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by aigen001 1991 days ago
Project Veritas should not be treated as a credible source.

The Georgia election official has debunked these claims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEYvOTvqlFs

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Did you even watch the video? Do you not see the person admitting to committing a felony and allowing people without a fixed address to vote?

I feel like this is really dangerous, when we begin rejecting video evidence of the perpetrator admitting their crimes because other mainstream media labels it as "fake news".

Reminds me of the 1984 and Ministry of Truth

I watched the 40 second clip of a man chase another man with a microphone. Then a person who works at a homeless shelter says people used the homeless shelter as an address to vote. He alleges some of the people who registered their address to the homeless shelter are dead. At no point does Adam Seeley allege that those dead people voted or were counted in the final vote.

Have you watched the Georgia voting systems manager, Gabriel Sterling, debunk the fraudulent claims of voter fraud?

Georgia law doesn't require having a fixed address to vote. You need to maintain GA residence. The full text of the relevant statute is here[0]. Note section 15b.

The form requires an address for contact and precinct information. People without a permanent address can use a common place of residence (where they can receive mail), such as a shelter, or if they don't have one of those, they can register in the park they sleep in [1].

Ultimately, it is up to the district registrar to determine if the residency is legitimate, but this is decided not based on the existence of a conventional fixed address, but based on the demonstrated intent to reside in the state (and more specifically the municipality).

[0]: https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-21/chapter-2...

[1]: https://faq.georgiavoter.guide/en/article/how-to-register-to...

> You need to maintain GA residence.

Which people without fixed address do not. We are talking vagabond voting without residence so they used the shelter's address.

You can criticize Veritas all you want but that is not the focus here. Someone was caught on the record admitting to committing a felony in the state of Georgia.

Georgia made residency requirements for voting that allow the homeless to vote. That's their prerogative. Same rules allow people who live year round in expensive recreational vehicles to vote, also.

Different organizations define residency differently. There is no single accepted way to prove residency. Sometimes a drivers license does the trick. Usually to get a a drivers license you need a utility bill or a lease. To get in-state tuition you need to prove a year of residency. Proof of residency for state taxes is more complicated, and varies by state. Residency is different than domicile, etc. As someone who has moved around a lot I've bumped into quite a bit of this.

There's nothing in the constitution saying that a person needs to own or rent a house to vote.

> Which people without fixed address do not

They do, according to the statue I literally just linked. There is no legal requirement for a fixed address. If you disagree, you're welcome to cite the relevant text from the ga code.

O.C.G.A. 21-2-217 section 15, specifically, gives county registrars broad authority to accept people based on exigent circumstances, including homelessness.

What's the relevant statue in Georgia law for defining residence?
People without a fixed address ARE allowed to vote. They are still residents of the state. I'm not sure what the point of this clip is - the thing that was admitted is completely correct and legal.
> committing a felony and allowing people without a fixed address to vote?

Please cite the relevant statute that you think makes that a felony.

If that's your complaint, you should be really mad at Donald Trump for using an illegal residence as his voting address, right?