If, like me, you're dizzied by the back and forth over the Georgia voting law, this is helpful. Seems like the GOP wanted to make the law a lot worse, but backed down after backlash. The law does expand voting access in some ways, ...
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... but more in rural (read: white, conservative) areas. The water thing is real, and bad. There are some good parts, like mandating new precincts in areas where there have been long waits. Some provisions seem destined to make vote counting more chaotic. But the worst part is...
. . . kneecapping the secretary of state by giving the legislature control over the election board. Hard not to read that as direct repudiation of Raffensperger for doing his job, and not facilitating Trump's attempt to nullify the presidential election.
And yes, of course, any discussion of this ought to acknowledge the backdrop: 1. Republicans know the more people vote (and the more non-white people vote), the more they lose. 2. The "election integrity" justification is really just reframing Trump's lies about 2020.
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