{"id":382247,"date":"2018-10-24T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/greg-palast-sues-georgias-brian-kemp-for-purging-340000-from-voter-rolls\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:33:52","slug":"greg-palast-sues-georgias-brian-kemp-for-purging-340000-from-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/greg-palast-sues-georgias-brian-kemp-for-purging-340000-from-voter-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Palast Sues Georgia\u2019s Brian Kemp for Purging 340,000 From Voter Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new investigation has found Georgia secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp has overseen the removal of more than 340,000 current Georgia residents from voting rolls. We speak with Greg Palast, a journalist who has been investigating Brian Kemp and voter suppression in Georgia. He has joined a lawsuit against Kemp over the purge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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AMY<\/span> <\/span>GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>This is <\/span>Democracy Now! <\/span>I\u2019m Amy Goodman, with Juan Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n

JUAN<\/span> <\/span>GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong> <\/span>As we continue to look at voter suppression in Georgia, a new <\/span>investigation<\/a> <\/span>has found that the Georgia secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp has overseen the removal of more than 340,000 current Georgia residents from voting rolls. In a moment, we will be joined by journalist Greg Palast. But first, I want to turn to part of a new video he produced about the voter purge in Georgia.<\/p>\n

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GREG<\/span> <\/span>PALAST<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>How did Kemp wipe out the registrations of 550,000 voters? He used the postcard trick. Kemp sent out millions of these cards, requiring voters to confirm their addresses. Problem? They look like junk mail. Eight out of 10 voters who get them throw them away. Throw away the card, and Kemp can throw you off the rolls. The trick? Not everyone gets a postcard. Mostly, they go to neighborhoods like this.<\/p>\n

STACEY<\/span> <\/span>HOPKINS<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>This is my neighborhood. And this is where I almost got purged.<\/p>\n

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GREG<\/span> <\/span>PALAST<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>Stacey Hopkins is a community organizer.<\/p>\n

STACEY<\/span> <\/span>HOPKINS<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>Give me a hug. Give me a hug, baby.<\/p>\n

This is also a community that\u2019s rapidly changing. It impacts us as a voting community. With all these empty houses, our vote is being lost. Our political power is being lost.<\/p>\n

GREG<\/span> <\/span>PALAST<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>When Kemp sent her a postcard, he picked the wrong target.<\/p>\n

STACEY<\/span> <\/span>HOPKINS<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>I look at these mailers that are telling me and two of my children that if we did not fill out these forms and return them, we were going to be moved to the…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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A new investigation has found Georgia secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp has overseen the removal of more than 340,000 current Georgia residents from voting rolls. We speak with Greg Palast, a journalist who has been investigating Brian Kemp and voter suppression in Georgia. He has joined a lawsuit against Kemp over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}