Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, has declared victory in a heated gubernatorial race, but Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams is not conceding. Kemp purged tens of thousands of votes as part of a crackdown that adversely impacted black voters. We speak to attorney, activist Anoa Changa and investigative journalist Greg Palast.Â
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go back to paper ballots keep the creeps out
Every so often people (for whatever reason) move out of the state. If they are registered voters their voting rights are no longer active. They must register in the state they move to..If these voters names are not removed off the registry then the system gets clogged with many, many inactive voters. The state voters registry , regardless of the race, gender etc. must be removed..Most probable reason for so many black votes being eliminated from the state registry comes from the Obama era. Blacks that had never voted before came out of the wood works and registered just to help get Obama in office. Most of them never voted again. Their votes remained on state registry for 10 years or so and were removed for different reasons such as moved out of state or lack of interest in voting over a 10 year period. Naturally this occured at the wrong time because it was midterm elections..Abrams and 90 percent of her followers used this lack of votes to complain about wrong doings in the state secretaries office. Also, consider the absentee ballot and provisionals…kemp was so many thousands of votes ahead toward the end of the state counts that abrams could not catch up even with all the counts left. He tried to tell her to do the MATH. either she and her followers were too dumb to figure math or she just didn't care..I don't blame her for wanting them all counted but when it comes to seeing that more counts wont help then just do the honorable thing and concede..
This is what happens when we have a President who allows corruption by pressuring and threatening those involved to shut down any options that Abrams can take to challenge this vote. Trump has declared the winner already, and that is where this will end.
I don't care much for Kemp. However, I don't care much for Abrams either. I just don't want my city and state to end up like other states. You know,… a blue pilled, cucked, man-gina and Soy Boy lookin', jackass liberal state that has an infestation full of homeless people.
Thousands of votes left uncounted in the Georgia governor's race, and no one even seems to care! Why is there no investigation into this? And then Donald Trump declares that Abrams lost, and that was the END of her campaign. Amazing how Trump can just say it and it is done. There MUST be an investigation, and SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, should give a shit about this level of cheating that is clear to everyone.
The fact that there were not enough voting machines in Fulton County is not the responsibility of the Georgia Sec. of State. The preparation for the county for voting is the responsibility of the County government not the state. Fulton county is controlled by democrats. They "voter obstructionists" in this case were other democrats. The have only themselves to blame for the vote problems on election day.
So that was Jessica the 30 something daughter of 92 year old Christine Jordon? She had the child at 72? And a 92 year old woman who has voted in a precinct for over 40 years is denied the right to vote? Right. There was no record of her or no precinct worker recognized her — impossible. No one asked for her address and then offered her a provisional ballot? I think that whole story is very questionable. All precincts in all states have both democrat and republican poll officials and no doubt she was voting in a democrat precinct meaning it would have been under democratic control. I don't believe those stories one minute.
Sherrod Brown said the election in Georgia was stolen
Christine , the 92 year old civil rights leaders should have been awarded a Medal of Honor instead of Orin Hatch.?!?
How can this be legal
That peckerwood KKKemp stole that election in broad daylight!!
If you can't beat 'em….JUST CHEAT 'EM!!
Shows just how bad Kemp was as secretary of state and what a lousy governor he will be in the future. Hope his career will be closely watched.
The United States of America has probably one of most corrupt voting system in the World. A super power, are we kidding? Prove it and we monitor other countries, unbelievable?
What a joke in Georgia elections, it the most corrupt voting system in the World. Kemp is a crook and he supervise his own elections, unbelievable.
Why is it that when a black candidate loses, it's racism , cheating or gerrymandering ? Could it be that they just lost because they didn't get the votes needed to win ? What should it be called when a junior senator wins the Whitehouse doubles the debt, makes our Military weak, makes bad deals with enemy countries, has a lousy economy, lousy job numbers and gets reelected ?
Yep,Thieves May Win In This Life, But God's Justice is Waiting For Them In The Next Life.
It IS appalling…Kemp is NOT legitimate. Even if he has 1 vote more, it's not an accurate picture of the state's mind, BECAUSE of KEMP ENDORSED AND LED VOTER SUPPRESSION. I'm just shaking my head here at how they don't seem to give a shat that the man is a criminal cheater.
Should have a revote…supervised by another democratic state(seeing as how they don't seem to have as prevalent number of whining cheaters.
American politics is off the rails. Why did so many give that idiot air time?! I hope she succeeds in her lawsuit. Primarily the repub party has just destroyed, on a national stage, their reputation for 'the land of the free and the home of the brave.' You cannot have an ' election' when the person running the 'election' is also campaigning for said position. Blatant, and unbelievable transparency. If I lived there, I could never respect the man, no , matter which party he was. Shocked up north by this unbelievable behaviour that isn't even denied believably… he makes me embarrassed to be white. This whole election/president has been 100 x's worse for the country than either Nixon, and definitely Clinton. So sorry to watch you guys go thru this bs. 2018, right?! DAYUM!!!
