https://www.washingtontimes.co...p-voter-suppression/

Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp calls charge 'incredibly dishonest'



Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, continued Sunday to accuse her Republican opponent of voter suppression even though the state recently broke its voter-registration record on his watch.

Ms. Abrams alleged that Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has stalled 53,000 voter-registration forms as part of a “pattern of behavior” aimed at gaming the election in the GOP’s favor.

“It’s part of a pattern of behavior where he tries to tilt the playing field in his favor or in the favor of his party,” the Georgia House Minority Leader told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “This should not require the erosion of public trust.”

Mr. Kemp has blasted the voter-suppression claim, calling it “incredibly dishonest” and pointing out that the 53,000 voters whose registrations were flagged for discrepancies may still cast ballots.

“The 53,000 Georgians on our ‘pending’ list can vote in the November 6th election,” said Mr. Kemp in a Wednesday post. “Her dark money voter registration group submitted sloppy forms. Now, they are faking outrage for political gain.”

His office announced last week that Georgia “has shattered has shattered the all-time voter registration record with over 6,915,000 active and inactive voters on the rolls,” a number expected to exceed seven million as the final registrations are processed.

“Despite what you hear or read, the numbers are clear,” said Mr. Kemp in a statement. “While outside agitators disparage this office and falsely attack us, we have kept our head down and remained focused on ensuring secure, accessible, and fair elections for all voters.”

A civil-rights coalition filed a complaint Thursday after the Associated Press reported that 53,000 voter applications were pending for violations of the state’s “exact match” law, which requires registrations to match the information on voters’ driver’s licenses or Social Security cards.

The report also said that about 70 percent of the voters affected by the hold were black, prompting Ms. Abrams to suggest that the “exact match” law passed by the state legislature in 2017 was biased.

“When you know that what you’re doing is going to have a disproportionate effect on people of color and on women and you do it anyway, that erodes the public trust in the system, and that’s problematic,” Ms. Abrams said.

If elected, the Georgia House Minority Leader would become the first black woman governor of any state. Polls show the contest is virtually deadlocked, with Mr. Kemp holding a slight edge.

Mr. Abrams, who has also called for Mr. Kemp’s resignation, said the voter-registration law is designed to “scare people out of voting and make it harder for those who are willing to push through.”

“The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about actually blocking their ability to do so,” she told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Mr. Kemp described the allegation as a “manufactured ‘crisis’ to spur turnout for my opponent.”

“The fact is that it has never been easier to register to vote and get engaged in the electoral process in Georgia, and we are incredibly proud to report this new record,” said Mr. Kemp.

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That communist will stop at nothing.
They were touting the largest mail in ballots and absentee ballots yet.
You know what that means. The dems are going to try to cheat.

What is so hard about exact match?

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You know what that means. The dems are going to try to cheat.

If there was an election where they didn't cheat, I would begin looking for para's comet.



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What is so hard about exact match?

Cheating.



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Georgia Dem gubernatorial nominee says 'blue wave' will include undocumented immigrants
https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ocumented-immigrants

A “blue wave” in the midterm elections will be fueled in part by undocumented immigrants, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams said at a campaign rally last week.

“But the thing of it is, the blue wave is African-American. It’s white, it’s Latino, it’s Asian Pacific Islander. It is disabled. It is differently abled. It is LGBTQ. It is law enforcement. It is veterans,” Abrams said to cheers. “It is made up of those who are told they are not worthy of being here ... those who are documented and undocumented.”

Abrams, running for governor in Georgia, made the comments at a rally on Tuesday with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., according to the Washington Free Beacon. The remarks quickly made headlines, as they appeared to suggest illegal immigrant participation at the polls -- though Abrams may have simply been saying their interests would be represented.

GOP nominee Brian Kemp told Fox News on Monday that Abrams "wants illegals to vote in Georgia."

An award-winning romance novelist, Abrams is a former state representative and was endorsed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her gubernatorial bid.

They have been sending out boat loads of mailers to the northern suburbs of Atlanta (Roswell). Funny thing is all they do is tear down Kemp. Nothing in there about her plans for Georgia and how she will make it better..no surprise there. I do see an alarming number of her political signs in yards. Sad that so many of my neighbors want to ruin the state I call home.

This lying socialist democrat will benefit from millions in liberal funds trying to turn Georgia blue.

