Georgia: Why was the New Georgia Project subpoenaed?

Republican officials in Georgia, a state that will host some very competitive statewide elections this year, haven’t exactly been champions of voting rights recently. One GOP state senator, for example, recently complained about Sunday voting in an Atlanta shopping mall “dominated by African American shoppers.” Around the same time, we learned about remarks Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) made in July, when he expressed concern about Democrats “registering all these minority voters that are out there.” It’s against this backdrop that the Republican Secretary of State – Georgia’s top elections official – also subpoenaed the New Georgia Project, which happens to be the driving force behind the state’s largest voter-registration campaign. As Joan Walsh noted, the recently launched probe is so broad, it could tie up the voter-registration organization “indefinitely.”

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Levy talked to state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D-Ga.), who’s helped spearhead the voter-registration campaign.

Abrams is quick to point out, however, that her group is required by law to turn in every application they collect, even if it contains errors. “If the form says Mickey Mouse registered in Anaheim, California, we have to turn that form in,” Abrams said in an interview with Newsweek last week.

That’s why she’s calling the investigation a witch hunt. “There was no way to win. And that’s what this really resembles,” Abrams said. “We were being told if you follow the law, you were wrong. And if you didn’t follow the law, you’re wrong.”

The report added that Georgia Dems suspect “a few inevitable errors are being used as a pretext to attack an organization that is registering large numbers of Democratic voters.”

Full Article: Why was the New Georgia Project subpoenaed? | MSNBC.

Georgia: Why was the New Georgia Project subpoenaed? | MSNBC

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