“Each of the 591,548 voters affected by the move had already been on the state’s ‘inactive’ registration list,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported this week. That means those voters had not cast a ballot, updated their registration or address or responded to efforts to contact them for at least three years.

Republicans know that a lower voter turnout in an election usually means a win for a GOP candidate. The choice of Georgia’s Registrar of Voters to declare the voter registration of 591,548 men and women null and void is an obvious effort to suppress the number of voters in 2018.

‘Let America Vote,’ a voter advocacy group, sent a letter to Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, informing him that federal laws do not stipulate the removal of voter registration based upon the fact that they have not voted recently.

The group’s senior policy adviser, Leigh Chapman, said that they were “troubled by Georgia’s actions” related to President Donald Trump’s controversial Commission on Election Integrity.

Let’s be honest here. Southern states, Indiana, Texas, and Arizona do not support the Constitution; they support Donald Trump. They believe that his support of white supremacy is what will ‘make America great again.’ These and other red states have taken actions which would make it more difficult for minorities to cast their ballots. There is some good news; as the old, white men and women in these states leave their earthly bonds, they will be replaced by young men and women who are less likely to be racist and bigoted.

Our founding fathers believed that the most important section of the Constitution was the Bill of Rights. They considered the first amendment to be their greatest accomplishment. It guarantees our most cherished rights and beliefs as Americans. This is where the right to vote becomes important and critical. Hillary Clinton lost the Electoral College by only 78,000 votes on November 8, 2016. We have nearly 250 million eligible voters in the U.S., but only 55 percent of them went to the polls.

The first election when millennials vote in large numbers will decide the outcome. They are now the largest voting bloc in America, and when the realize the importance of voting; how every man and woman shapes the direction in which our country moves, they will understand that this privilege; this right, must be used every two years.

Our country must not have another man like Trump defiling the White House, which he calls a “dump.”

Please re-post; thank you.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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