Stacey Abrams, after narrow election loss, vows to fight for voter rights via CNBCMakeIt
Stacey Abrams catapulted into the national spotlight during a Georgia governor's race riddled with allegations of voter suppression. After a narrow loss to her Republican opponent Brian Kemp, Abrams refused to concede and claimed that democracy had"failed" the state.
Abrams officially lost by 55,000 votes against then-Secretary of State Kemp, who was also the senior state official overseeing election rules. Abram's Fair Fight Action filed the November lawsuit right after the election. It claimed that officials"grossly mismanaged" the election and deprived black and minority voters of fair participation by failing to send out absentee ballots on time, purging voter rolls and taking extreme measures to block voter registrations through the"exact match" policy.
"Voter suppression, it works by convincing people in practice that they don't count," Abrams said on Friday."It is designed to silence those voices, say that there are people that do not count."
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