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Dear Fellow Millennials: Why don’t we vote?

My mom, who forever has a dark sense of humor, always jokes that when her generation dies off, things will get better. She talks about how my siblings and I — and our generation — have a different set of values than what she grew up with — differences that she sometimes laments and sometimes praises. So, mom, while I don’t necessarily look forward to your death, nor do I think that the death of

Equality, Rights & Justice Issues

Don’t let Kemp steal this election

As you’ve probably already heard, voter suppression architect Brian Kemp has put 53,000 voter registrations “on hold,” — 70 percent of these voters are African American. So, is Kemp actively suppressing voters to win the election? Stacey Abrams would say “Yes!” In fact, she already did. On Meet the Press, Abrams called the so-called “exact match” voter registration law that’s denying so many African Americans the right to vote “a pattern of behavior where [Kemp] tries

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Brian Kemp

Brian Kemp’s incompetence knows no bounds

As secretary of state, Brian Kemp has been a massive failure. In the past few weeks alone, three new problems have cropped up, only adding to the long list of errors Kemp is accountable for. Here are three more ways that Kemp’s incompetence is affecting our elections in Georgia: Since 2004, voter registration applications have had incorrect, misleading language on them. These forms are still in use, and, according to his office, will not be

Voting Rights

Gov. Deal signs bill to silence minority voters

Gov. Deal recently approved a measure carving out land from the city of Stockbridge near Atlanta, giving some voters the opportunity to create a new municipality with more concentrated wealth and much fewer minority voters. The new city, Eagles Landing, was named for its local country club of the same name and proposes to take about a third of Stockbridge’s residents but half of the its revenue. The median income of Eagles Landing will be

Equality, Rights & Justice Issues

Tell Gov. Deal to veto Eagles Landing bill

The bill to establish Eagles Landing is headed for Gov. Deal’s desk, and this may be our last chance to demand that he veto this legislation. The bill would carve out a new city called Eagles Landing from the existing city of Stockbridge, along racial lines. Ultimately, the new city — named after local country club Eagle’s Landing — would deliver a huge hit to minority voters by significantly and intentionally diluting their voting power. Let’s

Brian Kemp

Georgia’s “exact match” name laws target minority voters

Georgia’s “exact match” name laws disproportionately affect minorities, who are refused their right to vote because of a backwards conservative “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist. With incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent, “voter fraud” is a debunked conservative myth. The “exact match” laws put registered voters on a “pending registration” list if the name on their registration doesn’t exactly match the name on their license, including hyphens, apostrophes and spaces. In