Georgia Legislature Ends, Passes Bill Making it Harder to Register to Vote

The Georgia legislature adjourned Friday night, April 3, a few minutes before midnight. On the last day the House passed SB 86. It requires people who are registering to vote to submit either a birth certificate or, if the person was born in a foreign country, documents showing the person was born a citizen, or naturalization documents.

Although a great deal of work was done in the last six months to find a sponsor for Georgia ballot access reform, no bill was introduced in the 2009 session.

On the last day of the session, HB 848 was introduced, to move the presidential primary from February to March. Of course the bill could not be acted upon, having been introduced so late, but the bill will be introduced again in 2010. The Democratic National Committee hopes to move all presidential primaries and caucuses that choose delegates from February to March, except for the four states that have special permission to be earlier than March. Thanks to Joshua Putnam for the news about HB 848.


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  1. Tlhis look like a good idea. Look what we had in the 2008 election. The two major parties ran for
    President two persons that are not even citizens of the United States, viz., Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Obama) a person that has duel loyalies
    (Indonesia and Sultan Jamshid of Portsmouth, England [based on the Zanzibar Nationality Degree
    of 1953] and no loyalty to the United States; and
    John Sidney McCain III who was born in the Colon
    Hospital, Republic of Panama, whose mother Roberta
    McCain nee Wright never married John Sidney McCain
    II and just sacked up together. Because Roberta
    McCain never got married she could pass on United
    States Citizenship to John Sidney McCain under the
    terms of United States Code, Title 8, Section 5e,
    because the collective naturalization act of August
    4, 1937 had to be read with the terms of the Nationality Convention of 1930. Bottom line McCain’s mom was not an employee of the United States Government nor the Panama Railroad Company
    at the time of John Sidney McCain III’s birth
    in the Republic of Panama.

    Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American
    Independent Party.

  2. I gotta say, a party whose Vice Chairman has nothing better to do than post garbage on the internet doesn’t exactly make one want to take them seriously does it?

  3. I just noticed a typing error in my posting number
    1. It should have read: “Because Roberta Wright
    never got married, she could not have passed United
    States Citizenship on to John Sidney McCain III under the terms of United States Code, Title 8, Section 5e, because the collective naturalization
    Act of August 4, 1937 had to be read with the terms
    of the Nationality Convention of 1930.”

    Background in John McCain’s book entitled Faith Of
    My Fathers, he claimed that his mothers married his
    father in a bar in TJ, Mexico. However, there was
    no lawful marriage, because one could not marry in
    other than the Office of Civil Registry and there is no record of any such marriage in Baja California.

    The collective naturaliation Act of August 4, 1937,
    8 United States Code section 5e, had to be read with the terms of the Nationality Convention of 1930. Therefore, John Sidney McCain III go not
    citizenship passed from his father, because of
    Roberta McCain nee Wright did not marry in Baja
    California, Mexico as stated in the book FAITH OF
    MY FATHER. At the time of McCain’s birth in the
    Republic of Panama on August 29, 1936, his mother
    was not employed by the United States Goverment or
    the the Panama Railroad Company, because she listed
    her employment as a housewife on John McCain’s birth certificate. It is a requirement if born in
    the Republic of Panama to obtain a United States
    Citizenship that an out of wedlock child only gets
    citizenship rights from the mother under the Nationality Convention of 1930. Roberta McCain nee
    Wright (John Sidney McCain’s mother)could not pass
    on citizenship rights to her son, because she was
    not employed at John Sidney McCain III’s birth by either the United States Government or the Panama
    Railroad Company.

    Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American
    Independent Party.

  4. The state of Georgia has been doing a lot of bad things when it comes to voting rights for a while now. They should be ashamed of themselves.

  5. This is the same legislative body that voted to spend $1,000,000 to arm the state in a rebellion against the Federal Government, so don’t expect too much from it.

  6. should we be shocked? Georgia as horrible ballot access rules. Political rights do not seem to be valued.

  7. I could care less about voter turnout. If there’s a high turnout it probably means a lot of idiots are voting. Don’t deny it either. Too many people vote straight ticket and too many people vote knowing barely anything about the candidates and their policies.

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