We cannot let this happen. I hope the real voters in Georgia see thru this effort.

Atlanta voters are the ones I worry about. they're the MSP/Rochester voters of Georgia.

RMD

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This lying socialist democrat will benefit from millions in liberal funds trying to turn Georgia blue.

We cannot let this happen. I hope the real voters in Georgia see thru this effort.

Atlanta voters are the ones I worry about. they're the MSP/Rochester voters of Georgia.

RMD

Yep. Atlanta, Macon, Albany, Augusta and Savannah voters are bringing this state down. Hopefully we Republicans can slow the slide as long as we get out and vote.

Abrams Flames Out in Georgia Gubernatorial Debate

https://spectator.org/abrams-f...ubernatorial-debate/

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, has always been a controversial figure in the Peach State. In addition to burning the state flag on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in 1992, she was embroiled for three years in a vote fraud scandal involving a “registration initiative” called the New Georgia Project (NGP), an organization partially funded by a $500,000 contribution from George Soros. While that scandal played out, Abrams drew a salary of $177,000 for her part-time work as NGP’s CEO, yet failed to pay $54,000 in federal taxes and $96,000 in government-backed student loans.

It’s little wonder that Abrams is running behind her GOP opponent, Secretary of State Brian Kemp. But why is the gap only 1.5 points in a red state like Georgia? The answer is that most of her campaign contributions come from out-of-state donors. The Soros connection, for example, doesn’t stop with NGP. The Atlanta Journal Constitution, by no means a conservative publication, reports: “George Soros has given $1.25 million to Abrams’ political action committee, GeorgiaNEXT, since 2014. He also donated $1 million to the Georgia Democratic Party this year to support her campaign for governor.”

And the Soros cash is by no means all of the out-of-state money Abrams has received. She has received illions in donations from “independent groups” and Democratic political action committees that have been spending lavishly on behalf of the Abrams campaign. Moreover, most of the candidate’s individual contributions have come from out of town as well. The AJC also reports that she has received $1.2 million in contributions from residents of New York City, $581,000 from the denizens of DC, $429,000 from Nancy Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco, $300,000 from residents of Los Angeles, ad infinitum.

Is all this lefty largesse enough to propel Abrams into the Georgia governor’s mansion? Not if she can’t do better in a more competitive environment than she was faced with during last night’s Georgia Public Broadcasting debate, which was moderated by Abrams-friendly public “journalists” who repeatedly tossed her softball questions, interrupted her Republican opponent, and gave an absurd amount of time for the goofy effusions of Libertarian Ted Metz. The tone of the debate became clear during the introduction of the candidates by lead moderator Lisa Rayam, Capital correspondent for Georgia Public Broadcasting:

First, Stacey Abrams, a Democrat, is the first woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly, and the first African-American to lead the Georgia House of Representatives.

Brian Kemp, a Republican, has served as Georgia’s Secretary of State since 2010.

Ted Metz, a Libertarian is retired from a career as an insurance and financial professional.

It’s never a good sign in a debate when the moderator introduces one candidate with twice the verbiage and three times the enthusiasm as the other candidates. And it went downhill from there. The first question was addressed to Metz whose presence there was a waste of voter time. He has as much chance of becoming the Governor of Georgia as does my cat. He was asked about his proposal to replace Georgia’s income tax with a sales tax. The insinuation was that a regressive sales tax would be hard on low-income Georgians on fixed incomes. But Metz didn’t get that, so he explained that the plan’s logistics would be “really easy.”

This produced about ten seconds of awkward silence in the studio, after which Abrams was asked about the flag-burning incident on the steps of the Georgia Capitol: “Do you stand by those actions and what message do you have for the people who are concerned that you burned a state symbol even though it contained a Confederate emblem?”Abrams responded with a word salad about how proud she was to be a Georgian, how she grew up in the state, went to Spelman College, went away to graduate school, but came back because she wanted to make Georgia a better place. Then she implied that burning the flag was part of that project:

I, along with many other Georgians including the governor of Georgia, were deeply disturbed by the racial divisiveness that was embedded in the state flag with that Confederate symbol. I took an action of peaceful protest.

At this point she quickly changed the subject to Medicaid expansion and jobs:

What I’m fight for now is more of Georgia values, making sure that we expand Medicaid so that everyone has access to health insurance… and making sure that everyone can get good prosperous jobs across the state of Georgia.

