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November 28, 2018

Abrams' New Voting Rights Org -- Fair Fight Georgia -- Files Suit

By Greg Palast

Abrams, who has formed a non-partisan voter protection organization, Fair Fight Georgia, cites, among other racially biased attacks on the rights of citizens to vote, the wrongful mass purge of voters by Secretary of State Brian Kemp -- who was Abrams' opponent and the presumptive winner.

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From Greg Palast Website

Charges Kemp "grossly mismanaged" election and "unconstitutionally purged" Georgia's voter rolls.

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Stacey Abrams, who refused to officially concede defeat in her bid for Governor, filed suit today [Nov. 27] in federal court in Atlanta charging the entire election process was hopelessly tainted. Abrams, who has formed a non-partisan voter protection organization, Fair Fight Georgia, cites, among other racially biased attacks on the rights of citizens to vote, the wrongful mass purge of voters by Secretary of State Brian Kemp -- who was Abrams' opponent and the presumptive winner.

The suit states Kemp: "grossly mismanaged an election that deprived Georgia citizens, and particularly citizens of color, of their fundamental right to vote."

The complaint charges that Kemp: "unconstitutionally purged the rolls of nearly 10 percent of Georgia's registered voters."

It goes on to say that: "Kemp purged hundreds of thousands of voter registrations under the 'use it or lose it' policy. Many of these purged voters had not moved, had not died, and had not been convicted of a felony. The registration information for these voters remained accurate; the Secretary of State simply deemed them no longer eligible to vote because, after not voting for a few years they failed, one time, to return a postcard." (See full complaint.)

The Palast Fund will make available to the Court the list of 340,134 Georgia voters our experts have determined were, without question, wrongly purged from the voter rolls. This purge list, obtained by the Palast Fund through a lawsuit against Kemp, includes Christine Jordan, the 92-year-old cousin of Martin Luther King Jr.

Abrams' co-plaintiff is State Sen. Nikema Williams. Williams was arrested in the State Capitol, then strip-searched, for standing with constituents during a legally permitted protest of the blatantly bent election. (See our exclusive interview with Senator Williams for SalonTV.)



Authors Website: http://www.gregpalast.com

Authors Bio:
Greg Palast’s investigative reports appear in Rolling Stone, the Guardian and on BBC Television. His latest film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, on how Donald Trump stole the 2016 election, is available on Amazon. Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde.
Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. Palast's reports appear on BBC's Newsnight and in Britain's Guardian, Rolling Stone and Harper's.

Palast is best known as the investigative reported who uncovered how Katherine Harris purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls in the 2000 Presidential Election.

Palast directed the US government's largest racketeering case in history--winning a $4.3 billion jury award. He also conducted the investigation of the Exxon Valdez on behalf of the Alaskan Natives.

Palast is recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.

Greg Palast's newest book, Vultures' Picnic will be released by Penguin Books in November of 2011. Find out more info at VulturesPicnic.org

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