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Early voting in Georgia surpasses 1.5 million

As of October 30, 1,506,372 Georgians have cast an early ballot — either in person or through an absentee ballot. This is  more than double the early voting turnout during the last midterm elections in 2014. And early voting lasts until the end of this week. Election Day is on Tuesday, November 6th. And it has Brian Kemp scared. As recent audio from a campaign event reveals, Kemp expressed concern that this high voter turn-out “is

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Kemp’s voter suppression isn’t working

Kemp and his conservative cronies are using every trick in the book to try to hold on to their power in Georgia. They’ve purged voters from the rolls at alarming rates, thrown out absentee ballots, and turned around a bus of elderly black voters. A longtime architect of voter suppression, Kemp should not have been allowed to oversee his own election when it’s clear that he’s using power to try to sway the outcome of

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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

2018 Legislative Session

Why are conservatives afraid of more voters?

Yesterday, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill that would carve out a new city, called Eagle’s Landing, from the existing city of Stockbridge, along racial lines. The bill was amended slightly from the Senate’s version, so now it’s headed back to the Senate for another vote. So far, it seems the vote has been split on party lines — it’s clear that Republicans in the state legislature are determined to carve out a

Elections

Kemp will hand over sensitive Ga. voter data to Trump’s bogus commission

Donald Trump created a bogus commission on “election integrity” in May after he claimed, without evidence, that millions undocumented immigrants voted illegally in the 2016 election, costing him the popular vote. Many people see through this as an excuse to rewrite his loss in the popular vote and to suppress voters who don’t support Trump. Now, Trump’s bogus commission is asking for states to turn over sensitive, personal information about voters — including vote history,

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Karen Handel’s history of voter suppression

As Secretary of State, Karen Handel put Georgia on the map as a leader for voter suppression tactics. Claims of “voter fraud,” one of the Right Wing’s favorite myths, led to a wave of bad policy pushed by Handel, including the use of inaccurate software to purge voters as well as the implementation of unnecessary voter ID laws. During her gubernatorial campaign (against Nathan Deal) she proudly trotted out these “accomplishments,” which earned her the endorsement