Stacey Abrams Debuts Super Bowl Ad Demanding Election Reform
The Georgia ad urges people to join in the fight to return to paper ballots and reform the state's troubled and obsolete election system, which has been the target of several lawsuits.
January 31, 2019 at 03:58 PM
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Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is taking her fight to reform the state's current election system from the courts to the Super Bowl.
Abrams debuted the commercial—which will air during Sunday's Super Bowl in Atlanta—less than 48 hours after newly-installed Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked a federal judge to dismiss an election accountability lawsuit filed by nonprofit Fair Fight Action, which Abrams founded.
The lawsuit alleges broad constitutional, civil rights and voting rights violations, as well as significant breaches of federal election laws. The suit also asks the federal court to take jurisdiction over Georgia's elections so that no policy, standard, practice or procedure governing them may be enacted without court approval.
The Super Bowl ad will air two days before Abrams, an attorney and former state House minority leader, is slated to deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
The 30-second ad features Abrams and Habersham County Commissioner Natalie Crawford, a Republican, both calling for election reform, a return to hand-marked paper ballots and a commitment that “every vote will be counted.”
A committee established by now-Gov. Brian Kemp before he resigned as secretary of state in January rejected a growing movement to return to paper ballots that first crystallized in ongoing federal litigation in Atlanta. Kemp's committee recommended purchasing new electronic voting machines and servers to replace the current obsolete electronic system that he and his staff vigorously defended while he was secretary of state.
Habersham County, Georgia, was drawn into an election contest last year after a losing Republican candidate for the state House of Representatives sued to invalidate his Republican opponent's primary win. A judge voided the primary election last September, and a new primary—which is also being challenged in court—took place in December.
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