paper work if its organizers and volunteers. kemp s office says the paper work is messed up and these voters need to verify their status. abrams said they are all legitimate voters and need the right to access the ballot. this is a tight race. we re 23 days out. it s a dead heat now. 53,000 people would be important in this race. what do you see happening? we re putting up the polling. it literally is a dead heat. they are both at 46%. every single poll shows the race within the margin of error which shows you how close it is. in a republican leaning state it might be changing. the important thing the o note f, if you think you re on the list,
26 days from the crucial elections as the battle over voter registration is becoming one of the biggest issues in the race for gaeorggeorgia s govern. more than 53,000 voter registration applications have been on hold. he s also the republican nominee for governor running against democratic nominee stacy abrams. this morning abrams said she is very concerned. we got 53,000 georgians have their registration in pinending status. provisional ballots are not processed. we re worried that 53,000 people, 70% of whom is african-american will be disenfranchised in this election. 70% of whom are african-american. kemp denies this accusation. they conduct regular list maintenance to ensure voter integrity. that s their wording, as required by federal and state
said it was passed in the effort of voter integrity to make sure people who are voting are who they said they were. democrats, including stacy ab m abra abrams, worry it would be used as a tool to suppress the vote. that s what her campaign said this was a malicious tactic by bryan kemp s office to suppress the vote. he said he s trying to follow the letter of the law. kemp s office is pointing the finger at abrams and the new georgia project which she founded saying 40% of the pending applications were submitted by the new georgia project in 2014. even if that s the case, what does that mean? this is a long running feud between bryan kemp and stacy abrams long before they ran for georgia governor. kemp s office has long been upset the new georgia project didn t use an online tool they made available. they have accused them of shoddy