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Fri Oct 12, 2018, 07:19 AM Oct 2018

GOP candidate faces calls to resign over suppressing black voters in Georgia

By Oliver Willis - October 11, 2018

Republican Brian Kemp, who is running for governor but also serves as Georgia's secretary of state, is facing calls to resign after his office held up the registrations of over 53,000 mostly black voters.

Republican Brian Kemp is the secretary of state in Georgia, but he’s also running for governor — which means that Kemp is the chief official overseeing his own election.

And now Kemp is facing calls to resign from that position following a report by the Associated Press that Kemp’s office is holding up the registrations of over 53,000 voters, most of whom are black.

The report reveals that while Georgia’s population is 32 percent black, 70 percent of the registrations currently on hold by Kemp’s office are for black voters.

Kemp’s opponent, Democrat Stacey Abrams, would become the first black woman governor in the United States if she won.

On Thursday, Abrams called for Kemp to resign as secretary of state, “so that Georgia voters can have confidence that their Secretary of State competently and impartially oversee this election,” Abrams spokeswoman Abigail Collazo said in a statement.

https://shareblue.com/brian-kemp-stacey-abrams-georgia-voter-suppression/


He isn't going to resign, racist never resign, not when you follow the playbook of the John Roberts and the other five justices of the court.........................it just sounds wrong to say justices, there as racist as this asshole



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough..........................vote


Solution

https://staceyabrams.com/

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