Documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy traces the long history of voter suppression and follows the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate’s fight for fair elections
The two months between Labor Day and the US
election in November are crunch time for Stacey Abrams. Two years ago, during the 2018 midterms, the
Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia pressed to register and rally voters amid disturbing revelations about the fairness of the election. Two weeks before election day, an investigation found that the state of Georgia had improperly purged 340,000 people from voter registration rolls without notice; the man in charge of running a fair election,
Secretary of State Brian Kemp, had previously blocked 53,000 people – 80% of them black – from registering to vote due to minor discrepancies in their state records.
Kemp, a
Republican and outspoken Trump loyalist, was also running against Abrams, who would have become the nation’s first black female governor, had she not lost by a razor-thin margin of about 55,000 votes.