Brian Kemp's lead for Georgia governor may be smaller than the number of voters he suppressed
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), his party’s nominee for governor, clung to a narrow lead in his race against former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D) as of early Wednesday morning. With nearly all of the vote counted, the unofficial total showed Kemp’s lead was less than 68,000 votes out of more than 3.9 million cast. If Kemp’s final percentage is less than an outright majority, the race would go to a run-off.
But thanks to heavy-handed voter suppression tactics (and possibly some pure ineptitude) in his current job overseeing the state’s elections, Kemp’s margin of victory may well be smaller than the number of eligible citizens he prevented from exercising their right to vote.
On Tuesday, ThinkProgress watched voters in Gwinnett County endure four-and-a-half hour lines at polling places due to broken voting machines.
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The majority-minority county strongly favored Democratic candidates on Tuesday, but not even a court-ordered extension of voting hours could make up for the reality that many of the citizens who tried to cast their votes during the morning did not have time to wait or return. Similar issues were reported in Fulton County as well.
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