Georgia election: high Black voter turnout was due to years of activist efforts

As voter suppression became more brazen, overcoming was a core part of work that organizers did to mobilize a new electorate

Deborah Scott has been registering voters for well over a decade in Georgia, but about five years ago she began to notice a problem. Georgia Stand-Up, the civic action group she leads, started getting a spike in calls from people who said they filled out a voter registration form but never received an official voter registration card. We're like hey, what's going on here?,'" she said.

Scott's group adjusted their voter registration strategy. After they got someone to register, they started tracking their voter registration and following up with them to ensure it went through. When there was a problem, they would help the voter follow up with local election officials. Sometimes, after that follow-up inquiry, the election officials would miraculously" discover the registration was there all along, Scott said.