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Governor. wouldn't it make sense for someone in that position to recuse themselves? but alas -- >> trymaine lee is live in atlanta and has been looking at this. trymaine, just days ago a federal judge ruled that the state's exact match rule was, quote, a severe burden for voters. are people who are going to vote aware of what these voter suppression tactics are all about, and are they able to overcome them? >> reporter: ali, i tell you what, folks across the city are very much aware of the judge's ruling and it's fired some folks up. anyone who was confused about their status, they now have a ...

Naturalized u.s. citizens if gaflt whose voters registrations were placed on hold must be allowed to vote on tuesday. ryan kemp was trying to prevent them from voting, citing a state law that critics say is designed to oppress minority voting. that's the subject of a cnn special report tonight. our senior national correspondent is joining us now with a preview. what does this federal ruling mean for these georgia voters? >> reporter: well, in short, it means that those 3,000-plus votes, wolf, are going to matter. now, originally, they were held under georgia's exact match rule. but because the...

>> mr. kemp, you're out of time. >> the right to vote is a right. i grew up in a family that fought for the right to vote before they were old enough to do so. my father was arrested helping people register. so i take the right to vote very seriously. i only believe that those who have the legal eligibility to vote should cast a ballot. but i also understand that under secretary kemp, more people have lost the right to vote in the state of georgia. they've been purged. they've been suppressed. >> symone, problem for kemp? how bad is it? >> i think it is a problem for brian kemp, and let me tel...

Could we please get over this? they lost. okay. so listen, let's talk about, this is a very important story we want to talk about. voting rights, a big deal in this race. the issue is kemp's enforcement of a rule known as the exact match rule. now, this rule requires names on voting rolls to precisely match names in other state records, okay? so according to the associated press, of the 53,000 voters put on hold through this process, 70% of them, african-americans. here's what kemp said when he was asked if he is suppressing the vote, and then abrams' responds. watch this. >> we have more vote...

State of georgia. they've been purged. they've been suppressed. >> symone, problem for kemp? how bad is it? >> i think it is a problem for brian kemp, and let me tell you why. because this exact match rule, this law used to be a policy of the secretary of state's office. brian kemp said there on the debate stage that he was -- that the new georgia project sued and they lost. that's not true. they sued, and they came to an agreement with the secretary of state's office. and then what happened, the legislature ended up passing the exact policy that the secretary of state made up and codified it ...