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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

Brian Kemp

GOP gov. candidates parrot Trump’s lies about immigration and crime

Trump infamously slithered into the White House by building support for his presidential campaign in part by using xenophobic slurs particularly those against Mexican immigrants. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” he claimed. While we know these statements are simply false, Georgia’s conservative gubernatorial candidates in Georgia haven’t gotten the message. Or, more likely, they just don’t care about the truth. They’re still spewing Trump’s bogus, backwards anti-immigration sentiments, regardless of the story

Gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams poses with the right wing three percent millitia
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Race to GOP primaries becoming race to bottom

Yikes! The Republican gubernatorial hopefuls are on a fast-paced race to the bottom. A (somewhat interchangeable) group of white men have been desperately trying to reassure the public that they are, in fact, the MOST racist, MOST anti-abortion, MOST anti-immigrant candidate of the whole lot. Where to begin in listing off the litany of disturbing choices these candidates have made? To start with, all of the top GOP candidates have made public pledges to support

Immigration and Refugees

Kemp slams immigration on bus tour

As part of his gubernatorial campaign’s bus tour, Sec. of State Brian Kemp gave a talk inside of what was once a jail cell advocating a crackdown on immigration. As has become typical of the Republican rhetoric on immigration, his speech was full of hateful, confusing half-truths. The crux of his talk was about how undocumented immigrants are driving up the cost of heathcare. He said it was “insane” that undocumented immigrants get healthcare coverage

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Kemp claims credit for ACLU victory

Local elections officials will now automatically update addresses for voters who move within the same county instead of marking them “inactive,” representing a major victory for voting rights in Georgia. The change comes after a lawsuit filed against Sec. of State Brian Kemp by the American Civil Liberties Union.  Last year, almost 169,000 registered voters were sent notices by the Secretary of State after moving within the county. They were told they had 30 days

Brian Kemp

The worst secretary of state in the U.S.

Brian Kemp — Georgia’s Secretary of State and a 2018 gubernatorial hopeful — provides no shortage of indefensible acts as leader of this state’s election infrastructure. Multiple data breaches, insecure voting machines, wiped servers and lawsuits have defined his tenure as Secretary of State. Currently, Kemp’s office is being sued by a coalition of voters challenging the integrity of elections. Samantha Bee dove into the issue on a recent episode of Full Frontal, highlighting the security