Inside Georgia’s Voter Registration Rolls: A Surge of Implausible Addresses
Independent journalist David Khait, who has reported on alleged irregularities in Georgia’s voter registration rolls, stated he does not agree with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s contention that the state’s rolls are the “cleanest in the nation.”
“I don’t agree with that at all,” Khait said. “Because anybody from the secretary of state’s office can just get in their car, drive eight minutes, and see an empty lot.”
“But when you can purchase the voter rolls for $45 like I did, and you get the most updated ones—which I obtained on January 3—and you can see that a person is for some reason registered to vote currently on those rolls, there you start to question why anyone from that office won’t go down there and see for themselves exactly what I saw.”
Khait showed clips of his reporting in which he claims Georgia’s voter registration rolls list dozens— and in some cases hundreds—of voters with addresses at locations such as empty lots, a highway underpass, a homeless shelter, and private mailbox businesses in Fulton County.
He described an address that he called physically implausible: “Just two more minutes down the road, you’ll find an individual registered to vote under an underpass,” he said. “There’s no mailboxes under a bridge.”
Khait also cited a storefront address in Atlanta: “We’re at a UPS Store located at 2625 Piedmont Road NE in Atlanta, Fulton County, where apparently 96 people are right now actively registered to vote.”
“The law says you’re supposed to be registered at your house, a primary residence,” he said. “So how can someone 96 people claim a UPS store to be their private residence?”
Raffensperger, meanwhile, stated in a press release on Thursday that he is pushing for legislation requiring voters to show a REAL ID to be eligible to vote, urging lawmakers to pass the change as part of an effort “to ensure only U.S. citizens vote in Georgia elections.”
“I have made Georgia the safest and most secure place to vote in the country,” Raffensperger said. “Requiring REAL ID adds an extra layer of protection. Before you fly or enter a federal building, you need to show your REAL ID; voting should be no different.”
“REAL ID is the gold standard in identification,” he added. “The General Assembly needs to pass this legislation this session to safeguard our elections.”
