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- Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State and the Republican nominee for governor, said he is worried about his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams’ efforts to increase voter turnout ahead of the November 6 midterm election.
- Kemp is in the middle of a heated gubernatorial race in Georgia where he has caught some flak for overseeing a purge of voter rolls in his state, which targeted some 107,000 voters who were removed from the rolls because they had not voted in previous elections.
- Civil-rights groups have sued him for withholding 53,000 new voter registrations because of minor errors like missing hyphens.
- The Georgia gubernatorial race is one of the most closely watched contests in the US ahead of Election Day. If Abrams wins, she will become the first African-American female governor in America.
Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state and the Republican nominee in the state’s governor’s race, admitted that he is concerned about Democratic efforts to ramp up voter turnout ahead of the midterm elections.
Kemp’s remarks were captured on an audio recording taken at a campaign fundraiser on Friday in Atlanta, Rolling Stone magazine reported on Tuesday.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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