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I've got a question for you. what is the bigger threat to our democracy in the midterm elections? is it voter fraud or is it voter suppression? so president trump would have you believe falsely that it's voter fraud. while the courts are looking at voter suppression. there's a federal hearing tomorrow in georgia over rejected absentee ballots. rejected because they fail to meet the state exact match standard that says a person's information needs to match other public records. just one letter or character off is enough. but activists say the rejections disproportionately affect minority voters...

Voter suppression. there's a federal hearing tomorrow in georgia over rejected absentee ballots. rejected because they fail to meet the state exact match standard that says a person's information needs to match other public records. just one letter or character off is enough. but activists say the rejections disproportionately affect minority verts. the exact match standard affects around 53,000 people statewide in georgia, and nearly 70% of them are african-americans. but these sorts of laws restricting voting can be found throughout the country. according to the brennan institute -- the bren...

Are red hot, as you mentioned, early voting gets under way. in kefl's capacity as secretary of state of the state of georgia, his job is oversight of elections. now, stacey abrams is calling for him to step down from the position. the problem here being that more than 53,000 voter registration applications, they are on hold. the problem, as the state sees it, is that they have failed to clear the state's exact match standard. this is a policy that has been passed under brian kemp. and to add to the scope of this problem, 7 in 10 of those 53,000 voter applications that are on hold, those belong...

>> lots to watch. you'll be back tomorrow with another race? >> yeah. we have a couple coming this week and till election day. >> thank you. ncht we want to head south to georgia where allegations are heating up over voter suppression. you had republican senator who was on georgia tech campus. he was campaigning for bryan kemp. that's the republican candidate. a student came up to senator perdue and asked about the new reports that 53,000 voter applications on hold. nearly 70% of which are african-american because they failed to meet the state's exact match standard. you have been watching s...

Voter registration applications on hold because they fail to clear the state's exact match standard. the associated press found nearly 70% of the applications belong to african americans. cnn correspondent jessica dean has the story. >> reporter: weeks before voters go to the polls to choose governor, the latest point of contention, allegations georgia secretary of state brian kemp is using voter verification law to suppress thousands of african-american voters. kemp is running on the republican ticket against democrat stacey abrams. >> now let's go get it done. >> reporter: in the latest twis...