Federal judge hears case challenging #Georgia voter purges.

A #thread detailing some key points in this case.

For more follow @Greg_Palast and @BlackVotersMtr. https://www.ajc.com/politics/federal-judge-hears-case-challenging-georgia-voter-purges/6TA4QNYXABHSNNT52O4XIKRAX4/

1. Under the National Voter Registration Act a state has to use an official USPS licensee when determining if a voter has filed a change of address form with the National Change of Address registry before they can remove voters from the rolls on the grounds that they've moved.

2. Georgia used Total Data Technologies to do this, but the complaint states they are not a USPS licensee. https://www.gregpalast.com/wp-content/uploads/Fliled-Georgia-Complaint.pdf

3. During yesterday's hearing a witness called by the State of Georgia claimed reports submitted to them from Total Data Technologies had "Anchor" printed on them. This witness also stated he wasn't aware of what procedures Total Data actually used.

4. Anchor Computing is indeed a USPS licensee.

5. However—and this is key—in the last few days @Greg_Palast's mailing list expert John Lenser had Anchor run the subset of Georgia's purge list that were supposedly identified as having moved because they were on the National Change- of-Address register through their system.

Anchor's findings almost* exactly agreed with those in Palast's @ACLUofGA report which states that "fully 68,930 Georgia voters, were found not to have filed NCOA notices" — despite being marked on the State of Georgia's purge list as having done so. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.284201/gov.uscourts.gand.284201.1.0.pdf

*I say "almost" because there was a very minor difference of about 300 names, which you'd expect as some people do indeed move over the intervening months from when the analysis was originally done.

6. The BIG question is: How did Georgia get this list so wrong?

(I've yet to see any media outlet covering this case ask this question.)

7. Was there some seemingly innocent but catastrophic error made when the purge list was compiled by the State of Georgia in 2019?

8. Did Total Data lie about using Anchor? And, if so, where did this list of names that were supposed to be on the NCOA register (but weren't) come from?

9. Do the names on this bogus NCOA list have something else in common?

It's worth noting that the new info that came to light re. Anchor was the bombshell testimony of the day, which meant the defense didn’t really dispute the facts of the case.

Instead the defense relied on technicalities like standing, timing of filing, and whether, if voters were indeed wrongly purged (as they tacitly conceded), precedents such as that set by Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute applied.