people in a proper fashion and we did not have this flawed exact match system, that he knew was flawed because we sued him in 2016, and a federal judge forced him to restore 43,000 registrations. this say failed system designed to scare people out of voting and make it harder for those willing to push through, make it harder for them to vote. leader abrams, he argues he s doing his job, the exact match law was passed by the state legislature last april, sitting secretary of state. he says why should i step down just because i m following the existing law in the books? i think the call for his resignation is larger than simply this last and latest example of incompetence. this is a larger pattern of behavior, someone who sued a woman for helping her blind mother cast a ballot, who close mord than 200 polling places across the state and fails to take responsibility for his actions. when something goes well, he takes credit. when there s a problem, he
disproportionate effect on people of color and women and you do it anyway, that erods trust in the system and that is problematic. 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., name and how they appear in the voter rolls. exactly. college professor in the a.p. story, because the hyphen was left out by either someone typing in the information at the department of motor vehicles or in the registrar s office she was removed from the rolls despite someone who consistently votes. she knows the systems to go through to figure out the solution because she s a professor but what about those voters in the tiny communities who are stepping up and saying this is my turn to cast my
also fails to take responsibility for his actions. when something goes well, he takes credit and when there s a problem he blames everyone else, voting shouldn t 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 because 53,000 people have been told you may not be able to vote, it s up to you to prove it. are you suggesting you haven t said it 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 we have known since 2016 that the exact match system has a disproportionate affect on people of color and women. he was sued for this problem. he was forced to restore 33,000 illegally canceled registrations and he turned around and got the
home to the elections in the united states and georgia where stacy abrams is running in georgia. they ve put a whole bunch of voters on hold because of something called an exact match system. if there s any glitch between your name or a missing hyphen, your vote can be held. let s listen to what stacy abrams had to say about this. we know this is a flawed system that has a disproportionate effect on people of color but it also has the ability to erode trust in our system. i know that secretary kemp is well aware of this and it s part of a pattern of behavior where he tries to tilt the playing field. we ve put together the largest voter protection effort in the state s history and we have national organizations that are also paying attention and i think we can make this work.
how do you see what s happening? do you think the gop is making it harder for folks to vote. yes, don, i do. this is a calculated effort. if we want to talk about georgia for a minute, what brian kemp has done, this is absolutely of his doing. i m going to tell you why. this exact law used to just be a policy of the secretary of state s office. nobody even knew what was happening. the only reason anybody found out is because the new georgia project that has gone around registering folks to vote pulling in unlikely and new voters found 50,000 people they registered to vote one year were not on the voter rolls and that s when they found out the secretary of state had this exact match system. they have sued the secretary of state s office in georgia a number of times but they came to a consensus on this particular piece of his policy. while that consensus came about, the secretary of state s office reached out to the legislature and the legislature ended up introducing a bill on this ex