Democrat Stacey Abrams of Georgia, Her Fight For Voting Rights

[appalachiablue]

A group founded by Stacey Abrams said removing the voters meant burdening them solely because they had previously chosen not to vote. 5 mins.
- 'Georgia does not have to put 100,000 voters back on rolls, judge rules.'- Ruling is blow to efforts by Democrat Stacey Abrams, though judge says those removed should receive more warning. The Guardian, Dec. 28, 2019.
Georgia doesn’t have to put almost 100,000 voters back on its rolls, a federal judge ruled Friday. The US district judge Steve C Jones ruled that a voting rights advocacy group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams is improperly asking him to interpret state law. Jones also said the group hasn’t proved that people who have been removed had their constitutional rights violated.
However, Jones also ordered Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to do more to warn people that they had been removed. The judge is especially singling out a south-west Georgia state House district where a 28 January special election is scheduled. Voters there who have been removed have only until Monday to re-register.

Raffensperger in October released a list of over 313,000 voters whose registrations were at risk of being canceled. Fair Fight Action, a voting rights group, had asked for the purge to be halted. Voter purges in Georgia became a hot-button issue during last year’s race for governor between Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp, who won the race. Kemp served as secretary of state before being elected governor and oversaw aggressive voter purges during his tenure. Over 1.4m voter registrations were canceled in Georgia between 2012 and 2018...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/28/georgia-voting-rights-purge-stacey-abrams

[sagesnow]

1. Stacy is So Right On!

Voting rights are fundamental to Democracy.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. appalachiablue, thank you

for all that you do.

Voter suppression in 2020 will have no color coded bias. It will be aimed at anyone identified as a Democrat, imo. I'm not sure all our states are ready to conduct elections free from hacking and online attempts to suppress the vote.

[appalachiablue]

3. For the coming election the stakes couldn't be higher.

It's all out democracy on the line. ~ I enjoy posting stories and news, esp. in these wild times.