Demonstrators chained together protest HB 531 outside of the Georgia State Capitol Building on day 25 of the legislative session in Atlanta, Monday, March 1, 2021.
House Bill 531 passed the lower legislative chamber by a vote of 97-72. It now goes to the state Senate for more debate. “House Bill 531 is designed to begin to bring back the confidence of our voters back into our election system,” said Republican Rep. Barry Fleming, the measure’s chief sponsor. Dozens of protesters gathered just outside the Capitol on Monday in opposition to the bill, chanting “say no to voter suppression” and “protect the vote.”
Why are we going backwards, is it the new motto for Republicans
This is misleading as a lot of things were allowed without approval from state legislatures, so you want to make the rules “fair”, actually win local elections- not that hard oh wait it is
At what point or more evidence of voter suppression is needed for congress to reverse and further strengthen the voting rights act that was gutted a few years back, when LGBTQ was given marriage rights in exchange for taking Black votes. This Blk rts swap 4 Gays has continued
To HELL with THEM!
_Politics GOP actually wrote a bill to limit democracy. Wow - talk about showing your true colors!
Fight for the right to vote, Trump can’t get over 81M did not want him, so let cut the vote down 🤔
They voted that way because 2k checks were promised. Idk why they’re trippin. Just promise more money bro
Lol can't win the game so they change the rules.
If you can beat em, make it so they can’t vote. The GOP modo.
_Politics US is probably the only democratic country in the world where politicians actively try to make voting harder for the people. What does it say about you as a person/candidate, if you think the only way u can win an election is by limiting the no. of people being able to vote?
_Politics So much for unity.
And they are the ones screaming about fraud in the last election. I guess their definition of fraud is someone getting more votes than them. Unbelievable!
Only way the GOP wins is by cheating.
The orange one is right, there was election fraud and the GOP committed it. Evey single case that has been proven real has been by a GOP person
_Politics Delta management needs to tell lawmakers this is unacceptable....Delta can move their Hub. They have threatened lawmakers before.
Jim Crow is alive and well
Congress can supersede all state-legislations that oppress legitimate voting rights, can't it?
But WHAAAT does the parlimentarian say about things?!? That should slow them darn Republicans down. Cause the democrats dint seem to accomplish anything besides breaking campaign promises when theyre in charge.
Of course they did… can’t stand that we turning blue..
This is criminal. GaRepublicans are racist.
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A part of the bill is to make voting take place on Sunday bc they know Black voters set aside Sundays for church. Well, I'm sure the Good Lord wouldn't mind that every 2 years for one day, they worship privately or on Saturday to keep GA blue.
Get the courts ready. Time to finally quash the Jim Crow Georgia!
Again with the photo ID nonsense? Photo ID doesn’t make it harder to vote. It makes fraudulent voting more difficult. What’s the actual number of people 18 or older that don’t have any form of ID in this county?
This is really unbelievable and sad.
NEVER GIVE UP GA!! Don't let the GOP dictate your future. BLM BETHECHANGE!
WETHEPEOPLEPACK Can’t let them do this.
How is requiring a valid ID, for legal U.S. citizens only, rolling back voter access? It’s the way it should be.
Voter ID part ok but the rest is questionable
Disgraceful
Time to take over the State Legislature
How is it that too many people voting is wrong in a democracy.
Anti American Republicans hate when people vote.
When you can't win legitimately, silence.
Criminal
Can’t win, cheat.
'rolling back voting access' sounds like they want to keep people from voting ! The bill actually proposes 'requiring a photo id for absentee ballots'.
All they have left is to suppress
Rolling back access? AP idiots write false lead on story about requiring voter ID and keeping elections honest. You guys suck at accuracy: just pander to the woke mob.
I guess in theory you could prevent all voter fraud by preventing everyone from voting. North Korea probably has no voter fraud.
Georgia DEM’s. Push, pull, or drag; bring your people to the polls. Vote every republican out of office. Revoke the GOP repression once you take control
This should be criminal!!
'We can't have fair elections', the new GOP slogan. Because with fair elections, people like Jim Jordan would never get elected. The GOP is full blown anti-American.
So the answer is to make it more difficult for people to vote...yep, that makes perfect sense. So glad I left the GOP years ago!
Requiring ID is not voter suppression. You need an ID to fly, drive, get insurance, collect unemployment, ride a bus, rent a hotel room, rent a library book. Go to any minority neighborhood and ask people if they have ID’s. See what happens.
The GOP is getting pretty blatant with their corruption. I guess when you start calling accountability 'cancel culture' you can weasel your way out of most anything.
People voted. The GaRepublicans can't have anymore of those shenanigans. I'm convinced that GA didn't just suddenly turn blue. It's always been blue but because of gerrymandering, restrictions & suppression, a *certain demographic wasn't allowed to vote before. 🤨
The only way a republican can win is cheating
Failure to abolish the filibuster in 2021 will inevitably lead to the demise of democracy. The GOP plans to retake control by voter suppression, not by superior ideas. HR1/SR1 must pass. It will do so only if the filibuster is eliminated.
Well, golly, GOP candidates can’t win if people vote...
Unconstitutional and made irrelevant by the 'FOr the People' act that WILL pass, in 3-2-1💥
GOP = Crooked is, is Crooked does!
RepubliQans know they cannot win without voter suppression. We need more Stacey Abramses.....!!!
Then how do we get the people kicked off registered?
Can’t win on merits so cheat. The GOP way.
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