Even if voter suppression was not the reason for Stacey Abrams's loss, its insidious nature needs to be addressed
, a Democrat who narrowly failed in her bid last year to become the first black governor of Georgia, does not concede that she lost the election. “I concede I’m not the governor of Georgia,” she told a reporter from the Associated Press on March 19th. But she blamed her failure to come first in the poll on cheating. She says that voter suppression in Georgia kept her supporters—mostly blacks—away from the polls.
The House Oversight Committee is interested in the “exact match” voter-validation programme that was designed to ensure that voters’ registration applications matched the information that the state had on file. In 2018 adistrict judge, Eleanor Ross, said that raised “grave concerns” about disenfranchising minority voters vastly more often than whites.
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