Kennesaw State University officials on Tuesday warned students that “unauthorized” individuals were “targeting particular student populations” on the Georgia campus with a voter registration drive, indicating that those voter registration forms could be fake, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
In an alert sent to students, Michael Sanseviro, the school’s dean of students, said that “unauthorized individuals are walking around with clipboards claiming they are registering students to vote,” according to the Journal-Constitution. He said that these individuals “are targeting particular student populations.”
The university would not confirm to the Journal-Constitution that the “unauthorized” voter registration efforts were targeting black students, but a “student tipster” told the paper that black students are being targeted.
The school would also not say whether the “unauthorized individuals” were using fake voter registration forms, but Sanseviro indicated in the alert that Kennesaw State students have had a problem in the past with fake voter registration.
“We have had students in the past not be able to vote on election day because they completed a form with an unauthorized person and were never properly registered,” he said in the alert to students. “We are committed to ensuring all eligible KSU students have the proper access and opportunity to participate in the democratic process.”
Huh-my first reaction was to read this as though the college was discouraging people from voting. Glad to see I’m wrong.
Seems to me that if they ask these “voter registration” people for some kind of ID or affiliation that they could end that right quick.
More on this from the AJC: http://jaybookman.blog.myajc.com/2016/09/07/could-it-be-a-real-life-case-of-vote-fraud/
Yeah, I had exactly the same first thought and was likewise relieved to be wrong.
[quote]Seems to me that if they ask these “voter registration” people for some kind of ID or affiliation that they could end that right quick.
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Probably have fake but authentic appearing ID. The dead giveaway probably would be if there is any casual conversation about “who you gonna vote for” or pretending to be from one party or the other. (As in, “just 'cause I wear a “DNC” button, doesn’t mean I am not a Trumper in disguise, here to prevent you from checking the box for Hil…”) If you really are interested in just getting out the vote, you’re not gonna ask…
Trump surrogates doing more outreach to the black community no doubt. LOL!
I did too, but then I realized that it is because the headline has “unauthorized” in quotes. Leaving the word to stand alone would have been a more accurate way to headline it.