Georgia Voter Suppression: Alive and Well and Apparently Full-time Full Speed Ahead

At times no one's hands are clean on cheating to win

(Overall, the GOP has mastered the skill)

Newly a week has gone by on this story and the sub-title is worrisome as expressed a 6-minute video clip with Sen. Markey (D-MA) and Chris Hayes on his MSNBC show “All In” from Media Matters (October 12, 2018):

National TV news stations drop the ball on Georgia 

voter suppression

ABC, FOX, and NBC all have completely ignored the news that Georgia's secretary of state (also the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate), is sitting on tens of thousands of voter applications, while CNN and CBS just began covering the story.

First the video clip:

Introduction to the story:

Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is blocking the voter registrations of tens of thousands of people in his state, potentially keeping them away from the polls on November 6 in his face-off against Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams during the midterm election, too.

His voter suppression tactics, which disproportionately affect Black voters, aren't new, but they are a direct assault on voting rights, and most national TV news stations have completely ignored the story.

On October 9, The AP reported that Kemp has “cancelled over 1.4 million voter registrations since 2012” through purges of voter rolls, including almost 670,000 registrations in 2017 alone.

Additionally, the AP found that Kemp is currently holding up 53,000 new voter registration applications; nearly 70 percent of those applications come from Black citizens, in a state that is 32 percent Black. The applications are ostensibly being held because the information on them does not exactly match state or federal records, but these disparities could be as minor as a missing hyphen or a typo.

The Bottom Line: Many Georgians may be unaware that their applications have been put on hold or that they’ve been purged from the voter rolls, and now that the October 9 deadline to register to vote has passed, Kemp may have successfully suppressed their vote come November.

Related story here from the Daily Beast – “Republicans Have a Secret Weapon in the Midterms: Voter Suppression”

My 2 Cents: Simply stated what and who can do anything about this, right Mr. and Mrs. GA government, or even Federal officials, or even to the USSC quickly?

Yes, states do have control over their own election process, but this also interferes in the Federal midterm cycle, ergo: May need USSC intervention.

So, stay tuned … we apt to see a big battle since this simply underscores the underhanded tactics of the GOP win at any cost, and in this case it could cost plenty for our entire election process. 

Action is needed to rectify this ASAP.

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