Republican lawmakers in Georgia muscled legislation through the state House on Monday that would roll back voting access, over the objection of Democrats and civil rights groups gathered at the Capitol to protest.
House Bill 531 passed the lower legislative chamber by a vote of 97 to 72. It now goes to the state Senate for more debate. Republicans say the measure is needed to restore the public’s confidence in elections, after former President Trump and his allies“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.about election fraud and would disproportionately affect voters of color.
“Today, before the eyes of this country, Georgia is poised to pass some of the most egregious, dangerous and most expensive voter suppression acts in this entire nation, rolling back years of hardball progress and renewing our own reputation for discrimination,” the Rev. James Woodall, president of the Georgia NAACP, said at the rally.Advertisement
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Voter fraud has yet to be supported by any significant evidence, thus the GOP claims of increasing voter confidence is fundamentally flawed.
You can pay taxes by mail. You should be able to vote by mail.
The South is gonna South
VoterSuppressionParty
So sad. Republicans can’t win if everyone votes, so they prevent everyone from voting. That is soooo very wrong. Something needs to be done about this.
In Canada voting laws are federal laws...the US needs to do the same...voting is for everyone...some backwoods Republican should never decide if you can vote.
The GOP says that making it harder to vote necessary to restore voter confidence. Unfortunately the only way to restore confidence in our elections is for GaRepublicans to stop lying about election fraud. GOP trumplost nofraud VoterSuppression
JohnLewisVotingRightsAct
If the Democrats ever retake the legislature there they should arrest every last one of them.
Republican cancel culture....
This bill is not to help they need to stop the lies
“rolling back voting access“ for Antifa? Can the protesters in the photo not vote anymore because they don’t have an ID or are editors encouraging people to burn down cities again?
UglyGOP
Makes you wonder if the Republican national committee will continue to try to get out the vote. They were so proud of how many people they registered before the presidential election of 2020, posting in tweets day after day after day how they registered new voters.
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