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John,

While I am very happy to be your nominee for Congress in
GA-04, I am embarrassed by the mismanagement of Tuesday’s
election.

Even though 90% of Georgia’s polling places were open,
locations were rife with technical malfunctions and
inefficiencies. Instead of straight-forward pen on paper ballots
-- the most secure way to vote and conduct a recount -- the state
spent $110 million on machines that experts repeatedly warned
were “at risk of intrusions and malfunctions.”

Year after year, Georgia seems to provide the nation
with endless examples of how not to run elections. And I wish I
could say it was all accidental or mere incompetence.

Since the Reconstruction era, politicians have been
working to suppress the Black vote and make it harder for Black
Americans to cast their ballot. We saw it with poll taxes up
until the 1960’s, the Republicans’ National Ballot Security Task
Force that “patrolled” polling places in the 1980’s, voter ID
laws in the 2000’s up to present day, and of course, we saw it in
2018 when Brian Kemp used voter suppression to steal the
gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams.

This long history of disenfranchisement has got to stop,
John. Across the nation, people are
rising up against the pandemic of police brutality against Black
Americans. But policing is not the only institution letting
people of color down. Our election systems are rigged against
Black and Brown Americans who just want to step up and have their
voice heard.

The change can start right here, with campaigns like
mine for Congress. If the state of Georgia won’t do their job, my
campaign will. We are going to work around the clock to register
people of color to vote and get-out-the-vote. But to do this work
at full throttle, we need your help to kick off our campaign
strong. Will you consider making a $15 or $20 contribution to our
General Election Kickoff Fund? It will really make a difference.

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Thank you all. Together we will get through this, and
create a nation that truly offers liberty and justice for all.

In solidarity,

Hank

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Congressman Hank Johnson is a former defense
attorney, DeKalb County commissioner, small business owner, and
magistrate judge who now serves in Congress as a champion for the
middle class.

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Hank Johnson for Congress
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Decatur GA 30034 United States


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