Berry is one of more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters who have been “flagged” because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. At least 4,500 of those people are having their citizenship questioned and the burden is on them to prove eligibility to vote.

Experts say lists of people with mismatches are often systematically cut, or “purged,” from voter rolls.

Mello: Um, Republicans?
Republicans: What is it, Mello?
Mello: Can I ask you about something?
Republicans: Make it quick.
Mello: It’s about this purging voters thing.
Republicans: Oh here we go again.
Mello: Look, I try to see both sides of every issue, but isn’t systematically preventing tens of thousands of ordinary citizens from voting wrong, maybe even downright evil? I mean, it seems so blatantly and obviously evil, there must be something that I am not seeing in order to explain how you’re able to get away with it. I’d sleep better at night if you could clear this up for me.
Republicans: Mello, come on. We’re purging the records! Just cleaning them up a bit – you know, purging. Since when is purging such a bad thing?
Mello: Since always.
Republicans: Give one example.
Mello: For starters, Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge left somewhere between one to two million dead. In effect, people who represented something politically undesirable to the regime in power were silenced by the most efficient means necessary. In Soviet Russia, that meant large-scale execution or slow and painful death at labor camps. There are other ways, though. Disenfranchising voters, for example.
Republicans: I don’t see how that is related.
Mello: Well, the term “purge” is also associated with bulimia, the eating disorder.
Republicans: That sounds like a made-up word.
Mello: No, it isn’t. It’s a terrible syndrome where the sufferer binges on large amounts of food and then purges the food from their system by inducing vomiting or using laxatives.
Republicans: Definitely not a real thing.
Mello: That is a terrible thing to say.
Republicans: YOU wrote it.
Mello: YOU are fucking evil! I don’t understand how you can keep getting away with this shit. Listen, I know that the Democrats are far from perfect and that the entire two-party capitalist system that we’re operating under has some major problems, but how in the fuck is it possible for such blatant injustice to be carried out at this level? I don’t – hey, what are you doing?
Republicans: Stand still.
Mello: What is that? What are you doing with that wool?
Republicans: Just stand still, we’re trying to pull this over your – there.  Ha!
Mello: Um, I can still sort of see stuff.
Republicans: We’ve gotten kind of bad at what we do.

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