Obama ethics chief slams Kemp: He shouldn't be treated as 'normal' governor

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Norm Eisen, a former ethics chief under President Obama, on Sunday said he does not believe Georgia Gov.-elect Brian Kemp should be treated as a "normal head of the state" after a tight race marred by voting issues and accusations of voter suppression.

"I was a U.S. ambassador," Eisen, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, tweeted on Sunday, linking to an article about those who were allegedly prevented from voting during the Georgia elections. "If my host country had attacked democracy in this way, I would have publicly slammed them & called for economic sanctions."

"I certainly would not have treated the 'winning' candidate is a normal head of the state, & we should not do so here," Eisen added.

Link to tweet

Throughout Kemp's campaign, his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams accused him of aggressive voter suppression, particularly against minorities. Kemp was the secretary of state overseeing Georgia's elections during the election.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/417367-obama-ethics-chief-slams-kemp-after-contested-georgia-governor-race

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1. I find it morally questionable when someone continues to oversee an election they are participating in. ( n/t )

[Cha]

2. KICK! Thank You!

[struggle4progress]

3. We need some changes in Federal law to prevent this in the future

and there clearly is the power to do so

Art IV Sec 4: ... The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government ...

Amend XIV Sec 1 ... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws ...
Sec 2 ... But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,15 and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State ...