Grassroots Misused: Georgia’s Political Shakeup and Voting Tech Concerns

The tar­nished “grass­roots” label amid Georgia’s polit­i­cal maneu­ver­ing. With the leg­isla­tive ses­sion near­ing Sine Die, Jon Ossoff chal­lenges MTG for the US Sen­ate race but fears Kemp’s draw as a top-tick­et con­tender. Lucy McBath sus­pends her cam­paign due to her husband’s can­cer, while Keisha Lance Bot­toms and Jason Carter emerge as Demo­c­ra­t­ic options. A judge dis­miss­es an elec­tion secu­ri­ty case after 7 years, yet her 23-page sum­ma­ry flags con­cerns over Georgia’s hack­able vot­ing machines, despite Raffensperger’s defense of the Domin­ion sys­tem, rais­ing ques­tions about elec­toral integri­ty and polit­i­cal strat­e­gy.

• Grass­roots title has been ruined and used inap­pro­pri­ate­ly. 
• They are look­ing at all the con­sti­tu­tion­al offi­cers in GA and the State House and State Sen­ate and the big tick­et US Sen­ate. Jon Ossoff is get­ting a lit­tle dar­ing and has dared MTG in the race. He would like MTG in the race but he doesn’t want Kemp on the tick­et. They need a draw­ing card on the big tick­et and that would be Kemp in Geor­gia. They are look­ing for the top of the tick­et. After Sine Die, Fri­day night, who will be the first to release. And if eti­quette was in play that they will work for Kemp to make a move and it will look bad if you come out before Kemp, the adjust­ments will be made. 
• Lucy McBath says she is sus­pend­ing her cam­paign because her hus­band has just been diag­nosed with can­cer. Keisha Lance Bot­toms is still out there. Jason Carter, Jim­my Carter’s grand­son, is mak­ing an appear­ance. He is telling fel­low democ­rats to con­sid­er him. 
• Judge dis­miss­es elec­tion secu­ri­ty case but voice con­cerns about GA vot­ing com­put­er. Now why would she write a 23 page sum­ma­ry for a dis­missal, and instead of writ­ing the facts she writes about her sub­stan­tial con­cerns about GA vot­ing tech­nol­o­gy which uses touch­screens to print paper bal­lots. We watched the Hal­der­man report and the hack­ing of the machines. The machines were installed months before the 2020 elec­tion. Raf­fensperg­er says “all the real world evi­dence shows that the GA paper bal­lot sys­tem (wink, wink — Domin­ion) works well.”
• The Raf­fensperg­er Toten­berg case took 7 years to decide the plain­tiff didn’t have stand­ing.