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Martin Luther King’s Cousin Blocked by Kemp from Casting a BallotDespite Voting in every Election for 50 Years

Today I visited 92-year-old Christine Jordan, who was blocked from voting in Georgia. Brian Kemp took away her right to vote exactly 50 years to the day since she

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Martin Luther King’s Cousin Blocked from Voting by Brian KempDespite Voting in every Election for 50 Years

Today I visited 92-year-old Christine Jordan, who was blocked from voting in Georgia.

Kemp took away her right to vote exactly 50 years to the day since she

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92-Year-Old Georgia Voter BlockedJim Crow in 59 seconds… why Stacey won’t quit

This is why Stacey Abrams won’t quit.

It begins with 92-year-old Christine Jordan, blocked from voting. By Brian Kemp. Watch this 59-seconds and you won’t wonder why Stacey Abrams won’t roll over and concede to Kemp.

Christine Jordan, aged 92, was blocked from voting today, thrown out of the polls with her walker — just one victim of Kemp’s mass cancellation of voter registrations — more than half a million Georgians purged in the night, stealthily, hidden from

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92-year-old Georgia Voter BlockedJim Crow in 59 seconds… why Stacey won’t quit

This is why Stacey Abrams won’t quit.

It begins with 92-year-old Christine Jordan, blocked from voting. By Brian Kemp. Watch this 59-seconds and you won’t wonder why Stacey Abrams won’t roll over and concede to Kemp.

Christine Jordan, aged 92, was blocked from voting today, thrown out of the polls with her walker — just one victim of Kemp’s mass cancellation of voter registrations — more than half a million Georgians purged in the night, stealthily, hidden from

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Back of the Bus Ballot in Georgia

"My right to vote was taken from me," says Rahiem Shabazz, filmmaker and victim of Georgia's Purgin' General, Brian Kemp. "This is voter suppression and he is the Chief of Voter Suppression."

We escorted Rahiem to his voting station. They told him he couldn’t vote and gave him a provisional ballot. Kemp has already ruled his vote won’t be counted. Rahiem asked me whether he can go to federal court to get it counted. I called our lawyers. Yes. This is 2018, not 1958.

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Purged Voters’ “Provisional” Ballots Could Decide Georgia Governor Race

[Macon, Georgia.] On Sunday, I watched President Donald Trump warn a rally in Macon, Georgia, that Stacey Abrams, running to become the first Black female governor in US history, “is one of the most extreme far left politicians in the entire country,"  adding, "you know that! You put Stacey in there, you’re going to have Georgia turn into Venezuela. I don’t think the people of Georgia like that.”

Rahiem Shabazz, a wrongfully purged Georgia voter. Photo: Zach D. Roberts, © 2018

Trump's rant against Abrams has not driven away her many supporters.  But voters like Atlanta filmmaker Rahiem Shabazz are being driven

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Palast in Georgia: Trump Rally and Purged Voters

[Macon, Georgia.]

This is Greg Palast reporting from Georgia where I went to a Trump rally and caught up with a wrongfully purged voter.

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Salon: How to Steal Georgia in 7 Minutes

Greg Palast, the journalist who earlier this month tipped Salon off to the widespread voter disenfranchisement in Georgia, uncovers how Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State, wrongly canceled the registrations of no less than 340,134 voters in 2016 and 2017.

Palast discloses, based on evidence obtained through

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Number of Georgia Voters Purged by Brian Kemp Continues to ClimbInvestigation reveals 340,000 voters were improperly removed

CEO of CohereOne who reviewed the list says, “340,000 of those voters remained at their original address. They should never

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Salon – Election expert Greg Palast: Thanks to GOP voter suppression, “Democrats may have effectively lost”

There are elements of about the current Georgia governor's race that may fundamentally

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