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Stacey Abrams, who marked history earlier this year as the first African-American woman and first woman to be named governor of Georgia, appeared Tuesday in The View to discuss her concerns about the possibility of losing the right to vote voters in the state.
"The best way to win is to overwhelm the system with our democracy," Abrams said Tuesday morning adding his opponent: "I'm not questioning his heart, I'm questioning the results. disproportionately eliminated color voters, arrested color voters, arrested color voters, and regardless of intent, the result is racial bias was injected into our system, undermining trust. "
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His appearance in the show, just seven days before the end of one of this year's most controversial races, has highlighted the persistent concern of some voters that the opponent from Abrams, Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Republican, should recuse himself from any potential recount. He vehemently denied allegations of voter repression during a governors debate, calling it a "joke".
Kemp, a Trump-backed candidate, has pushed new, stricter voter identification laws and has been criticized for the more than 53,000 applications that have been put on hold due to restrictive laws of the United States. State of "exact match" – regulations requiring voters to be on the lists. exactly match their piece of identity issued by the government.
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A coalition of civil rights groups has filed a lawsuit against the law, which they say would deprive minority voters of their rights.
According to the complainants, approximately 80% of the recently blocked applications come from Blacks, Latinos and South Americans. The Associated Press first reported blocked applications.
"Unfortunately, my opponent has known for years," Abrams told The View. "We brought an action in 2016 and a federal judge found that he illegally canceled 43,000 voters using exactly the same system."
"This undermines public confidence in our democracy. He is both the player and the referee, "said Abrams.
For Abrams, who told supporters on his first victory speech in May that "work is out of breath", there is a direct link between empowering communities of color and his own quest for the manor house. governor. The main objective of the Abrams campaign was to increase voter turnout for colored voters.
She is one of six children whose parents moved from Mississippi to Georgia as a child.
"I grew up as the second largest of six children in a family where we struggled to stay above the poverty line, but we never had a hard time knowing what was right or wrong. believe in our possibilities … Work is hard in my bones, "she said. .
Abrams, 44, is a graduate of Yale Law School and has written love novels under the pseudonym Selena Montgomery.
She climbed the political ladder in Georgia to become the minority leader at Georgia House and led the New Georgia project, with the goal of registering voters likely to make a difference in the run-up to the race.
Abrams has received the support of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, but still has to defeat a deep red state that has not elected a Democrat as governor for two decades.
Abrams partners with some of Sanders' liberal public education policies, even though it has not fully embraced the position that many progressives have this year. In her key winning speech, she told her supporters that she wanted to encourage more investment in businesses, which has contributed to the economic boom of cities like Atlanta in recent years.
She also criticized Republicans in the state for blocking Medicare's expansion.
"Republican leaders have let down these people, being too mean and too cheap to develop Medicaid, putting our rural hospitals at risk for political ends, they have put millions of Georgian families at risk. that, "said Abrams in a statement his first victory speech.
ABC's partner, FiveThirtyEight, expects Kemp to win the race with a lead of just under a point.
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