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In the first #The19thLive @staceyabrams says Georgia’s reopening ignores science re coronavirus transmission. “We’re not nearly at the place we need to be to safely reopen.”

“Yes we’ve seen a minor decline in the number of cases ... there will be spikes when more people are back in the environment,” Stacey Abrams says during #The19thLive

.@staceyabrams is now telling #The19thLive about her work in rural Georgia related to the coronavirus pandemic, cites food insecurity and lack of Internet as challenges in the region. “More remains to be done.”

.@staceyabrams tells #The19thLive that she anticipated that based on her 2018 voter suppression experience “something catastrophic” would happen in 2020 but she didn’t expect a pandemic.

“We know there are gold standards for how we can vote by mail in 2020 those gold standards are not hard,” @staceyabrams tells #The19thLive saying postage should be paid on ballots and there needs to be federal action. Communities should be able to collect ballots.

“There’s deep concerns about whether people have access to the stamps they need,” @staceyabrams tells #The19thLive of Georgia’s June primary election.

.@staceyabrams says Ahmaud Arbery case is about “vigilantes” and about men who “thought they had a right to take a man’s life due to a hunch” and what happened after was “deeply concerning” when 2 DAs did not take action #The19thLive