Page 16 - Voting Rolls News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Suppressing -- >> by the way, last time i counted, there were roughly 70 pieces of legislation in something like 34 states introduced by republicans to suppress the vote. >> so, mark, georgia is in the news, but there are efforts all over this country to remove people from voting rolls, disqualifying them. what's your take on this? >> well, it's not just georgia. vice president biden said there's 70 pieces of legislation in various states. we're focusing on florida and georgia this race and a lot of the racial overtones in both those races, interesting races, both have african-american nominee...

Judge ruled that state officials must stop that practice and actually give absentee voters a chance to correct those errors. it is just the latest in what's become an onslaught of the allegations and evidence of voter suppression in georgia. as we reported more than 50,000 voter registration applications are on hold by the secretary of state's office. a majority of them from african-american applicants. more than 100,000 voters have also been purged from the voting rolls statewide because they have not voted in recent elections. since 2012 brian kemp has overseen the mass cancellation of 1.4 m...

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...

Opposes the confederacy and supports the first amendment is extreme. i think she engaged in a first amendment action. the symbol is no longer on the georgia flag anyway. i mean, look, i don't think this is going to be relevant to most people. and i don't know -- i don't know what kemp's position on the whole thing is, but at the end of the day, she has a first amendment right to engage in any kind of free speech she wants. and i just -- i don't think most people are going to take issue with somebody who happens to oppose the confederacy. they lost. the union won, and that's where -- >> and get...

Kamala harris, cory booker that would be your set-up for the presidential in 2020. here in georgia and florida you've got a couple of basically progressive democrats, african american, stacy abrams in georgia, andrew gillum in florida who had denied that he's a socialist running against two candidates who have aligned themselves with donald trump. so it's a very conservative candidate running against the progressive. the other thing that i should point out, stacy abrams, for example, in georgia has spent 5 years enlisting black minority women, younger voters, getting them on voting rolls, a te...