If you’re “the wrong people,” GOP’s Karen Handel doesn’t want you to vote

In May, voting rights groups went to Federal Court to overturn a Georgia law restricting ballot access. Karen Handel didn’t like the judge’s decision, which allowed people to register to vote until the federal deadline for the June 20 runoff for the Sixth District Congressional runoff she’s running in against Democrat Jon Ossoff. It was a slam dunk: Federal election, federal rules. State officials complied with the new ruling. Thousands more voters is good, right? Not if you’re Karen Handel. Like many Republicans, she thinks voting by the “wrong people” is a crime. In an email to supporters, she said: Uh…voting is not a crime. What should be crimes? Republicans’ repeated attempts to suppress voting, that’s what. In their desperate attempt to…

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Can Tucker Rec flip the Sixth?

I’m Scott Holcomb’s yard sign guy, and over the past decade, I’ve regularly worked the area east of I-85 for Democratic candidates: The Tucker-Lakeside precincts, what I call “The Lower Thirteen.”  And I’ve gotta tell you: I’ve never seen anything like this year’s Sixth District Race. Nothing comes close to the frenzied energy of the countless volunteers in this race.. And if you think there’s a lot of confusion, this is my 12th campaign, and I can assure you that there is always confusion. It’s an integral part of the game, especially for volunteers. The Ossoff campaign has directed a great deal of resources to this area recently, having opened up a Tucker office on Fourth Street across from the self-serve car…

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Vote Early! Vote Ossoff! Early Vote Schedule Handout

Here’s a DeKalb Schedule for Early Voting at Tucker, Chamblee, Dunwoody, Brookhaven, and Memorial Drive locations. Down  this Dekalb Early Vote Schedule, print it out, and give to people as you canvass and do other things to flip the Sixth!

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Rally to put Pleasantdale back on the #GA06 map!

DeKalb’s Pleasantdale Precinct gets no respect: ignored, gerrymandered, split, and now missing in action on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s election map.             Notice the missing chunk of turf along the DeKalb Gwinnett County line? That’s North DeKalb’s bluest precinct, crucial for Ossoff. It could be his key to victory in a tight race. While Pleasantdale gave Jon Ossoff his highest margin in Dekalb (80%), turnout was exceptionally low due to lack of canvass/contact and poor early voting sites. Three-quarters of Pleasantdale Precinct’s 3,500 voters didn’t vote in the April 18 primary. Turnout will be critical to improving Ossoff’s chances in the runoff. Fortunately, Sally Harrell and other activists won a victory at the DeKalb Board of Elections, so…

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Why didn’t DeKalb Elections Board stick with 7 am-7 pm early voting?

Saturday morning, I received an email noting a change in DeKalb County’s early voting schedule for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District Runoff. Dunwoody Library is gone, replaced by Dunwoody Methodist Church. Disruptive, perhaps, but there’s some good news, as well: The new site will open earlier, on May 30, in line with the other new EV locations in Tucker, Chamblee, and Brookhaven. In a tweet, the Board (@DeKalbVotes) called this a “correction.” That’s not what it is. It’s a change. And as long as the Board is making changes—or “corrections”—I would suggest that an even more appropriate change/correction would be to bring the hours of operation at all Early Voting sites in line with widespread public demand for expanded hours from 7:00 a.m.…

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