Controversy over 40,000 ‘missing voters’ in Georgia is raising racial tensions in U.S. Senate race The real problem appears to be a Byzantine, error-prone system But the roughly 40,000 “missing” names are neither on the pending list nor the voter rolls, Abrams said. She also said that there are different estimates for how many names are missing — some are higher than 40,000 — thanks to there being more than one analysis of the data. Abrams’ group used a systematic approach to signing up new voters, she said. It trained paid staff to follow the same set of procedures, obtained permission to turn in registration forms, and then kept a database of all the names submitted into the registration process. The group has since “used a very sophisticated algorithm run by two different companies to try to match our names to the names on the voter rolls,” Abrams said. And no matter which way it runs the data, tens of thousands of new registrations that her group has logged and submitted up through the counties are missing from the state’s lists. “When we are tracking to see which of our voters have actually been placed on the rolls, we cannot definitively identify more than 40,000 of them,” she said. “The secretary of state is saying, ‘Oh don’t worry about it. We found them,’” Abrams said. Kemp announced in mid-October that his office had located all the names submitted by Abrams and the New Georgia Project and confirmed they are either on the voter rolls or on the pending list. But Kemp’s office, which responded to multiple requests for comment from Yahoo News with a lone email, to which was attached a court ruling dismissing the New Georgia Project’s complaint, will not show Abrams how it located these names, she said, and Abrams’ group says it still cannot find most of the registrants in the rolls. Kemp has declined to meet with Abrams until after the election is over. “We’re saying, ‘Well then, show it to us,’ because we have actually spoken to a number of applicants who have not received communication, who if they did receive communication attempted to resolve the issue but unsatisfactorily,” Abrams said. “We could be wrong, but we don’t know because they won’t tell us,” she said. news.yahoo/controversy-over-40-000--missing-voters--in-georgia-is-raising-racial-tensions-in-u-s--senate-race-184042552.html
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