How Brian Kemp Illegally STOLE The Georgia ElectionCenk Uygur talks to Palast on The Young Turks' Rebel HQ
Brian Kemp purged half a million voters in 2017 ahead of his race for the governor's office against the Democratic Party's candidate, Stacey Abrams. He said they left the state. (There must have been moving vans everywhere!) Our experts went through the list name by name and found at least 340,134 voters had never moved. You’re talking a third of a million voters who were canned — with no notice. They showed up in mass and they were either handed provisional ballots, which were thrown in the garbage — and about 50,000 people were simply denied a provisional ballot in violation of federal law.
It's as evil as it is brilliant, because Abrams was prepared to fight over the provisional ballots. She even got a judge to say count them — but you can’t count provisional ballots which were never handed out. It was a pure steal. And the trick that Kemp used ...more