Two days before polling day, the office of the Georgian Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, who is participating in a race for the governor's candidacy, announced Sunday the opening of an investigation into the party Democrat, for "unsuccessful attempt to hack the voter registration system". , "a Democratic movement slammed as a political coup.

"After an unsuccessful attempt to hack the voter registration system, the state secretary's office opened an investigation into the Democratic Party of Georgia in the evening of Saturday, November 3, 2018". Kemp's office said in a statement. "Federal partners, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were immediately alerted."

More details about the nature of the alleged hacking attempt or its connection with the Democratic Party have not been provided.

Georgia's spokeswoman, Candice Broce, declined to comment on the investigation, but confirmed that the state's Democratic Party was under investigation for "possible cybercrime".

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Rebecca DeHart, executive director of the Georgia Democratic Party, said Kemp's "purported investigation" was "yet another abuse of power by an unethical state secretary."

"To be very clear, Brian Kemp's crude assertions are 100% false," DeHart said in a statement shared on social networks. "This Kemp political coup, just days before the elections, is another example of why we can not trust him."

Kemp is in a close race against Stacey Abrams, a former minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives. The average RealClearPolitics polls in the race indicates that Kemp is ahead of about a percentage point, which is well within the margin of error.

CNN's Jake Tapper informed Abrams of Kemp's cybercrime allegation when he appeared on Sunday in "The State of the Union."

"I did not hear anything about it and my reaction would be that it was a desperate attempt on the part of my opponent to distract people from the fact that two different federal judges had found him abandoned in its functions, "said Abrams. "He is desperate to divert the conversation from his failures, from his refusal to honor his commitments and from the fact that he is part of a national system of voter suppression that will not work during this year. election."

Abrams, an African-American woman, accused Kemp of intentionally purging voters to target minorities.

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On Friday, Judge Eleanor Ross of the US District Court granted an emergency injunction that will allow 3,141 people to vote in Tuesday's election. These people had been removed from the voters list because of a law on "exact matching", which does not allow any misstatement or error on voter registration.

In her decision, Ms. Ross stated that she was "gravely concerned" by "the differential treatment of a minority group".

Democrats called on Kemp to resign from his post as secretary of state, accusing him of conflict of interest in overseeing the office to oversee the election of the president. State while he presented himself as a candidate.

Allegations of repression of voters and the possibility that Abrams became the first African-American woman to hold governorship in the United States drew the country's attention to this race.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence went to the state to campaign for the Kemp, while former President Barack Obama as well as celebrities Oprah Winfrey and Will Ferrell were among those had campaigned for Abrams.

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