Stacey Abrams: GOP opponent creating 'miasma of fear' over voting in Georgia

Source: The Guardian

Brian Kemp accused of seeking to suspend minority voters from registration rolls under the ‘exact match’ law

As a crisis of potential voter suppression in Georgia deepened, the Democratic candidate for governor accused her opponent of seeking to disenfranchise people of color and women by creating a “miasma of fear” around voting.

Stacey Abrams, who if elected would become the first African American woman governor of any state, is running against Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brian Kemp.

A lawsuit filed by civil rights groups on Thursday accused Kemp of seeking to disenfranchise more than 50,000 voters, up to 80% of them minority voters, by suspending voters from registration rolls if records held by various state agencies show any slight discrepancy in how a voter’s name is hyphenated, spelled or spaced.

Any voter whose records betrayed such a discrepancy would not be unregistered but would have to take subjective steps to convince poll workers of his or her identity, thereby risking not having his or her vote counted.


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The issue also pulled in another senior Georgia Republican, when it was reported that David Purdue briefly seized a phone from a student who tried to ask a question about voting laws while the senator campaigned for Kemp.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/14/stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-georgia-governors-race

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Hey Perdue, do you realize that even touching that phone from the student was assault..................what and who gave you that right to do that asshole, if it was me, I would file charges so fast it would make your head spin.............................asshole





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"miasma"

[mahy-az-muh, mee-]
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noun, plural mi·as·mas, mi·as·ma·ta [mahy-az-muh-tuh, mee-] /maɪˈæz?mə?tə, mi-/.
noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.



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