Brian Kemp, the highly controversial Georgia Secretary of State who is currently blocking 53,000 voter registrations – 70 percent of which are for Black voters – was caught promoting a revealing instructional video.
Wednesday night Anjali Enjeti, a writer for The Nation, The Atlantic, and several other publications, posted a clip of the instructional video (below) that shows a white “voter” – played by a child actor – breezing through the voting process and allowed to cast his ballot. A Black “voter,” also played by a child actor, was denied, and, as the video shows, had to fill out a provisional ballot. The narrator reminds voters that those who are forced to fill out a provisional ballot have to return to their polling station within three days with photo ID in order for their vote to count.
Raw Story’s David Edwards Thursday posted an article about the video, “which was published to Kemp’s YouTube page in 2016,” Edwards reports, and “is still being promoted by the Georgia Secretary of State’s website.”
Shortly after after that story was published, the YouTube video has disappeared, as has the page on the Georgia Secretary of State’s website.
Here’s the clip that Enjeti posted to Twitter, which is also in the Raw Story article:
Kemp is also running to become the next Governor of Georgia. Citing his conflict of interest, his Democratic opponent, Stacey Abrams, has asked him to resign as Secretary of State so someone else can responsibly manage and monitor the state elections. Kemp has refused.