campaign there have been these repeated allegations of voter suppression. brian kemp in in his capacity of secretary of state. we ever heard the litigation. as the news comes out, we re also learning one of the organizations involved in litigation with brian kemp is claiming that the online voter registration database that updates the electronic polling lists, they re saying that that is system is open to manipulation. anderson, you see the pr machines on both sides spinning, trying to use this as an opportunity to appeal to their already polarized bases. but at the end of the day there is a question about the vulnerability of georgia s voting registration system. has mr. kemp made any comment directly about this? reporter: no, he hasn t. he didn t address it when he was on stage with president trump earlier today. like i said, you have to really separate the communications we re getting from his secretary of state office as opposed to his campaign. that campaign being more willing
to be aggressive in their rhetoric towards stacy abrams and the radical democrats as they call them, but we have not heard kemp address this situation directly himself. though his secretary of state office tells me they will be meeting with the fbi tomorrow to see how the investigation proceeds. kelly hartung, appreciate it. back with our political team. it s kind of a complex story, hard to figure out. david, how do you see it? look, this has been a controversy ongoing, the fact that the candidate for governor is also administering the system provision status of 50,000 or so voters 70% of whom are african-american. so the question comes up, how does he not recuse himself from overseeing an election in which he has such a stake, and by
jump to the conclusion or at least to worry that some of what s happening here is that the republican party s candidate for governor is also the republican secretary of state in kansas, whose office is responsible for administering the election. kris kobach is competing at the top of the ticket candidate. they have refused to talk to us about anything related to their electoral processes and decisions they have been making here and they have been referring us to the secretary of state s office as if it s the secretary of state s office directly making these decisions. and the secretary of state office tells us this is happening at the county level, has nothing to do with us. is that just us getting the run-around? do you have clarity in terms of who s making the decisions here? it should actually be the ford county clerk who is making these decisions. under state law in kansas, the county clerk has a whole lot of latitude, a whole lot of leeway to decide what happens.
electoral processes and decisions here, and they ve been referring us to the secretary of state s office as if it s the secretary of state s office making these decisions. and the secretary of state office tells us this is happening at the county level, has nothing to do with us. do you have clarity in terms of who s making the decisions here? it should actually be the county clerk making these decisions. it has a whole lot of latitude and leeway to decide what happens. it would not be true the secretary of state should be directing this. we have no reason to believe he is. at the same time, though, it s very clear that during his tenure as secretary of state here in kansas kris kobach as created a culture statewide it is acceptable to find a way to discourage voters. it is a culture he has created over the last eight years.
used to be just a policy. it was a secretary of state office s that 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 s office had this policy of this exact match system. so they went into 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 exact match policy. and the bill that we re now sitting here talking about today that has become law. this has been a calculated effort on the part of brian kemp. this is one example of what republicans are doing across the country to sup