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The House oversight committee is requesting documents from Gov. Brian Kemp.
House Democrats are opening an investigation into widespread reports of voter suppression in Georgia during the 2018 election. They requested extensive documents from Gov. Brian Kemp, who oversaw his own election as secretary of state.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), who chairs the House oversight committee, announced the investigation on Wednesday. The Committee is particularly concerned by reports Georgians faced unprecedented challenges with registering to vote and significant barriers to casting their votes during your tenure as Secretary of State and during the 2018 election, Cummings wrote in a letter to Kemp that he released Wednesday.
Cummings cited a multitude of voting problems under Kemps watch, including that 1.4 million people were purged from the voting rolls from 2012 to 2016; the registrations of 53,000 people80 percent of them voters of colorwere put on hold before the election; 214 polling places were closed while Kemp was secretary of state; and there were lines of more than four hours at heavily black voting precincts.
The committee asked Kemp for all communications and documents relating to voter roll purges, polling place closures, and problems with voting machines, as well as a program Kemp oversaw that blocked voter registration applications if information on the registration form didnt exactly match state or federal databases. Cummings has previously said he wanted Kemp to testify before his committee.
Cummings also expressed alarm about Kemps refusal to recuse himself as secretary of state while running for governor and a statement falsely accusing Georgia Democrats of cyber crimes just before the election, requesting internal communications about both issues
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/house-democrats-are-investigating-voter-suppression-in-georgia/?fbclid=IwAR1pVusWw22OzmUTcTs8sTjqVCozc2YqdbXHG0PDBo4ONv3Zl4bJtmE1ggs
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,009 posts)bluestarone
(16,975 posts)CHEAT TO WIN!
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)I hope that Rep. Elijah Cummings and the house oversight committee can find Kemp and the GA GOP guilty of stealing the election because it was stolen in plain sight.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)(call to action) alerting Georgians that Kemp wants to spend MILLIONS to add more faulty voting machines in the state.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)The GA GOP is a criminal enterprise.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)That should be a felony
not fooled
(5,801 posts)but the slimy bastards have probably been using private email accounts and other means to skirt reporting and documentation requirements. Illegally, of course, but IOKIYAR.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Don't give him a chance to play GOP hardball.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Georgia needs to make a law prohibiting a candidate from running the election. Other states may need to close that loophole, too.