While we were distracted with Kavanaugh’s appointment, the impending hurricane, and disappearing journalists, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State is quietly sitting on more than 53,000 voter registration applications, according to an Associated Press report cited by The Hill.
Why is Brian Kemp, the current Secretary of State for Georgia sitting on so many ballots? Because he’s running for governor and his opponent is Stacey Abrams, the phenomenal woman who won the Georgia Democratic primary in May to become the first first black woman to be a major party nominee for governor in the United States. And what voter registrations are Kemp sitting on? You guessed it! Voter registrations from POC:
His Democratic opponent, former state Rep. Stacey Abrams, and voting rights advocacy groups charge that Kemp is systematically using his office to suppress votes and tilt the election, and that his policies disproportionately affect black and minority voters.
Kemp denies that he has any nefarious motives and claims that “Abrams and liberal groups are playing political games a month before the election”. REALLY??!!
I don’t know the GA “exact match” law that he’s using, but hopefully the GA ACLU does.
Here’s Maddow’s coverage of this story:
Per TrueBlueMajority (who coached me on this … thank you so much), Kemp did the same thing in 2014.
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