Voting Gangnam Style: The Rise of Kim Crow

The Asian-American community is the fastest growing community in Atlanta and it’s the one that put Warnock and Ossoff over the top — and that scares the hell out of Georgia Republicans. So the Asian-American community is the prime target of their vote suppression attacks — it’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.

But the suppression of the Asian-American vote is not new. Obama’s Presidential Commission on Elections released a study that showed Black and Hispanic voters were more than twice as likely as other voters to get provisional ballots — and that the proportion of Asian-American voters that got shifted to provisional “placebo” ballots was even worse. And during my investigation of Kris Kobach’s flawed-by-design, common name matching Crosscheck voter purge program, I found that in the participating states, Crosscheck identified one in seven African-American voters for the purge — and one in eight Asian-American voters.

And as the Asian-American community becomes increasingly more engaged in the election process, and as their demographic shifts from red to blue, their community has increasingly become a target of the GOP’s mass voter suppression tactics, especially in battleground states like Georgia, as detailed in this chapter from my most recent book.

https://www.gregpalast.com/voting-gangnam-style-the-rise-of-kim-crow/