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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrian Kemp is not the legitimate governor of Georgia. (THREAD)
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Brian Kemp is not the legitimate governor of Georgia. (THREAD)
In a democracy, legitimacy comes from being elected in free and fair elections. Brian Kemp was not.
While @BrianKempGA will be Georgia's next governor, he has no claim to democratic legitimacy. 2/14
As Georgias chief elections official, @BrianKempGA systematically denied voters across the state the right to vote in last year's election, stacking the deck in his own favor. 3/14
Through outright voter suppression and gross mismanagement of the electoral process, Sec. of State Kemp disenfranchised thousands of voters, disproportionately people of color. 4/14
Kemp unconstitutionally purged the voter rolls of nearly 10% of all voters in 2017, using an absurd application of Georgia law. 5/14
Kemp suspended tens of thousands of new voter registrations, many due to inconsequential typographical mismatches in state databases. 6/14
Georgia elections officials closed 214 polling locations under Kemps watch between 2012-2018. Thats 8% of all Georgia precincts, many of which served people of color. 7/14
Elections officials failed to supply enough voting machines for the expected turnout. Thousands of voters were forced to wait in egregiously long lines - an average of 3 hours in the Atlanta area. 8/14
At one polling place, voting machines ran out of batteries because there were no power cords. 9/14
Many voters were denied their right to a provisional ballot. 10/14
Voters trying to vote absentee were also disenfranchised - some voters who submitted applications never received their ballots, some arrived too late, and some were illegally rejected. 11/14
Brian Kemps outright voter suppression tactics and his gross mismanagement of the electoral process fundamentally undermined Georgias democratic elections.
Kemp disregarded Georgias voters at every turn - all he cared about was winning the governorship for himself. 12/14
The above violations of the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, and Georgia law are being challenged in court by @FairFightAction and @CareInActionUSA 13/14
For all these reasons, Brian Kemps entire governorship is illegitimate. Every action he takes and every bill he signs will lack the democratic legitimacy of a freely and fairly elected leader. 14/14
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Brian Kemp is not the legitimate governor of Georgia. (THREAD) (Original Post)
pbmus
Jan 2019
OP
K&R, This was to keep the senate in KGOP control. 53000 voter registrations held up and she lost by
uponit7771
Jan 2019
#2
He belongs in prison. We need national laws punishing voter suppression and election fraud
diane in sf
Jan 2019
#3
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)1. Lying, cheating sack of shit redneck.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)2. K&R, This was to keep the senate in KGOP control. 53000 voter registrations held up and she lost by
... 54000
diane in sf
(3,914 posts)3. He belongs in prison. We need national laws punishing voter suppression and election fraud
with hard prison time.
triron
(22,007 posts)4. Neither is Trump legitimate POTUS. I think a few R senators in same boat.