Daily Take: Georgia's Latest Voter Suppression Tactic: A Blueprint for Disenfranchisement
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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If you think it should be harder to take away your vote than your gun, double-check your voter registration (especially if you live in a Red state) and show up this fall!
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| 0:31.4 | Georgia's latest voter suppression tactic, a blueprint for disenfranchisement. |
| 0:38.0 | Republicans in Georgia have been champions of pioneering new ways to disenfranchise Democratic |
| 0:42.1 | voters. Their latest scam is breathtaking. |
| 0:45.0 | Versus the background. When Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp was Secretary |
| 0:50.0 | of State, the state's top election official, and running against Stacy Abrams for |
| 0:54.8 | governor in 2018. Abrams organization had registered 53,000 people, 70% |
| 1:00.8 | African-American to vote. |
| 1:02.1 | Kemp put those registrations on hold so they couldn't vote in the 2018 election, |
| 1:06.0 | which he won by 54,723 votes. |
| 1:10.0 | But that was just the beginning for Kemp. |
| 1:12.0 | By the year prior to the 2018 election he'd purged a total of 1.4 million voters from the rolls, |
| 1:18.0 | claiming he was just removing people who died or moved. |
| 1:21.0 | On a single night in July 2017, he removed a half million voters. |
| 1:25.2 | About 8% of all registered Georgia voters. |
| 1:27.7 | An Act the Atlanta Journal Constitution said, quote, may represent the largest mass disenfranchisement in U.S. history, end quote. |
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