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1.5 million purged by Brian Kemp

53k registrations on hold

4.5 hour lines

214 polling places closed

Dems falsely accused of cyber crimes

Candidate overseeing own election

As @staceyabrams said, GA race was tainted by voter suppression

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
GA race clearest example in decades of what rigged election looks like. Brian Kemp used voter suppression to help him & hurt Abrams while overseeing his own election. "Democracy failed Georgia" as @staceyabrams said motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
There's nothing more vile in a democracy than preventing people from voting, but that's how Brian Kemp blocked Stacey Abrams from becoming first black woman governor in US history motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
"Things have changed in the South," John Roberts wrote when he gutted Voting Rights Act

Then Brian Kemp purged 1.5 million people, put 53,000 registrations on hold, closed 214 polling places

Georgia exhibit A for how wrong Roberts was

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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Breaking: Scott Walker signs lame duck GOP legislative coup stripping his Democratic successor of power & making it harder to vote. This is the kind of thing autocrats do

A very dark day for democracy in Wisconsin
Scott Walker just signed lame duck coup brazenly stripping power from Dem gov/AG & making it harder to vote

Similar legislative coups underway in MI & NC

GOP shamelessly gutting democracy before they lose power

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Gutting unions

Lame duck coups

Extreme gerrymandering

Rampant voter suppression

Eviscerating campaign finance

This is Scott Walker's legacy in Wisconsin

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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RIP to 97-year-old civil rights activist Rosanell Eaton who passed away yesterday

She passed literacy test to register to vote & then registered over 4,000 people. She was plaintiff in @ncnaacp lawsuit challenging NC voter ID law

A remarkable woman I was honored to know
Rosanell Eaton had to pass literacy test in 1940s to register to vote under Jim Crow

Then when NC passed voter ID law she had to make 11 trips to different state agencies to get right ID

NC just passed new version of voter ID law in lame duck session thenation.com/article/the-92…
As I wrote in my book Give Us the Ballot, civil rights hero Rosanell Eaton had to recite Preamble to Constitution to register to vote under Jim Crow

70 years later she was still fighting for voting rights in North Carolina & joined @RevDrBarber's Moral Monday movement
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Breaking: North Carolina GOP passes voter ID law in lame duck session before they lose supermajority & Dem gov can veto

Law targets voter impersonation, which is practically non-existent, while doing little to stop massive election fraud committed by GOP in NC09
Last time NC GOP passed voter ID law court said it targeted black voters "with almost surgical precision"

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
This is very important

NC's last voter ID law exempted mail-in ballots, where massive election fraud in NC9 committed, while targeting voter impersonation, which is basically non-existent

That's b/c Dems vote more in person while GOP votes more absentee

nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/…
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#Georgia: The mystery of the 100,000 missing votes for Lieutenant Governor — Greg Palast talks to @Thom_Hartmann
Just look at the numbers, they speak for themselves: results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/91639/Web02…
People said, 'Oh, I'm so excited about changing administration, but I’m not going to vote for #StaceyAbrams running mate?!?’ That’s like voting for President, and not voting for Vice President. [See drop off rate from Governor to Lt Governor and how it recovers down the ticket.]
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Members of #BryanKemp's voting system commission, SAFE meet Wednesday, December 12 to decide on HACKABLE VOTING MACHINES for #Georgia.
Only permitting public comment AFTER decision.
Ask your state reps to attend.
10 to 4 at 237 Coliseum Dr, Macon GA
#PaperBallots #GApol
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Find your #GA State Rep here: house.ga.gov/Documents/Info…
Senators: senate.ga.gov/senators/en-US…
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Let Georgia's SAFE Commission know that paper ballots WITHOUT BARCODES are the only reasonable choice for elections.
Emails below.
#PaperBallots #GApol
Call to Action thread from @IndivisibleGAco
Commission will meet to choose how to spend as much as $100 MILLION on new equipment for Georgia elections. That equipment may be no better than what they are replacing!
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If no one else is going to respond to this, I guess I will have to. This list is intentionally misleading to give readers who don't know the facts a false impression and thus undermine a legitimate election. Thread with the truth about each of these accusations:
1) The "1.5 million purged" is the total number of voters that have been removed from the rolls since 2012. Many have been removed because they moved, committed felonies, died etc.

The overwhelming majority of the rest were removed because of Georgia's "Use it or lose it" law.
1 cont) This law was passed in 1997 by A Dem legislature and a Dem Governor in Georgia. Similar laws have been upheld by SCOTUS. It requires the rolls to be updated by removing voters that have not voted for some time and do not respond to contact from the state. For GA:
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Purged Voters’ “Provisional” Ballots Could Decide Georgia Governor Race — my latest report for @truthout truthout.org/articles/purge… #ElectionDay #BrianKemp #StaceyAbrams #Georgia #Midterms2018 #MidtermsMatter
You took one vote away, but #StaceyAbrams is going to get 10 more because I’m going to bring 10 more people out to vote.” — Rahiem Shabazz, an Atlanta filmmaker who found he'd been purged from #Georgia's voter rolls after finding his name on the purge list we published last month
Find out how the provisional "placebo” ballots given to purged #Georgia voters like Rahiem Shabazz could cost #StaceyAbrams the GA governor's race: gregpalast.com/purged-voters-… #ElectionDay #Midterms2018
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It couldn’t be any clearer what Republicans in states like GA and TX are doing. They are purposely undermining voting rights for Black and Latino Americans. Here’s how they’re doing it:
1. #GA Republicans are holding up the voter registration of 53,000, mostly Black people. The state’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp who oversees the voting roll is in a race for governor against Democrat @StaceyAbrams: nbcnews.com/politics/elect…
2. Florida has barred ex-felons who have completed their sentences from voting in the state denying 1.5 million people the right to vote. A referendum on the ballot in November would restore voting rights to these people: nytimes.com/2018/09/26/mag…
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Do you live on "Maple St" or "Maple St."? If you live in Georgia and your voter registration doesn't match what's in the database -- even a period -- your registration has been placed on hold by the guy running for governor (he's currently Secretary of State). Vote #StaceyAbrams
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 Brian Kemp was down in Georgia
He was lookin' for some votes to steal
He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind
And he was willin' to be surreal

When he came across a lady
Stumpin' on a mic & saying it hot
That Devil jumped on his own big stump
And said Lady I tell you what
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 I guess you didn´t know it
but I'm the Secretary of State too
And I don't care, I'll take a dare
To disenfrachise all for you

Now you run a pretty straight campaign
Lady, but give this Devil his due
I bet a governor's role against your soul
'Cause I think I'm better than you
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