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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1368428
Kemp has no sense of shame at all.
Those who are ashamed of Kemp are not in his reference group.
Fortunately, Kemp can be overruled (by people not in his reference group).
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Kemp might be ashamed of some things, but racism is a value he believes in.
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Actually, racism is something that Kemp and his buddies celebrate and revel in. They cannot get enough of it!
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Well, the way this law is written, Republicans will be in a position to appoint an election commission. If this law holds, I expect them to take over county elections boards in Blue counties and use their power to keep as many minority voters from voting by doing heavy purges, exact name matches and other tactics, like consolidating polling places so people are confused about which precinct votes where, then throwing out as many votes as possible because surprise those people voted in the wrong precinct (but the right polling location). If that doesn’t work, they’ll just refuse to certify the election results. Kemp will magically stay in office.
Here’s the thing about a name match- it depends on PEOPLE transcribing names down to the accent marks. That will certainly lead to problems. If Republicans are really hell-bent on keeping Kemp in office, they will stall new registrations, throw them out for no good reason and use questionable databases to purge people from the rolls.
Am I being paranoid? Short answer is yes. Longer answer is there’s good reason to be so. Republicans did all this because they’re afraid of losing power, especially to a diverse group of people. They might accept losing power to White Male Dems, but to Black and Brown Women, oh hell no!
The courts will be hard-pressed to accept this law as written. Best case scenario is the whole thing gets tossed. I expect that some of it will be allowed to move forward. We need to remember that Georgia is the first state to enact this rubbish, and won’t be the last.
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There are those that believe Sherman an didn’t go far enough…
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Thanks Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for this history.
It would be interesting to know how – or if – the culture of brazen political lying has evolved since the Civil War. It seems that all Republicans do nothing else but lie these days. And this brazen political lying – as with Kemp defending the new law whose direct intent is disfranchisement of Blacks – is as nefarious as you can get in a democracy: it is manifestly designed to undermine democracy, while brazenly sold under the pretense of doing the opposite.
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