GOP nominee slammed with lawsuit for voter suppression scheme
Source: Shareblue
By Dan Desai Martin - October 12, 2018
Republican Brian Kemp is trying to deny minority voters the right to vote. In Georgia. In 2018.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is currently running as the GOP nominee for governor, is trying to illegally prevent minority voters from exercising their right to vote in an underhanded effort to stop his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams from becoming the state’s first black woman governor.
Kemp, a white man, is now being sued by six civil rights organizations including the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, Asian-Americans Advancing Justice, and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. He is accused of violating the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Kemp is named as the defendant in the lawsuit in his capacity as secretary of state, a position that puts him in charge of overseeing elections. As the Republican nominee for governor, this poses a blatant conflict of interest that has led some, including former Georgia Senator Max Cleland, to call for Kemp to step down from his current role for the duration of the campaign.
The lawsuit stems from Kemp’s use of the state’s “exact match” law to place tens of thousands of Georgia voters on a “pending” list even for very minor mistakes on voter registration forms. According to the Campaign Legal Center, the draconian measure “places tens of thousands of voter registration applications in suspense for errors as small as a misplaced hyphen, dash, or space.”
Read more: https://shareblue.com/brian-kemp-lawsuit-georgia-voter-suppression-scheme/
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Barely more than half a century after Lewis and other activists marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to fight for voting rights, Republicans like Kemp are using the levers of government to try to take that right away from thousands of citizens.
The Georgia Democratic Party has a voter protection hotline that anyone can call with questions about voting, if they see voter suppression efforts, or if they experience efforts to prevent them from voting: 1-888-730-5816.
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