07.11 / 01:23
politics
Election
LGBTQ+ Folks Praise Stacey Abrams's Work Against Voter Suppression
Abrams famously called out voter suppression when she ran in 2018 against Republican Brian Kemp to become the governor of Georgia. The win would have made Abrams the country’s first Black woman governor, but her opponent had the advantage since he was at that time the secretary of state there and thus in charge of counting the votes.The new documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy chronicles Abrams's journey, including how she was barred from voting in her own election because when she arrived at the polls, she was told she had already voted.“In all seriousness, Stacey Abrams did an incredible thing in GA and across the country,” author Roxane Gay tweeted.