Welcome to the ticket. I'm Isaac Dove Arring. Well, the Democrats have their

candidate. Joe Biden will be

be

be run an election in a pandemic, and two,

who will be the name under Joe Biden's on the ballot?

Well, for this episode of the show, I spoke with someone who hopes

have the answer for both. Stacey Abrams is a name you probably heard before. She's been a

voting rights activist in Georgia politician for years, but she's best known for her gubernatorial run in 2018.

She built a uniquely impressive operation to register new voters and turn them out.

Her opponent, though, was then Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the official in charge of that very election.

And voting access turned out to be decisive.

Abrams operation led to a big jump in Democratic votes.

But Kemp had also led a spike in voter purges, removing over 100,000 Georgians who hadn't voted in recent elections.

Abrams lost by around 50,000 votes and called the

purge a Use It or Lose It scheme and Kemp is now the governor. After her

defeat Abrams founded Fair Fight, a national organizing group that works for fair elections.

That's been followed by Fair Count, which is all about getting an accurate and representative

census.

And then, late last year, Abrams launched the Southern Economic Advancement Project.

That promotes equitable economic and social policy across the South.

Besides her activism, Abrams is also a romance novelist and a Star Trek nerd, so she's not without ways to fill

her time while stuck at home.

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