With the fifth Democratic primary debate set to take place at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, there's a renewed focus on the reliably Republican state where Stacey Abrams was able to turn out voters in 2018 like no Democrat ever had before.
Democrat Stacey Abrams may not have won Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial election, but her historic campaign, which uniquely took on voter suppression, pushed her to launch a 2020-focused initiative within her organization Fair Fight, to continue her campaign for voters' rights with enough time to make an impact ahead of the next election in not just Georgia, but in 20 states across the country.
Wendy Weiser, vice president for the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program, told ABC News that given Georgia's status as"a hotbed of controversies around vote suppression" for more than a decade, this is the time for the 10 candidates debating on stage to take on this issue. Secretaries of state have the authority, and are required by law, to maintain voter rolls by removing people who have died and who have moved out of the jurisdiction, said Carol Anderson, chair of African American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta and the author of,"One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy."
In October 2018, Kemp told ABC News,"There is no purging... That word purging is outrageous. When people don’t participate in over seven years, they end up coming on off the list per federal law."
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