Republicans on Georgia’s state Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday voted to advance a bill switching automatic voter registration from opt-out on driver’s license applications to opt-in, the AP reports on a natural response to too many people voting in elections over the last few years.
“The intent is certainly not to reduce voter registration, the intent is to clarify and make voter registration more accurate,” said committee chair Max Burns. Majority Leader Steve Gooch echoed that line of bullshit with a rhetorical question. “Are we just trying to get a lot of people on the rolls and two or three years later we’re purging all of them because 90% never went to vote anyway?”