They are as bad as 3rd world
They are hypro rite
Everyone in America old enough and in their right mind knows the truth Kemp made himself win through voter suppression it was done in plain sight anyone says different they're his supporter or those who aided him and won't admit it ! How can someone run for office and be over the voting. process. That's like stealing from a baby easy breezy! Georgia election was just for show and a joke of democracy on those who voted !
Not fair to the Georgian people!!!
This is an unfair election!!!
Problem is, he would have to do something to be guilty of it. He didn't purge anything. Stop with the fake, divisive 'news'
She said the vote were switching as well just like Texas. I wonder if Beto O'rourke has looked into his voting and the systems because maybe it's the same machines they have rigged to do that. He conceded much too fast but It should be automatically all same equipment in major polling places and ballots while being provided extras on site. Especially having 700 machines in a warehouse not being used and others sent out without power chords. There's no question of it being rigged. After every voting cycle all machines should be given to law enforcement and automatically audited to ensure nothing was done deliberately to modify votes or other information.
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingham and Trump can't say anything about these problems but shout to the roof re Florida election…hypocrites!
Corrupt state of Georgia, yet again showing how despicable the American government can sink. Hopefully, hopefully Abrams wins
Anoha and Palast this is great.
How can a secretary of state run for office of governor? This is total conflict of interest. May be the Americans should go to Iran and learn how to conduct fair elections.
This is not my original thought. "It's not who votes that matters, it's who counts the votes that matters."
democracy feels like an illusion
America is supposedly one of the world's great democracies? This is not how elections work here in the UK. The new Congress should order an investigation
Why did the commentator blow off Greg Palast? Very rude.
Democrats scream at people about voting but when things like this happen they're no where to be found
The COLOR WHITE is no longer a sign of Purity. I would rather Trust the Color Black Brown or any other.
I truly and sincerely wish Stacey Abrams luck – at the very least, better luck than Tim Canova had in Florida. And I fully expect certain Democrats to hypocritically screech about this, solely because the voter suppressor is a Republican, when they utterly ignored a Democratic incumbent called Debbie Wasserman Schultz doing the same thing in Broward County, and seeing to it that the votes were duly destroyed before they could be re-counted. (If indeed she did not just do it again on Tuesday, of which possibility I am harbor more than a suspicion.) While this is utterly sickening, I will be well and truly shocked – pleasantly so – should anything be done to redress it. Both right wings of what Gore Vidal quite properly called the Property Party – Democrat and Republican – are overtly and cavalierly corrupt. But to see this happen to black voters in 2018 is sick-making. More and more I suspect we all dreamed the 1960s.
The rule that hurts America every day:
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The things we're seeing in Florida's, Georgia's and Texas's mid-term elections is what Jill Stein has been hollering at the top of her lungs about what happened in Milwaukee, Detroit and Pittsburgh during the 2016 election. Trump spewed some of the most racist falsehoods and blatant lies to scare his base during these elections and to think the Russia probe is a Witch Hunt is ridiculous. Trump made deals with whoever he could to get elected president including Russians; especially since he's been laundering Russian Capital flight money since the 1980's. If there was some MAGA goal involved maybe Trump's actions would be justified but the man has zero moral compass or loyalty. Jeff Sessions has been a loyal solder to Trump from day one and Trump didn't have the decency to fire the man face to face. Trump and everybody on his team except maybe Jarvanka and Steve Bannon knew the script had been flipped and they were being set up when Trump won the presidency. A parent would protect his kids and not take them to work with them in this kind of situation. But the family is a group of petty crooks so now the kids are stuck in the same pile of Do-Do their father is in. Chris Hedge's latest book has a chapter on gambling which chronicles Trump's Atlantic City gambling venture. Trump was investing heavily other peoples money in his three Casinos at a time when States across the country were legalizing Gambling. Any wise investor should have known to taper their investments especially if you're the King of deal-makers but all three casinos went bust. Carl I. the Vulture Capitalist, the person that told Trump to put Steve M. in his position bought the casinos and did what all good Vulture Capitalist do, devoured whatever was left on the dead casino's carcass. We've got a person that doesn't understand basic economics running the World's Reserve currency and he's doing what he does best Bankrupting it. I have no doubt when Trump calls or gets a call from Carl I. on his unsecured phone the tape recorders at Germany, Russia and China's Embassy start working overtime because they know Trump is easily manipulated. At least with Nixon he knew when to fold them but with Spanky it's full speed ahead. The tanning booth, the chemicals he puts in his hair, the Diet Cokes and the junk food have fried his brain; this is it the final game for US Empire.