Stacey Abrams is sending her message far and wide, that Georgia’s governor election was not “free and fair,” and that secretary of state and Sen.-elect Brian Kemp (R-GA) is to blame.
“It was not a free and fair election,” Abrams told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “We had thousands of Georgians who were purged from the rolls wrongly.”
“It was not fair to the thousands who were forced to wait in long lines because they were at polling place that’s were under-resourced, or worse, they had no poling places to go to because more than 300 had been closed,” she continued. “It was not fair to the thousands who had been put on hold with their registrations. And it was not fair to those who filled out absentee ballots, and, depending on the county you sent it to, it was either counted or not counted—assuming you received it in time.”
“Brian Kemp oversaw for eight years the systemic dismantling of our democracy, and that meant there could not be free and fair elections in Georgia this year,” she concluded.
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— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) November 20, 2018
Keep the pressure on, Stacey.
Absolutely keep the pressure on. Let them call her “unprofessional” or a “sore loser” or whatever. Only by continuing to speak out over these issues repeatedly and consistently will they improve.
Sadly Georgia governor race was not a free and fair election… but since a Republican won, nothing will be done about it, and anybody who points it out is a “sore loser”
So what’s the next step? Do we have to wait through god-knows how many election cycles highlighting the corruption in SecState offices to get Dems elected and start rectifying the institutional problems? Will we have a democracy left?
You gotta admit, Kemp had ambitions and he knew exactly how to fulfill them. Now, in spite of the closeness of the vote, he’s gonna govern like he’s got a mandate.
Does this mean that I don’t have to pay my state taxes?