BREAKING: Georgia Voters File for 'Emergency' Restraining Order Against Brian Kemp

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Voters have filed a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on election night that will determine whether he or Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams will become the Peach State’s next governor.

The plaintiffs, registered Georgia voters, have been identified as LaTosha Brown, Jennifer N. Ide, Katharine Wilkinson, Candace Fowler and Chalis Montgomery. They are being represented by the “nonpartisan nonprofit” Protect Democracy, former U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore and former Department of Justice Voting Rights Section attorney Bryan L. Sells.

The plaintiffs seek to “bar” Kemp from “presiding over his own election.” That includes barring him from certifying results or presiding over “any runoff or recount procedures that would normally be exercised by the Secretary of State’s Office or the Board of Elections, on which he also sits.”

Kemp has previously dismissed voter suppression as a “farce,” and has also said he wouldn’t recuse himself if the race between him and Abrams ended in a recount. He has also faced multiple claims of voter suppression that disproportionately affects immigrants, black voters, and people filing absentee ballots.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/breaking-georgia-voters-file-for-emergency-restraining-order-against-brian-kemp/ar-BBPqfXv?li=AA5a8k

[SummerSnow]

1. Its like giving a murderer on trial access to the evidence against him. Stacking the deck I call it

[hedda_foil]

6. Not a good metaphor. The defendant DOES get access to the case against him/her.

[SummerSnow]

10. True, but not access to tamper with it, like Kemp

[hedda_foil]

19. Can't argue with you there. 😰

[jmowreader]

9. That's called discovery, and it's a Good Thing

What Kemp is doing is like giving a bank robber the combination to the vault.

[onetexan]

15. Fox watching the hen house is a better analogy

[libdem4life]

2. Why did they wait so long? It's been obvious the whole time. SMH. n/t

[sheshe2]

3. Been on top of it for a long time.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211273554

[libdem4life]

4. Been watching, but haven't seen results...just reporting of his glaring conflict of interest.

Fingers crossed.

[sheshe2]

5. Mine too.

A friend just texted me to say she was praying to the goddesses...so am I.

[aikoaiko]

7. Its very very early, but Kemp has a big lead with initial returns from rural precincts

The good news is that as each percentage of precincts reports, Stacey ticks up a bit.

As we went from 4% to 10% reporting Stacey increased from 30% to 35%. She just needs to improve 15% more to clinch it.

eta: Now at 13%, she's at 36.7%. Its going to be a long night.

[sheshe2]

12. NAACP

Just won a lawsuit. Polls near Moorehouse and Spellman will stay open until 10pm!

[aikoaiko]

13. Right, the urban centers (Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah) only have small percents reporting.

But they need to come out big!

eta: And its getting closer as they come in.

Brian Kemp
Republican
858,657 55.0%
Stacey Abrams
Democrat
691,078 44.3

[Amaryllis]

11. You're right. I know people in GA who've been very active in election integrity. THis is not the

first suit against Kemp.

[Honeycombe8]

8. It's ridiculous that state law allows the Sec of State to preside over his own election.

Talk about a conflict of interest.

[fierywoman]

14. And the 600,000+ he removed from registration rolls? God damn him may he rot.

[YOHABLO]

17. Seems to me, that with no paper trail on votes it would be hard to recount.

[meow2u3]

18. This is more like the pitcher also being the home plate umpire