During his time as secretary of state, Kemp led a crusade against voter fraud, including “investigat[ing] voter-registration drives by Asian American and predominately black groups,” wrote Michael Wines in a July 2016 New York Times article. Kemp actually launched a criminal inquiry into the registration of 85,000 new voters, “many of them minorities,” continued Wines, but “found problems with only 25 of the registrants.” And here’s the kicker. After all the time, money, and publicity, “no charges were filed.” Yet the intimidation was real—too real and too familiar for black folks.
