Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who conceded the race against the Republican Brian Kemp, refused to call Kemp the legitimate governor-elect and stated that democracy had “failed” the state, Fox News informed.
Abrams stated that Kemp, who is former Georgia’s secretary of state, has “won an adequate number of votes to become the governor of Georgia” and would become the “legal governor of Georgia” when he takes the oath in office.
“But we know sometimes the law does not do what it should, and something being legal does not make it right,” Abrams told Tapper. “What you are looking for me to say is that there was no compromise of our democracy and that there should be some political compromise in the language that I use. And that’s not right. … Will I say that this election was not tainted, was not a disinvestment and a disenfranchisement of thousands of voters? I will not say that.”
“It began eight years ago with the systematic disenfranchisement of more than a million voters and continued with the underfunding and disinvestment in polling places and training and in the management of the county delivery of services, and I think it had its pinnacle in this race,” Abrams continued.
Other top Democrats echoed Abrams’ rhetoric. “Democracy did not win in Georgia,” former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted Sunday morning.
Kemp had touted the law, which flags discrepancies between voter registrations and official identification documents. If there are any differences — such as a missing hyphen — voters had to clear the matter up with a state official before voting.
Abrams also pointed to Kemp’s decision to initiate a hacking investigation into the Georgia Democratic Party.
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