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On Second Thought For Tuesday, August 30, 2016
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We head to the polls on Tuesday’s show and examine voting issues across the state. Republican nominee Donald Trump has claimed on multiple occasions that the presidential election is rigged against him. We speak with Emory University law professor Michael Kang about mistrust in the voting system and whether voters should be concerned.
Then, the non-partisan journalism project News21 evaluated hundreds of allegations of voter fraud over the last few years including cases in Georgia and found none of the prosecuted cases involved voter impersonation. We talk about voter fraud in Georgia with Secretary of State Brian Kemp and Emory University professor Andra Gillespie.
Plus, the small town of Sparta, Georgia made headlines earlier this year over accusations the county board of elections targeted black voters to purge them from voters rolls. We hear one voter’s account of what happened. This type of action would have needed the approval of the U.S. Department of Justice a few years ago. But that changed in 2013 when the Supreme Court struck down a key provision in the Voting Rights Act. So, what affect will all this have in the upcoming election in Georgia? We talk with writer Ari Berman of The Nation and election expert David Becker.