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Different article, more evidence of egregious attempts (and successes) at voter suppression:
https://tinyurl.com/y9xlqc8v - Slate - Brian Kemps Bid for Governor Depends on Erasing the Black Vote in Georgia

To understand the brazen attack on black suffrage now occurring in Randolph County, its important to remember that Georgia is in the midst of a seismic demographic shift. As whites cease to be the majority in more and more counties, Republicans have clung to power by disenfranchising minority voters. Kemps opposition to the Randolph County plan marks the first time that he has adopted an affirmatively pro-suffrage stance. During his nearly eight years as secretary of state, Kemp engaged in mass voter purges, removing hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls. State officials appear to have singled out black voters in targeted purges.

Kemp also canceled or suspended 35,000 voter registrations using Exact Match, a version of Kris Kobachs notorious Crosscheck program that compares registrants information with motor vehicle and Social Security databases. If a single letter, space, or hyphen did not match the database information, the voter application was rejected. Black voters were eight times more likely than whites to have their registrations halted due to Exact Match.

Kemp doesnt need to continue shuttering polling places to disenfranchise minority voters in November.
Perhaps most egregiously, Kemp launched an investigation into Abrams efforts to register more minority voters despite no evidence of fraud. He used the probe to harass and intimidate voting rights advocates. Later, he refused to register 40,000 would-be voters who had signed up through the drive. Speaking to Republicans behind closed doors, Kemp explained the stakes: Registering all these minority voters that are out there if they can do that, they can win these elections. During Kemps tenure, Georgias population has increased substantiallyyet the number of registered voters has actually gone down.

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