Georgia voter suppression 2016. While georgia state officials blamed local poll workers voting rights advocates saw a continued pattern of voter suppression. In 2016 common cause and the naacp challenged georgias method of purging voters arguing in a lawsuit that it violated a first amendment guarantee the right not to vote. Minority voters are statistically more likely to have names that contain hyphens suffixes or other.
Several democrats running for president said in the november debate that voter suppression was to blame for stacey abrams narrow loss in the georgia governors race in 2018. Republican vote suppression is a 2020 train wreck hiding in pain sight. In georgia in 2018 among the 53000 voters in the pending voter file was the daughter of the.
Clinton falsely claimed that there were fewer voters registered in georgia in 2016 than then there had been those prior four years in 2012. Mits election performance index for 2016 suggested georgia ranked 49th out of 50 for wait times to vote. Georgias secretary of state brian kemp the republican gubernatorial nominee was the official in charge of determining whether or not voters were allowed to vote in the november 2018 election and has been accused of voter suppression.
Georgias bitter election a battle years in the making. These and other voter suppression techniques. Voter suppression is still one of the greatest obstacles to a more just america voters wait in line to vote in georgias primary at fulton countys park tavern precinct in atlanta june 9 2020.