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What's going on. >> reporter: a major dustup in the state of georgia weeks before voters go to the polls to choose their governor. the latest point of contention, allegations georgia's secretary of state brian kemp is using a voter verification law to effectively suppress thousands of african-american voters. kemp is running on the republican republican ticket against democrat stacey abrams. >> now let's go get it done. >> reporter: in the latest twist, a non-profit advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against kemp and his official capacity as secretary of state. this after reports that kemp's o...

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 state's database. and they are being penalized for that. our end goal, our end objective with this lawsuit is making sure there's a level playing field where everyon...

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 state's database and they are being penalized for that. our end goal, our end objective with this lawsuit is making sure there's a level playing field where everyone's voice can be heard in georgia. >> reporter: the kemp campaign calls the claims bogus and points to georg...

Applications, more than two-thirds 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 voter id and registration can be flagged. >> the reality is minority voters are ones with unusual names that are sometimes harder for state officials to capture accurately in the state database. they're being penalized for that. our end goal, end objective with the lawsuit is making sure there's a level playing field where everyone's voice can be heard in georgia. >> reporter: the kemp campaign calls the claims bogus, p...

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 kemp's 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 miss...