results. do you still feel that way? i do. we have seen unprecedented turnout in this race from people who normally do not engage and do not vote. some of that has been driven by the conversations of the voter suppression. one of the best ways to encourage people to use something is to tell them someone is trying to take it away. luckily we have had two court decisions against brian kemp. one that requires absentee ballots be counted even if the signatures aren t exactly the same and a second one that forces him to stop using the exact match system to disqualify voters who are qualified. but what is more important is that we have talked about issues. we ve talked about jobs and health care and education, and that s also engaging people and turning them out in waves that we have not seen in georgia in decades. the president is going to be in macon, georgia, today. he said you just simply weren t qualified to be governor. he didn t say why. how did you take that assessment? i find
state, native americans are well represented in communities that have a p.o. box. in the state of georgia, we re talking about the exact match system that requires people to have their name on their registration be identical to their name perhaps on their i.d. card. something that s a hyphen or an apostrophe could turn up making your application pinged and many are feeling their vote won t count because of this. every vote counts. doesn t matter who you support. it s one of the best parts of being an american. i encourage everyone to get out there and do it. thank you so much. next, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein defending the russia investigation despite president trump s claims that it is a rigged witch hunt. what rod rosenstein told the wall street journal, that is next. but first, this morning, the trump name taken down from an apartment building in manhattan
let s start in georgia where the man running is also secretary of state, and kemp already cut 600 voters from the rolls, and now there s an exact match system, where if the voter s name doesn t match exactly, that name is put into a pending list, and 53,000 people and counting on now on that list. nearly 70% of them are african-american, in a state that is 32% black. kemp s opponent happens to be the first black woman that is the first major nominee running in state history. and now one democratic member of the commission says the real purpose was to back up that millions voted illegally.
blames everyone else. voting should not be a question of trust on the part of voters, whether they can trust the system. and right now he is eroding the public trust in the system because 53,000 people have been told you may be able to vote, you may not. it s up to you to prove it. leader abrams, are you suggesting you haven t said it on the show so far, but the way this is being depicted in georgia media and across the country is that this is brian kemp being racially motivated. are you saying that he is being racially motivated in who he is targeting here? i would say that we have known since 2016 that the exact match system has a disproportionate effect on people of color and women. he was sued for this exact problem and forced to restore 33,000 illegally canceled registrations and turned around and got the state legislature to pass a law to allow him to make the same mistake again. when you know what you re doing is going to have a
state legislature to allow him to make the same mistake again. when you know what you re doing will have a disproportion naths affect on people of color and women, that erodes the public trust in the system and that is problem matic can you explain to voters why you think the exact match system is disproportionately targeting women and people of color? it requires that there not be any discrepancy between somebody s i.d. and somebody s name and how they appear on the voter rolls. exactly. so the professor covered by the a.p. story, this is a college professor who has a hyphen in her last name. because the hyphen was left out, either by someone typing in the information at the department of motor vehicles or the registrar s office she was removed from the roles despite being someone who votes. that type of minor error can turn into a major problem. she s a college professor, she knows the system to go through to figure out a solution but