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Hot in the race for georgias top job. stacy abrahms is accusing her opponent of voter suppression. >> thats a smoke screen hiding her radical views. >> reporter: as georgia secretary of state, kemp is in charge of voter registration for statewide elections including his own. abrahms is calling for him to resign and being sued by a co coalition of civil rights groups. more than 50,000 voter registration applications are on hold. the problem, they didnt meet the standard of a voter verification la...

Identity establishes on a blockchain which is immutable database through time. mark: all right, hold on. what is a blockchain? >> a block campaign is an immutable database distributed through the internet. rather than have all your data in some big data warehouse in the cloud, as they call it, all the data is distributed across all the nodes of the network, so that any hacker who hax one computer can gain nothing except whats in that particular computer, because the information is distributed ac...

Identity establishes on a blockchain which is immutable database through time. mark: all right, hold on. what is a blockchain? >> a block campaign is an immutable database distributed through the internet. rather than have all your data in some big data warehouse in the cloud, as they call it, all the data is distributed across all the nodes of the network, so that any hacker who hax one computer can gain nothing except whats in that particular computer, because the information is distributed ac...

Capture accurately in the states database. and they are being penalized for that. our end goal, our end objective with this lawsuit is making sure that theres a level playing field where everyones voice can be heard in georgia. >> reporter: the kemp campaign calls the claims bogus and points to georgia increasing its voter rolls under his leadership. quote, under my tenure as secretary of state, georgia has shattered records for voter registration and turnout across all demographic groups. despi...

Rd period to abbreviate road instead of rd, which is the way its abbreviated without the period in some other database, then forget it. youre not registered. your voter registration will be held until these irregularities can be sorted, if they can be sorted. brian kemp invented that. he got sued over that effort, in part because that unique program he designed and pursued out of his office seems to have had what everybody understood to be its desired effect in the initial iteration of that prog...

>> so how it works is somebody trying to register completes a form that gets then entered into a database by a county registrar. and if there is one letter, one hyphen, one accent mark, one extra space that deviates from information in the states database, that individual is penalized. and their form is not processed in the routine way that other peoples forms get processed. it is a process that is riddled with error. so you can imagine, for people entering the information into the state databas...

Voters are often the ones with unusual names that are sometimes harder for state officials to capture accurately in the states database. and they are being penalized for that. our end goal, our end objective with this lawsuit is making sure theres a level playing field where everyones voice can be heard in georgia. >> reporter: the kemp campaign calls the claims bogus and points to georgia increasing its voter rolls under his leadership. "under my tenure as secretary of state, georgia has shatte...

Office placed a hold on more than 50,000 voter applications. more than two-thirds of which were made by african-americans for not meeting an exact match requirement. this means anything as minor as a typo or missing hyphen between a valid i.d. and voter registration can be flagged. >> the reality is that minority voters are often the ones with unusual names that are sometimes harder for state officials to capture accurately in the states database. and they are being penalized for that. our end g...

Twist, a nonprofit. for not meeting an exact match requirement. this means anything as minor as a typo or missing hyphen between a valid i.d. and voter registration can be flagged. >> the reality is minority voters are often the ones with unusual names that are sometimes harder for state officials to capture accurately in the states database and they are being penalized for that. our end goal, our end objective with this lawsuit is making sure theres a level playing field where everyones voice c...

Digital character difference and any other record the state has on file for you. so if there is an extra space added by the registrar when she types in your name or address, literally an extra space, for you live on something something road and the registrar types in rd period to abbreviate road instead of rd, which is the way its abbreviated without the period in some other database, then forget it. youre not registered. your voter registration will be held until these irregularities can be sor...