GOP Candidate In Georgia Blocks 53,000 Voter Registrations

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I miss the time when I would be surprised.

Efforts to silence black and Hispanic voters will surely continue to be a Republican priority this November and beyond. Fourteen states instituted new restrictions in time for the 2016 election, and three more — Arkansas, Missouri and North Dakota — have since put voter-ID laws in place. The GOP will continue to do this as long as it stays beholden to policy that does the work of white supremacy, thereby repelling African American audiences in particular. Knowing that they can’t put up a platform that would win us over, people like Malone keep attempting to violate what should be American electoral norms. And why not? Without any functional legislation to protect voting rights, we are left to hope that we, too, have a Tommy Coleman, Michele Graham and J. Scott Peavy to maintain equal access to the ballot box.

... So we may wind up in Georgia with the same situation we’ve seen over and over again. Republicans gain power, then enact a series of policies and laws to make it harder for Democrats to vote. Democrats undertake a herculean effort to register and turn out voters, but when subsequent elections are extremely close, it turns out that the Republican vote suppression efforts were enough to make the difference.

That could well happen in Georgia, where we could see the race decided by a few thousand votes and tens of thousands of legitimate voters kept from the polls. Abrams has based her strategy on registering and turning out as many Democratic voters as possible, including those who haven’t participated before. Kemp’s strategy involves being the most troglodytic Trumpite he can be — and using the powers of his office to put just enough of a thumb on the scale to ensure his victory.

If Kemp wins, Republicans around the country will celebrate it as further proof of the efficacy of their vote suppression strategy. And knowing that the Supreme Court is likely to endorse whatever new suppression tactics they come up with, they’ll move even more aggressively to restrict access to the ballot.

Hey, consider me stupid but really confused.

First news article says GOP is aiming to. Second article states they failed. Third article states again they’re aiming to.

It reads as contradictory. Are these for different counties?

The first and third articles refer to the statewide voter suppression by corrupt GOP governor candidate Brian Kemp.

Kemp, who is currently Georgia's secretary of state which puts him in charge of state elections, is trying to suppress the votes of blacks by requiring that their voter IDs be a 100% precise match with either their driver's licenses or socials. For example, if someone is missing a middle initial, that voter gets disqualified.

The second article is about a separate effort by the GOP to deprive rural voters in a predominantly black county of polling places in order to make it much more difficult for people in that county to vote. It is that effort that was defeated.

Kemp's effort to suppress 53,000 votes statewide is still ongoing and also needs to be defeated.