Amy Goodman
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Is Georgia’s Brian Kemp Disenfranchising 53,000 Voters to Swing His Race Against Stacey Abrams?
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October 16, 2018
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14:38Now PlayingWith the midterm elections just three weeks away, voting rights advocates are accusing Republican officials in several states of orchestrating a campaign of voter suppression targeting people of color. In Georgia, the Democratic candidate for governor, Stacey Abrams, is calling on her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp, to step down as secretary of state for placing 53,000 voter applications on hold. Seventy percent of the applicants are AfricanAmerican. Abrams has accused Kemp of using the state’s “exact match” system to disenfranchise voters. With exact match, even a minor discrepancy in a voter’s registration and their official ID could bar them from casting a ballot. We speak with Carol Anderson, chair of the Department of African American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She is author of the new book “One Person, No VoteHow Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.”
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