In addition to this from MacArthur's post above:
In the case of the 2018 gubernatorial election there's plenty of evidence, and the state has been successfully sued over the voter suppression tactics that cost Abrams the governorship. Hundreds of thousands of people were simply eliminated from the set of registered voters by Kemp, who I will remind you, ran his own election. He also systematically closed down hundreds of polling places in Abrams-heavy areas. One of the counties was ruled to have violated the Civil Rights Act.
I would add that Kemp also has abused his authority numerous times to threaten his political opponents with law enforcement:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/politics/stacey-abrams-investigation-witch-hunt-cnntv/index.html
Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Monday her Republican opponent, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was abusing his power by investigating the Georgia Democratic Party over what his office describes as an attempt to hack the state’s voter registration system.
Georgia Democrats have vehemently denied the claim. A series of email chains obtained by CNN late Sunday indicate that, rather than taking part in any alleged “hack,” the Georgia Democrats had simply passed along information about security concerns from a voter to a private cybersecurity firm, which in turn shared the issue with Kemp’s office.
This is pretty much like Missouri's governor threatening people over clicking View Source in their browser. Kemp did this because just like Brian Kemp investigating & having Democratic school board election winners arrested for the crime of winning an election, he sought to use law enforcement to try and hurt Abrams' in the 2018 election. Not to mention the Georgia case of the server containing election-related data being irreversibly wiped after a lawsuit was filed regarding gross data security violations reported by security analysts.
I'm not going to say I think Abrams "truly" won, because I don't think that she did, but I also won't say that Kemp & the GOP's voter suppression and other shady methods didn't have a negative effect on the election, either.
Georgia Republicans and people like Brian Kemp represent the worst of politics, and they are exactly the kinds of people Democrats are referring to when they say "New Jim Crow." These shady and corrupt tactics are just that, and it's disgusting that America has elections that are run this way. The fact that Kemp could do all of this and not be indicted is a testament to normalized corruption has become and how our many states have too much control over how elections are run.
As recently as late last year, the joke on discord was that "Kempreich" would steal GA for Trump.
