Voting rights advocates call Ga. election interference indictment ‘one level of vindication’

Audrey Washington
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Voting rights advocates from both sides of the political aisle are reacting to the indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 others.

“What Trump did, what his team did was an attack on Black voters. They weren’t concerned with all of Georgia, just places where there are Black voters,” said Cliff Albright, the director of Black Voters Matter.

Former President Donald Trump and others are charged with interfering with the 2020 Georgia election.

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The chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, Josh McKoon, told Channel 2′s Audrey Washington he believes the case should have been handled at the ballot box, not in the courtroom.

“The criminal justice system is just becoming another political tool. I think it’s sad that the district attorney will put loyalty to party over country,” McKoon said.

From the beginning of the investigation, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said that she takes the case seriously and that no one is above the law.

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Trump is accused of pressuring and then asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensburger to “find 11,780 votes” in Georgia.

Washington asked McKoon about that recording.

“Context is really important in this thing and all of the people who are tied up in this, there’s obviously a focus on the former president, but all of the other people indicted, it’s terrible,” said McKoon.

However, Albright believes the grand jury got it right.

“It can’t make up for the things that were done, the harassment that Black voters faced, the stress that poll workers had to deal with, it’s not a replacement of that, but it’s certainly one level of vindication,” Albright said.

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