Georgia voter suppression 2019. A federal judge on friday backed georgias removal of nearly 100000 names from the states voter rolls. They knew it was going to be close. The decision comes as state officials face accusations of voter suppression.
This story the first in a two part series on alleged voter suppression in georgia was reported in partnership with wabe in atlanta. Residents can register online or through paper forms. 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.
Then secretary of state brian kemp r who refused to recuse himself as overseer of. The house oversight and reform committee is investigating allegations of voter suppression in georgia under secretary of state brian kemp who has since become governor. Voting rights groups condemned georgias republican leaders for what they saw as massive voter suppression effortespecially after kemp went on to win the 2018 election by 14 percentage points.
Between the average georgia voters home and polling site more than doubled as 8 percent of the states polling sites were shut down and 40 percent of its. It is equally an. October 30 2019 at 300 am edt.
Especially those running for president that stacey abrams was narrowly denied the governorship of georgia because of voter suppression. Georgia has an exact match law which requires that a voters registration form matches records kept by state officials.