Later, she expanded on the jobs theme by indicating that she would make expanding Medicaid her day one priority, that it would save rural hospitals and create 56,000 jobs in the state and cover haf a million Georgians. All of this is fiction, of course. Medicaid’s lowpayment rates are one of the reasons rural hospitals are closing. Expanding Medicaid would actually cause a loss of jobs across the state in the private sector. She referenced Mike Pence’s expansion of Medicaid in Indiana, but was silent about the accompanying work requirements, which she doesn’t support. When Kemp was permitted to speak, he mentioned Abrams’ tax issues:

It is concerning that Ms. Abrams, being a tax attorney, but did not pay taxes while she took the opportunity to loan her own campaign $50,000. I don’t think anyone should get away with that. When you are putting politics over paying the taxes you owe, that makes you unfit to be Governor.

After Metz also raised the issue, Abrams blamed her tax evasion on Hurricane Katrina:

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit my family. My parents lost their church and most of their income. I became a primary source of income. For the last 15 years I have taken responsibility for my parents… you can defer tax payments but not to responsibility for your family. I paid my bills.

The problem with this balderdash is that Katrina hit a decade before Abrams incurred the unpaid tax liability. And the unpaid student loans (which no one asked about) were incurred a decade before the hurricane. So, this was never about supporting her family. Kemp also pressed Abrams on her invitation to “undocumented” Georgians to vote for her in November. “Ms. Abrams, in a recent video, you called on illegals to vote for you in this election. You were asking for documented and undocumented folks to be a part of your winning strategy. Why are you encouraging people to break the law for you in the election?” She responded with a red herring:

I know the law when it comes to voting. I have never asked anyone legally ineligible to vote to cast ballots. I have asked for those legally eligible to cast ballots. We took you to court in 2016.… You used the exact system under dispute right now.

This is a reference to a bogus lawsuit her organization has filed against Kemp, claiming that he is “suppressing the vote.” It is frivolous nonsense. When she pulled the same stunt in 2016, the case went nowhere. Her registration drive submitted thousands of improper registrations and the Board of Elections tossed them. All of this is well known to residents of Georgia, including the moderators of last night’s debate, one of whom came to Abrams’ rescue by questioning Kemp if he had a conflict of interest by merely running: “Secretary Kemp, do you believe you can impartially oversee the state elections while also running for Governor?”

Kemp explained that all the heavy lifting in the elections is done at the local level, where the election boards tally the votes and certify them. Only after that process is completed are the numbers delivered to the Secretary of State. But no one was listening in the studio. The purpose of the exercise was to provide a platform for Abrams to make excuses for her malfeasance and to make a few promises she has no intention of keeping. Stacey Abrams is a corrupt, fiscally incontinent tax dodger. The voters would be insane to elect her Governor.

It’s a scary thought to me that someone like Abraham has been able to get as far in this campaign as she has. I think she secured a lot of no votes by stating she wants to make Georgia a sanctuary state. Her views on guns don’t help her here either.

Looks like all of those absentee ballots will count.

Judge temporarily blocks Georgia's 'Signature Match' law



http://www.fox5atlanta.com/new...vhtLOx6RWTuGYhJzwmpA

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Looks like all of those absentee ballots will count.

Judge temporarily blocks Georgia's 'Signature Match' law



http://www.fox5atlanta.com/new...vhtLOx6RWTuGYhJzwmpA

DAMN!! Obummer appointee?

RMD

Same screwball that burned a GA flag on the state capitol in 1992 ? Sounds like a real peach of a human

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Same screwball that burned a GA flag on the state capitol in 1992 ? Sounds like a real peach of a human

Florida and Georgia both seem to have lost their minds with these Dem candidates for governor. I hope both of them crash and burn big time.

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Florida and Georgia both seem to have lost their minds with these Dem candidates for governor. I hope both of them crash and burn big time.

It is a little scary seeing some of my neighbors with Stacey Abrams signs in their yards. I just can't imagine the havoc someone like her would cause to Georgia.

^^^ Yeah, mostly the nuttier types tend to run for the House of Representatives and then top out there.

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What is so hard about exact match?

Cheating.



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You know, when you got 20 or forms to fill out sometimes the details get mixed up...