DesertDrifter??? Georgia: voter suppression claims ramp up in governor’s race as lawsuits are filed
""...some statistics to make you sit up and take notice:" [...] --- Turnout among black voters soared in last month’s Georgia primary, a show of strength that could bode well for Democrats in this year’s contests for governor and other statewide offices. p-The number of black voters rose 43 percent in the May 22 election when compared with 2010, the last time there was a competitive race for governor, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of demographic data released this week by the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. p-The data show the broad majority of African-American voters pulled Democratic ballots, which could bolster the hope of Stacey Abrams, who is racing to be the nation’s first black female governor. Her Republican opponent will be decided in a July 24 runoff between Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp. p-At the same time, the proportion of white voters continues to decline. White voter participation in last month’s primary was down 9 percent from 2010. And white voters are more likely to be conservative, making up 93 percent of the GOP primary vote — and just 30 percent of the Democratic support. --- "
Issue has been a flashpoint in the race, which pits Democrat Stacey Abrams against Republican secretary of state, Brian Kemp
Erin Durkin
Thu 18 Oct 2018 05.47 AEDT Last modified on Thu 18 Oct 2018 06.09 AEDT
A supporter waits for the arrival of Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams during a rally in Morrow, Georgia, on 9 October. Photograph: John Amis/EPA
Allegations of voter suppression in the Georgia governor’s election are ramping up – with lawsuits filed after the state’s most diverse county rejected an unusually large share of absentee ballots.
Also this week, dozens of African American senior citizens were ordered off a bus they were planning to ride to the polls from their senior center, a move advocates called an “intimidation tactic”.
Voter suppression has been a flashpoint in the race, which pits Democrat Stacey Abrams, who if elected would become the first African American woman governor of any state, against Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brian Kemp.
Abrams accused her opponent on Sunday of creating a “miasma of fear” around voting, after civil rights groups filed a lawsuit charging that Kemp sought to disenfranchise more than 50,000 voters, up to 80% of them minorities, by removing them from registration rolls if there is any discrepancy in the spelling, hyphenation, or spacing of their names.
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