Democrats were not shy about accusing Georgia officials of voter suppression during the 2018 election cycle, but quietly the state is among the nation’s leaders in voter registration. Three years ago officials with the Department of Driver Services, the Secretary of State’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office instituted an automatic voter registration process alongside the driver’s license application form. The program bumped up registration by 97%, adding nearly 700,000 Georgians to the voter rolls. So for as much heat as now-Gov.-then-SOS Brian Kemp took for suppressing votes in his gubernatorial campaign, it turns out his actions in his previous office had voter numbers majorly RISING…
Trump rally targets base & low propensity voters
President Donald Trump is in Dalton on Friday and his rally will certainly be a newsworthy event attended by a faithful base. And that’s the point. This is a base mid-term election (for both parties) and, as proven in the past, Trump can motivate not only the “MAGA GOP” but low propensity GOP and independent voters who otherwise might stay at home. Trump’s presence also seeks to boost GOP turnout for gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson and U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins. The rally will obviously generate publicity for Republicans and their policies but also Democrat attacks. In any event, since the margin of statewide victory for Georgia Republicans presently appears narrow, their hope is that the attention-grabbing rally will have their poll numbers RISING…
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