Former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams said the government’s ability to ensure that everyone has a safe way to vote in the November election will indicate how seriously it has responded to calls for racial equality and justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

Abrams, who is contending to be presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, is a leading voting rights activist who challenged her defeat in 2018 in the Georgia governor’s race to Republican Brian Kemp. Abrams claimed after losing the close race that Kemp, then Georgia’s secretary of state, engaged in voter suppression.