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DESCRIPTION:September 17, 4:30 pm Pacific time\n\nThe Appreciating Diversity Film 
 Series is proud to present a virtual screening of Suppressed 2020: The 
 Fight to Vote, on Thursday, September 17, 2020, at 4:30 P.M., followed by a 
 talk with voting rights advocate Valerie Morishige. Director Robert 
 Greenwald's urgent and timely film focuses on the Stacy Abrams 
 gubernatorial campaign in Georgia, revealing the rampant voter suppression 
 that affected the outcome of that 2018 midterm election. The film exposes 
 the threat those techniques pose to our elections all across the nation in 
 2020.\n\nThe 40-minute documentary illustrates the problems of long voting 
 lines and uncounted absentee ballots, and how Brian Kemp, who was both a 
 candidate for governor and the Secretary of State in charge of the Georgia 
 election, put more than 53,000 voter registrations on hold until after the 
 election. Eighty percent of those registrations were filed by Black 
 residents. Not surprisingly, Kemp won the election and is now the Georgia 
 Governor. These voter suppression efforts and failures in the voting 
 process are not confined to Georgia or other "red" states.\n\nThe state of 
 Georgia has been quietly --and illegally-- purging hundreds of thousands of 
 valid registered voters from the state rolls for the better half of a 
 decade, according to a blockbuster report from the American Civil Liberties 
 Union just published on September 2. Of the more than 300,000 names that 
 were purged from the rolls, the study discovered that "198,351 Georgia 
 voters who supposedly moved from their registration addresses who, in fact, 
 have not moved at all, and therefore were wrongly purged, a 63.3% error 
 rate." This is a conservative estimate, however, because the report "left 
 out of this list those voters whose addresses we were unable to confirm," 
 the ACLU explains.\n\nPlease join us for this fascinating, infuriating film 
 and learn how to recognize and prevent voter suppression right here in 
 California.\n\nFree, register at website.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/12/18836598.php
SUMMARY:'Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote'
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/12/18836598.php
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