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    Voting rights advocates eye Georgia, where close governor's race could turn on who gets to vote

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Nov 02, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - For years, voting rights advocates have been fighting new state laws and rules that make it harder for some people to register to vote or to cast a ballot.

    This year, their fight is focused on Georgia and its race for governor.

    "Georgia is ground zero this cycle," said Wendy R. Weiser, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

    While Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate, formerly led a project that registered new voters in Georgia, Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate and current secretary of state, led a state drive to remove hundreds of thousands of infrequent voters from the

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