it is just so obvious and you can’t believe nobody did anything.

Thanks for proving YOU are a total asshole.

Icarus, I’m not saying she is a partisan hack because of long lines. I am saying she is a partisan hack because instead of attempting to alleviate a problem that is her job to oversee, no matter anyone’s political whims, she now hides behind the old SOP line.

And its harder to get answers for licensing issues and the website sucks monkey ass.

Your first statement seemed to attempt to draw a clear line that the long waits are in Democrat controlled areas, and that somehow, it’s the S.O.S. fault.

Now you want to say that Republican controlled areas are long too, so therefore, the S.O.S. must be a partisan hack.

And at least one Republican county seems to have got it right. Fayette County has had over 1/3 of its voters vote already, and they haven’t been experiencing lines like you described, as documented by both local TV and print media.

http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/32843

Glad to see you think it’s only a “partisan” thing when a Republican is doing her job by trying to enforce the law, but you have likely ignored it when Dems lie, cheat, and steal elections.

Thank you for proving YOU are a pissant Democrat moron.

Also, please just this once, in your heart of hearts that you know this is true, just admit that she is a partisan hack and is doing her best to cover the GOP’s butts.

It seems funny to me that most election problems tend to come from heavily Democrat areas. Especially when the local governments and boards of elections are run by Democrats.

The local board determines how many voting machines are available and where they will be deployed. This isn’t a S.O.S. function.

If the problems tend to only occur in Democrat areas, it should be a good sign on how well Democrats run governement.