# Democracy is dead in Georgia

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**Created:** [October 9, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democracy-is-dead-in-georgia/822697 "2018-10-09T15:19:47Z")\
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> [@Bricker](#):
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> Actually, Donald Trump got 304 votes, and Hillary Clinton got only 227, a clear majority for Trump.

This is getting a little far afield, but the presidential election was not a referendum on GA voting laws, and neither was the election of Kemp as Sec. of State. To quote myself from the thread in Elections, which you decided to ignore:

> [@Georgia purges 1 in 10 voters from voter rolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-purges-1-in-10-voters-from-voter-rolls/822742/152):
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> Unless this law and its implementation were spelled out as part of the platform that the Sec. of State ran on, I repeat, you have no idea how the voters of GA feel about this.

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