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February 28, 2020

Emails Show Georgia's Republican Governor Mocked Reports of Voter Suppression
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In Georgia, newly surfaced emails show then-Secretary of State Brian
Kemp mocked reports of voter suppression during the 2018 gubernatorial
race. Kemp is a Republican who went on to narrowly win the election over
Stacey Abrams, who was vying to become the first black woman governor in
the United States. The race was marred by widespread allegations of
voter suppression carried out by Kemp. In one email, Kemp used a
laughing-from-crying emoji to reply to a press release by a lawmaker who
warned that Georgia had canceled a half-million voter registrations in a
purge that systematically targeted Democrats. In another email, Kemp
praised campaign officials for blunting an article on voter suppression
in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, writing, "Good work, this story is
so complex folks will not make it all the way through it."


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