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Brian Kemp is not the legitimate governor of Georgia. (THREAD)
In a democracy, legitimacy comes from being elected in free and fair elections. Brian Kemp was not.
While @BrianKempGA will be Georgia's next governor, he has no claim to democratic legitimacy. 2/14
While @BrianKempGA will be Georgia's next governor, he has no claim to democratic legitimacy. 2/14
As Georgia’s chief elections official, @BrianKempGA systematically denied voters across the state the right to vote in last year's election, stacking the deck in his own favor. 3/14 
Through outright voter suppression and gross mismanagement of the electoral process, Sec. of State Kemp disenfranchised thousands of voters, disproportionately people of color. 4/14
Kemp unconstitutionally purged the voter rolls of nearly 10% of all voters in 2017, using an absurd application of Georgia law. 5/14
Kemp suspended tens of thousands of new voter registrations, many due to inconsequential typographical mismatches in state databases. 6/14
Georgia elections officials closed 214 polling locations under Kemp’s watch between 2012-2018. That’s 8% of all Georgia precincts, many of which served people of color. 7/14
Elections officials failed to supply enough voting machines for the expected turnout. Thousands of voters were forced to wait in egregiously long lines - an average of 3 hours in the Atlanta area. 8/14
At one polling place, voting machines ran out of batteries because there were no power cords. 9/14
Many voters were denied their right to a provisional ballot. 10/14
Voters trying to vote absentee were also disenfranchised - some voters who submitted applications never received their ballots, some arrived too late, and some were illegally rejected. 11/14
Brian Kemp’s outright voter suppression tactics and his gross mismanagement of the electoral process fundamentally undermined Georgia’s democratic elections.
Kemp disregarded Georgia’s voters at every turn - all he cared about was winning the governorship for himself. 12/14
Kemp disregarded Georgia’s voters at every turn - all he cared about was winning the governorship for himself. 12/14
The above violations of the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, and Georgia law are being challenged in court by @FairFightAction and @CareInActionUSA 13/14
For all these reasons, Brian Kemp’s entire governorship is illegitimate. Every action he takes and every bill he signs will lack the democratic legitimacy of a freely and fairly elected leader. 14/14
