Breaking: Georgia’s GOP-controlled House passes new voter suppression bill #HB531 cutting weekend voting, restricting mail ballot drop boxes, adding voter ID for mail ballots, giving voters less time to return ballots & dramatically limiting runoff time after Dems won in Nov/Jan
"Georgia is ground zero for the GOP’s escalating war on voting, targeting the voting methods that were used most by Democratic voters in 2020 and which contributed to flipping the state blue and electing two Democratic senators" motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Dems have a clear choice: they can get rid of filibuster to pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act & For the People Act to stop GOP voter suppression
Or they can allow GOP to undermine democracy for next decade
The stakes couldn’t be higher
Or they can allow GOP to undermine democracy for next decade
The stakes couldn’t be higher
How #HB531 restricts voting:
-Limits Sunday voting
-Reduces ballot drop boxes
-Disqualifies ballots cast in wrong precinct
-Cuts runoffs from 9 weeks to 4 & only 5 days early voting
-Bans sending absentee ballot applications
-Bans $ from nonprofits
ajc.com/politics/georg…
-Limits Sunday voting
-Reduces ballot drop boxes
-Disqualifies ballots cast in wrong precinct
-Cuts runoffs from 9 weeks to 4 & only 5 days early voting
-Bans sending absentee ballot applications
-Bans $ from nonprofits
ajc.com/politics/georg…
It's very telling that as Republicans push wave of new voter suppression laws in states like Georgia they're also going to SCOTUS to strike down the remaining parts of Voting Rights Act that would stop voting discrimination motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
And now Georgia GOP senate committee has passed bill repealing no-excuse absentee voting, which Republicans wrote & defended until Dems started using
https://twitter.com/ariberman/status/1366530819628613636
Joining @NewDay at 730 discussing voter suppression in Georgia & before SCOTUS
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