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Ari Berman @AriBerman
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Must-read @pemalevy profile of Brian Kemp, who's dedicated his career to preventing people of color from voting & whose voter suppression policies could tip GA governor's race in his favor motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Brian Kemp has long history of voter suppression. GA purged 1.5 million people under his watch from 2012-2016, 2x as many as from 2008-2012
Kemp blocked 34,874 voter registrations in 2016, 75% were non-white. African Americans submitted 29.4 percent of voter registration applications but were 63.6 percent of rejections. "African Americans, Asian Americans & Latinos 7x likelier to be flagged than white registrants"
Kemp's office responsible for one of largest data breaches of any state, releasing 6.2 million voters’ Social Security numbers, addresses & driver’s license numbers. He's also done nothing to safeguard GA's electronic voting machines with no paper backups
107,000 people have been purged by Kemp for not voting, making voting a "use it or lose it" right. "In 6 of every 10 counties across Georgia, black voters were canceled at a higher rate than their white peers for inactivity" @apmreports apmreports.org/story/2018/10/…
"Of the most common voter suppression tactics studied this year by US Commission on Civil Rights--voter ID laws, proof of citizenship requirements, purges, cuts in early voting & polling places closures--GA is only state once under federal oversight to have adopted all five."
If you want to counter voter suppression elect secretaries of state who will protect rather than suppress votes motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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