Georgia Candidate Brian Kemp Claims Voter Suppression Is A ‘Farce,’ Blames Obama

We've all heard about voter suppression and it's still happening in Georgia but right out in the open.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-governor-debate-georgia_us_5bcfd603e4b055bc94860d4d

'Voter suppression isn’t only about blocking the vote. It is also about creating an atmosphere of fear, making sure their votes won’t count.'


[snip]Abrams ― who is vying to become the nation’s first black woman governor ― said Kemp “regularly purges voter rolls” and that in his time as secretary of state, “more people have lost the right to vote ― they’ve been purged, they’ve been suppressed.”

“Georgia purged twice as many voters — 1.5 million — between the 2012 and 2016 elections as it did between 2008 and 2012,” according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Kemp took office in 2010.

“Voter suppression isn’t only about blocking the vote,” she said during the debate, which was broadcast by Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Atlanta Press Club. “It is also about creating an atmosphere of fear, making sure their votes won’t count.”

Kemp said anybody whose registration was “pending” could simply show their identification to vote on Election Day. (The 53,000 voters on the suspense list can still vote with a regular ballot if they show up to polls with an accepted form of photo ID on Election Day. But they can’t vote absentee or by mail until they resolve the discrepancies with their voter registration.)

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We're thirteen days out from the Nov. 6th midterms and as expected, several races are very contentious. One of them in particular, the race for Governor in Georgia has taken an even dirtier turn than most others. Stacey Abrams is a lawyer, and novelist who served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. Her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp, is the current Secretary of State of Georgia. Brian Kemp is being accused of voter suppression in Georgia because as Secretary of State he oversees voter verification and has held up more than 50,000 registration applications.

Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp are currently tied in the polls and if there is an election that's so close that it automatically triggers a recount, Brian Kemp has stated that he will not recuse himself from being involved in the recount.

You may have already seen one of Brian Kemp's campaign ads, if you haven't here's one of them.

They've already released a report on the 50,000 pending voter applications. 75% were registered with the wrong last 4 of the applicants SSN and the rest are a combination of people under 18, those that are registered elsewhere, and those that were turned in by people who weren't the applicant.

Samhain said:

They've already released a report on the 50,000 pending voter applications. 75% were registered with the wrong last 4 of the applicants SSN and the rest are a combination of people under 18, those that are registered elsewhere, and those that were turned in by people who weren't the applicant.

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Who is “they”?

"Kemp said anybody whose registration was “pending” could simply show their identification to vote on Election Day. (The 53,000 voters on the suspense list can still vote with a regular ballot if they show up to polls with an accepted form of photo ID on Election Day. But they can’t vote absentee or by mail until they resolve the discrepancies with their voter registration.)"

I don't see how this is an issue... you think there is no reason these people are on the suspense list?

Nothing is preventing people from voting.... they can do it. This is not voter suppression lol.

Brian Kemp had a black woman placed under arrest because she was helping her blind father cast his ballot. You better believe that if that was a white woman helping her white father cast a ballot for Brian Kemp, she would have never been arrested. Clearly, this man is guilty of voter suppression and not only should he recuse himself if an automatic recount is triggered he should be arrested for interfering with an election.

Kobie said:

Who is “they”?

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The independent reviewer hired to review the pending applications for the Secretary's office. Like others have said, even if you are pending because you screwed up the application, you can still vote if you bring a valid id.

Kemp is running for office, while being in charge of the election process. That says it all about how corrupt and without integrity he is.

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HumblePi said:

Brian Kemp had a black woman placed under arrest because she was helping her blind father cast his ballot. You better believe that if that was a white woman helping her white father cast a ballot for Brian Kemp, she would have never been arrested. Clearly, this man is guilty of voter suppression and not only should he recuse himself if an automatic recount is triggered he should be arrested for interfering with an election.

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I would have to say I am not micro u-t-d on Georgia politics...

So mightn' you provide a link to a source likely to give us even a bit of an even handed accounting of this alleged event? I am one who ascribes to the old 20th century wise man's adage,

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”

Yano?