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ATLANTA, GEORGIA?A court could decide any day now whether tens of thousands of Georgia voters can cast a ballot this November, a choice that could sway the outcome of the state?s neck-and-neck races for Governor and Senator.
Earlier this year, organizers fanned out across nearly every one of Georgia?s 159 counties and registered nearly 90 thousand people who have never voted in their lives, most of them people of color, many of them under 25 years old. But when the groups checked back in late August, comparing their registration database to the state?s public one, they noticed about 50,000 of the registrations had vanished, nearly all of them belonging to people of color in the Democratic-leaning regions around Atlanta, Savannah and Columbus.
Georgia?s state minority leader Stacy Abrams (D), whose group The New Georgia Project led the massive registration drive in March and April, told ThinkProgress what happened next was ?deeply disturbing.?
?We asked the Secretary of State to meet with us. We wanted to understand if we were doing something wrong, or if there was another database we didn?t have access to. But he refused to meet with us,? she said.
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