He walked miles in his suit and tie. He didn’t get to vote.

 

Voter suppression is nothing new. But ever since the conservative majority on the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, bad actors like Brian Kemp and his allies have been able to more easily force through horrific new anti-voter laws and practices.

In a moment, I will share a story about the type of voter suppression the Voting Rights Act was passed to prevent, and I’ll share what we are up against today.

we need to be clear-eyed about what it will take to overcome Brian Kemp’s anti-voter tactics and win our fight to protect the rights of all eligible Georgians, and I need your help today. Can you chip in $5 or whatever you can afford to make sure Georgians’ voices are heard?

In 1946, Mr. Otis Moss, a sharecropper in Troup County, Georgia, put on his only suit and best tie, and walked six miles to his polling location to vote for the first time. When he arrived, they told him he was at the wrong place and sent him another six miles to Mountville. In Mountville, they sent him to yet another location.

When he finally arrived, having walked all day in that suit and tie, he was told that the polls were closed. He never had a chance to vote.

Decades later, during the tenure of a Georgia Secretary of State named Brian Kemp, 214 polling locations closed across the state. In 2018, Brian Kemp was both a candidate for governor and overseeing the election as secretary of state. After he became governor, Kemp and his allies passed a complex set of changes that made it more difficult to vote — particularly to vote by mail — and even made it a crime for volunteers to pass out a snack or bottle of water to voters waiting in lines.

The freedom to vote in our country is not partisan, it is our patriotic right. But Republicans believe in democracy only for some, as they have concluded that when more eligible voters vote, Democrats are more likely to win. That’s exactly what happened in 2020 and 2021 when we mobilized the most diverse electorates in Georgia history to elect President Joe Biden and achieve the historic victories of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

No matter how hard they try to stop us, though, we will fight to make sure every eligible Georgian can vote and have their vote counted. If you are able, pitch in $5 to help us overcome voter suppression by turning out as many Georgia voters as possible. It will not be easy, but I know what we can accomplish together.

Thank you,

Stacey

 

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