Justice Department chastises Georgia over voting rights. Conservatives respond with shaky claims

In a decision released on Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice directed the Georgia Secretary of State to discontinue a system being used to verify the citizenship of Georgia voters. In it’s letter to Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, the Justice Department stated that the verification system “does not produce accurate and reliable information and that thousands of citizens who are in fact eligible to vote under Georgia law have been flagged.” The department also found that those citizens flagged as non-citizens were overwhelmingly Black, Asian or Hispanic. Click to read full article...

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