Brian Kemp is not the legitimate governor of Georgia. (THREAD)

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Brian Kemp is not the legitimate governor of Georgia. (THREAD)

In a democracy, legitimacy comes from being elected in free and fair elections. Brian Kemp was not.

While @BrianKempGA will be Georgia's next governor, he has no claim to democratic legitimacy. 2/14
As Georgia’s chief elections official, @BrianKempGA systematically denied voters across the state the right to vote in last year's election, stacking the deck in his own favor. 3/14

Through outright voter suppression and gross mismanagement of the electoral process, Sec. of State Kemp disenfranchised thousands of voters, disproportionately people of color. 4/14

Kemp unconstitutionally purged the voter rolls of nearly 10% of all voters in 2017, using an absurd application of Georgia law. 5/14

Kemp suspended tens of thousands of new voter registrations, many due to inconsequential typographical mismatches in state databases. 6/14

Georgia elections officials closed 214 polling locations under Kemp’s watch between 2012-2018. That’s 8% of all Georgia precincts, many of which served people of color. 7/14

Elections officials failed to supply enough voting machines for the expected turnout. Thousands of voters were forced to wait in egregiously long lines - an average of 3 hours in the Atlanta area. 8/14

At one polling place, voting machines ran out of batteries because there were no power cords. 9/14

Many voters were denied their right to a provisional ballot. 10/14


Voters trying to vote absentee were also disenfranchised - some voters who submitted applications never received their ballots, some arrived too late, and some were illegally rejected. 11/14

Brian Kemp’s outright voter suppression tactics and his gross mismanagement of the electoral process fundamentally undermined Georgia’s democratic elections.

Kemp disregarded Georgia’s voters at every turn - all he cared about was winning the governorship for himself. 12/14
The above violations of the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, and Georgia law are being challenged in court by @FairFightAction and @CareInActionUSA 13/14


For all these reasons, Brian Kemp’s entire governorship is illegitimate. Every action he takes and every bill he signs will lack the democratic legitimacy of a freely and fairly elected leader. 14/14

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Lying, cheating sack of shit redneck.

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, This was to keep the senate in KGOP control. 53000 voter registrations held up and she lost by

... 54000

[diane in sf]

3. He belongs in prison. We need national laws punishing voter suppression and election fraud

with hard prison time.

[triron]

4. Neither is Trump legitimate POTUS. I think a few R senators in same boat.

[brer cat]

5. K&R

[Scurrilous]

6. K&R