Brian Kemp Quotes
Everybody calls it a purge, but when people move out of the state, they don't need to be on our voting rolls if they're living somewhere else. That's how you get double voting.
Kemp, Brian. "Georgia Gubernatorial Debate." Atlanta Press Club, 23 Oct. 2018.
At the time, this not only was true but there were few who argued that it should be different. It was the gross abuse of the control of the elective franchise by the Southern states after Blacks had been given the right to vote and continuing into the 1960s, that the Federal Government passed the Voting Rights Act. In the election of 2000, Al Gore had won by a narrow margin as the result of decisions of the Florida Courts finding that Gore had won the state, The Supreme Court, however, overrode Florida and by a 5-4 partisan vote gave Florida and hence the election to George W. Bush. Bingham’s principle had fallen completely.
Brian Porter Kemp is an American businessman and politician serving as the 83rd governor of the State of Georgia since January 2019. A Republican, he previously was the 27th Secretary of State of Georgia from 2010 to 2018 and a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 until 2007.