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GOP candidate improperly purged 340,000 from Georgia voter rolls, investigation claims
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: October 28th, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/georgia-gove...
Georgia secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp improperly purged more than 340,000 voters from the states registration rolls, an investigation charges. Greg Palast, a journalist and the director of the Palast Investigative Fund, said an analysis he commissioned found 340,134 voters were removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had moved but they actually still live at the address where they are registered. Their registration is cancelled. Not pending, not inactive cancelled. If they show up to vote on 6 November, they will not be allowed to vote. Thats wrong, Palast [said]. Its the latest voting rights controversy to crop up in the Georgia governors race, which pits Republican Kemp against Democrat Stacey Abrams, who if elected would become the first African American woman governor of any state. Lawsuits have also charged that Kemp blocked the registrations of 50,000 would-be voters, 80% of them black, Latino or Asian, because of minor discrepancies in the spelling or spacing of their name. Another suit targeted the states most diverse county after it rejected an unusually large number of absentee ballots. Brian Kemp has abused his power as secretary of state of Georgia to purge the voting rolls of Georgia primarily of black and brown people, said Joe Beasley, an Atlanta civil rights activist. If he had ... integrity, he would have stepped aside as secretary of state, because you cant referee an election in which you stand to be a winner.
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