{"id":3171,"date":"2020-12-20T14:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/20\/black-voters-matter-group-sues-georgia-for-purging-200000-voters-ahead-of-2020-election-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:03:41","slug":"black-voters-matter-group-sues-georgia-for-purging-200000-voters-ahead-of-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/20\/black-voters-matter-group-sues-georgia-for-purging-200000-voters-ahead-of-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Voters Matter: Group Sues Georgia for Purging 200,000 Voters Ahead of 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the voter registration deadline for Georgians who want to vote in two Senate runoff elections on January 5, we speak with Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter, about why the state is \u201cground zero\u201d for Republican voter suppression efforts. Black Voters Matter has filed a federal lawsuit alleging Georgia\u2019s current secretary of state improperly removed nearly 200,000 voters from the rolls. Those voters \u201cwere purged illegally\u201d ahead of the 2020 election and almost certainly affected the results, says Albright. \u201cAt the end of the day, this election \u2026 should not have even been close.\u201d We\u2019re also joined by Emory University professor Carol Anderson, who argues President Trump\u2019s attacks on the legitimacy of the presidential election reflect the entire party\u2019s attitude toward voting. \u201cHe\u2019s not an aberration,\u201d she says. \u201cHe is the culmination of decades of the Republicans hollering voting fraud, of creating the theater of voter fraud as a means to justify massive voter suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

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