Ok, maybe - Showdown in Georgia Governor’s Race Reflects a Larger Fight Over Voting Rights
By Astead W. Herndon and Trip Gabriel Oct. 15, 2018
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The current controversy began after an analysis last week by The Associated Press .. https://apnews.com/fb011f39af3b40518b572c8cce6e906c .. found that 70 percent of 53,000 new registrations currently suspended were for black Georgians.
A state law passed in 2017 at Mr. Kemp’s urging requires an “exact match” between a voter’s registration form and his or her government documents. A missing hyphen, or a difference between a married and a maiden name, causes a registration to be suspended.
Many of the stalled registrations were voters signed up by the New Georgia Project, Ms. Abrams’s group, which has worked for years to boost minorities’ registrations.
Despite being on hold, all of the 53,000 pending voters will be able to vote this year with a proper photo ID that matches their registration, said Michael McDonald, an elections law expert at the University of Florida, who was an expert witness in a lawsuit over the issue of exact-match registration.
But Ms. Abrams said uncertainty alone might cause many new voters not to show up on Election Day, especially low-propensity voters in rural areas who are not following the issue closely.
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