Brian Kemp, the current secretary of state in Georgia, is also the Republican candidate for governor. The secretary of state conducts the elections, a clear conflict of interest that Mr. Kemp is unable to see. Along with other dirty tricks, Georgia has passed a law called exact match. According to this scheme, if the name on your voter registration does not exactly match your name on any other state database, you will be dropped from the rolls, even if that discrepancy was caused by a state employee misspelling your name. It is a blatant voter suppression tactic. It has already resulted in 50,000 voters, by far mostly democrats, being dropped from the rolls. As with so many other states, Republicans don’t think they can win election unless they cheat.
Feeling the need to do something, anything at all, I have composed a letter I will send to corporations headquartered in Georgia. Corporations benefit greatly from doing business in the US and have a responsibility to protect the democracy they so benefit from. A copy of my letter follows. I urge anyone reading this missive to also call or email firms in Georgia to spur them to act as good citizens. Feel free to use, in whole or in part, my message.
my email:
The state of Georgia has passed a law called exact match whereby any discrepancy in any state database between the voter registration name and another database will cause the voter to be purged from the rolls. The discrepancy can be as simple as a missing hyphen, a single letter, a middle initial. It matters not whether the difference was from the voter or an error by a government employee.
The essence of democracy is that power is given to the governing by the consent of the governed. That means all the governed for it to be legitimate. Many have died or been maimed to support this democracy. Citizens and corporations alike owe it to them to stand for what their sacrifice was given for.
Therefore, unless and until this practice is excised, I will be boycotting any concern headquartered in the state of Georgia.
The largest corporations in Georgia: