Do a little research why don't you. Georgia has a long history of voter suppression. During the 2018 mid-term elections this occurred:
In Georgia, Kemp remained in his position as Georgia’s secretary of state — the office that oversees elections in Georgia — even while running for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams.
Kemp has carried out mass purges of the voter rolls, ostensibly to remove dead people and people who haven’t voted in recent elections from the records, but in such a sweeping way that Democrats fear it will keep voters, particularly minority voters, off the rolls.
Kemp’s office also put 53,000 voter registrations on hold, nearly 70 percent of which are for black voters, by using an error-prone “exact match” system, which stops voter registrations if there are any discrepancies, down to dropped hyphens, with other government records.
And in the days before Election Day, Kemp accused Democrats, through the secretary of state’s website and with no evidence, of attempting to hack the state’s voter registration system. As elections law expert Richard Hasen wrote in Slate, this was “perhaps the most outrageous example of election administration partisanship in the modern era.”
Other problems also popped up in Georgia throughout the day, including long voting lines and technical errors. That led to voting places extending their hours very late into the night.
An independent analysis of over 300,000 voters purged from the rolls after 2018 showed that over 60% wrongfully lost their right to vote because of an incorrect assumption that they had changed their address. Too often, these voters never discover they have been purged until the time to vote, when it is too late.
Originally Posted by txdot-guy
I did a little research and this sounds like Stacey Abrams propaganda. She's a lot like Trump. They both lost but won't admit it.
Kemp purged 1.4 million people from the rolls during his time as Secretary of State, most because they hadn't voted in a long while. A progressive, pro-Abrams, pro-Democrat organization, apm reports, looked at 500,000 that were purged on a single day. Of the 500,000, apparently 400,000 shouldn't have been on the rolls, because they had indeed moved or died. So that leaves 100,000. Now those people could still go to vote, and those that did presumably could cast provisional ballots. And, admittedly, because they were no longer on the rolls, their provisional ballots probably were rejected.
As to the 53,000 people whose registrations had been held up, they could also go in and cast provisional ballots, and their votes were counted provided that they had registered sometime in the last 26 months. The hold ups occurred because election authorities were unable to match names on registration forms with social security cards or drivers licenses, so yes, a misplaced hyphen or apostrophe in a name could cause that. So why were 70% black? It wasn't a Republican conspiracy. Rather Stacey Abrams and colleagues had been registering everyone they could, so they'd be able to harvest ballots when November, 2018 came around. And they were sloppy when they signed people up to vote, and didn't always enter the names of the people correctly on registration forms.
These 53,000 people represent about 1% by the way of voters who registered while Kemp was Secretary of State btw. Kemp made registration easier, by among other things setting up a way to do it on the internet.
But here's the kicker. All these people who had been purged because they didn't vote in a long while, and all the people whose registrations were help up because their names didn't match, presumably were able to vote provisionally. Again, if your name had been purged because of inactivity, your vote likely wouldn't count. If it was because of a mistake in the name, your vote probably would be counted.
And in the 2018 Georgia governor's election, only about 9,000 people voted provisionally. Kemp won by 55,000 votes.
This is truly ironic, because Kemp received death threats and possibly kissed his political career goodbye for refusing to countenance Donald Trump's argument that the election was stolen in Georgia.
Finally, please realize that steps that Kemp took, which you may view as voter suppression, are the measures that make many independents and some Republicans like me confident we have a sound election system. Without us, Trump's attempts at overturning the election might not have been so laughable. You might have had a revolution. Removing voters from the rolls who haven't voted for many years and holding up registration of voters whose names can't be matched with government records are reasonable.