Voter suppression: Georgia Secretary of State is caught in a lie UPDATE: Video from Rachel Maddow

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On September 9th, the Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp accused the New Georgia Project, which was having great success registering minority voters, of voter fraud. The SoS office served them with an intrusive subpoena that disrupted the last weeks of their voter registration efforts, claiming that county election officials had filed multiple complaints of voter fraud, even though the SoS could only identify 25 fraudulent applications out of 85,000.

As a justification, Kemp claimed that six different county officials contacted him to complain about voter fraud. He insinuated that the complaints were numerous. But the records of the Secretary of State's Office indicate that is a lie.

In his FAQ on his Web site, Kemp claimed that "Each and every complaint regarding The New Georgia Project originated at the county level. At no time did the Investigations Division within the Office of the Secretary of State seek out any information without the specific request of a county."

However, when asked to actually produce the records of these complaints, the SoS Office attempted to hide them, saying that ALL complaints about voter registration fraud received by their Office were exempt from disclosure as part of a pending investigation.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/09/1335494/-Voter-suppression-Georgia-Secretary-of-State-is-caught-in-a-lie