During his time as Secretary of State, Republican Brian Kemp has faced much criticism about his handling of Georgia’s election systems. Specifically, he’s faced lawsuits over his handling of voter roles.
As “Morning Edition” continues its conversations with the major party candidates running for governor of Georgia, Denis O’Hayer asked Kemp about the issue.
On his office’s efforts to maintain lists of active voters
We’ve been sued by the left and the right on list maintenance issues. We get sued by the left for doing it. We get sued by the right if we’re not doing it fast enough. We haven’t been able to do a lot of the list maintenance that we normally would, because we’ve had so many elections. You know some of these claims are quite honestly outrageous and the left doesn’t want us ever to remove anybody.
On his role in efforts to reduce voting hours for elections
