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Fair Fight Action is an organization founded in 2018 by Stacey Abrams to address voter suppression, especially in the states of Georgia and Texas. Fair Fight and Fair Fight Action are two separate organizations, but share the same website.

Origins
At the time, Kemp was serving as Secretary of State, and was responsible for the state's voter rolls. He stalled 50,000 votes while he held this position. Civil rights groups interpreted this as intentional voter suppression since his action affected predominantly black voters, and claimed that he was biased against minority voters.

In 2019, Abrams created Fair Fight 2020, an initiative aimed at monitoring voting practices in key battleground states.

Goals
Fair Fight Action aims to make elections in Georgia and the U.S. more equitable by advocating for changes in voter registration laws that will increase the number of eligible voters. Their goals are to encourage voter turnout and to ensure that all votes are accurately counted. They also want to make absentee ballots more consistent and make sure provisional ballots are accurately counted. Abrams has stated she will, "...use my energies and my very loud voice to raise the money we need to train those across the country in our 20 battleground states...".

Fair Fight Action joined the Voter Empowerment Task Force, which is composed of other civil rights groups such as GA NAACP, Black Voters Matter Fund, and the Georgia Coalition for People's Agenda. The coalition's mission was to fight voter intimidation and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's fraud task force. The organization has also condemned Brian Kemp's signing of HB 838.

Legal Action
Fair Fight Action sued the state of Georgia's secretary of state office over what they considered to be unconstitutional voting issues. Fair Fight Action was a party to the court case Curling v. Raffensperger which ordered the state of Georgia to dispose of all old Diebold voting machines prior to Georgia's 2020 presidential preference primary in March 2020. Stacey Abrams criticized Raffensperger for not providing proper training to voters and poll workers before the new machines were to be installed. Fair Fight action teamed up with Freedom Works to voice their concerns over the new voting machines.

Impact
The documentary "All In: The Fight for Democracy" will be available on Amazon Prime Video on September 18th, 2020. This documentary will feature Stacey Abrams and the fight against voter suppression around the U.S.

Notes

- under origins page: Elaborate on motivations for this organization be created. Were there any specific instances that were popular in the national news to validate the creation of this org?

-Is it part of any coalitions? Has it partnered with other orgs? Worked with Freedom Works to fight the secretary of state's purchasing of new machines. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stacey-abrams-georgia-primary/

They also joined the Voter Empowerment Task Force to fight voter intimidation and to go against Brad Raffensperger's fraud task force. Other members that are part of this coalition include GA NAACP, Black Voters Matter Fund, and the Georgia Coalition for People's Agenda https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/voter-protection-group-created-counter-georgia-fraud-investigations/EL8pZfYHuGQ08XIUR1lo9N/

- FFA responds to Brian Kemp's signing of HB 838.

-FFA files a motion to fight a voter purge that would erase potentially 330,000 inactive but registered voters.

-add data about the votes

-what problems has FFA addressed about voter suppression? Raffensperger's decision to get new machines without adequate training. In 2002, there was training. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stacey-abrams-georgia-primary/

-reactions from the republican party https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/scares-me-to-death-georgia-republicans-fret-voting-access-issue-could-sink-trump

-increased ballot drop boxes in GA https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/ballot-drop-boxes-approved-for-georgia-voters-during-coronavirus/4Bir3Ymx1zL0ZOGsXMazEO/

Sources

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/806103885/stacey-abrams-spearheads-fair-fight-a-campaign-against-voter-suppression

GA Primaries disaster:   https://www.ajc.com/politics/extreme-voting-lines-expose-where-georgia-primary-failed/YQUMSTEBVFAY7CR7UQOQEHSVLI/