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So you can imagine, for people entering the information into the state database or on the county level they are making errors all over the place. and what we find is that people of color have names that are a little bit less typical and thats where the errors are at their highest. brian kemp knows this, the state knows this and they knew it in 2016. he is a repeat offender seeking to race forward with this discriminatory scheme once again. and so were in court now to stop him. >> yeah, and i spo...

Evidence. it has a disproportionate impact on minority communities and those are the very people who the state wants to lock out of the process. so its why we filed this lawsuit. we believe there should be a level playing field where everyone gets to have a voice. >> and, in fact, only 9.83% of those pending for failure to verify applications or submitted by applicants identifying as white. can you explain how exact match works and how it is keeping people from being able to vote? >> so how it w...

Those pending for failure to verify applications or submitted by applicants identifying as white. can you explain how exact match works and how it is keeping people from being able to vote? >> 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 p...

Honestly, to kill voter registration applications. if there is even one single 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, or 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 register...

State brian kemp is using a voter verification law to effectively suppress thousands of african-american voters. kemp is running on the republican ticket against democrat stacey abrams. >> now, lets go get it done. >> reporter: in the latest twist, a nonprofit advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against kemp in his official capacity as secretary of state. this after reports that kemps office placed a hold on more than 50,000 voter applications, more than two-thirds of which were made by african-a...

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. >> brian kemps campaign calls the claims bogus. he says georgia has increased voter rolls. stacy abrams wants him to resign as secretary of state ahead of the election next month. lets talk about this. simone, brian kemp doesnt dispute the racial makeup of these voters registrations in question. he blames it on an organiza...

Democrat stacey abrams. >> now lets go get it done. >> in the latest twist, a nonprofit advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against kemp in his official capacity as secretary of state. this after reports that kemps 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 a voter registration can be flagged. >...

Most typically dmv records, and so with the exact matching, if theres some difference between what is on the registration application and what is in the dmv database down to something as simple as missing hyphen or a small typo, they will deem that registration pending or invalid. >> you wrote an op-ed in "the times" on the myth of the lazy non-voter. listening to reasons for low turnout, among them you wrote lack of a mandated i.d. in some states. out of state students are unable to vote where ...

>> how do you find people that need rescuing? how do people reach out to you and what is the biggest challenge of what you are seeing now with michael? >> so the first part of that question, crowd source rescue is a database we used online and facebook page at cajunnavy.com. this is based from florence and harv harvey. the devastation is mostly by wind. we also experience long-term flooding. we make sure our people are on the ground. we have 1,000 people there right now and we make sure they are...

Use the national voters database. it matters because it makes these first time candidates easier to find, these the persuadable crucial voters that could flip things for democrats on election night in a way they didnt have in 2016. >> what are you keeping your eye on today? whats the big thing youre watching >> so another thing im watching related to democrats is republicans are becoming openly increasingly worried about how much money democrats are raising. they are watching how bernie sanders ...