Thread by @AriBerman

Thread - all the ways Georgia legislation makes it harder to vote:

-makes it crime to give food & water to voters in line

-severely limits mail ballot drop boxes

-allows GOP legislature to appoint majority on state election board & suspend county election officials

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-allows unlimited challenges to voter eligibility

-adds strict new ID requirement for mail ballots

-gives voters less time to request mail ballots

-prevents election officials from sending out mail ballot applications

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-bans mobile voting centers

-throws out most ballots cast in wrong precinct

-prohibits election funding from nonprofit groups

-makes it more difficult to extend voting hours when problems arise

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-cuts runoff elections to just 4 weeks after Dems won in Jan

-removes sec of state as chair of state election board after he stood up to Trump

-creates new voter fraud hotline run by state AG

So much of the bill is based directly on Trump's lies

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NYT found 16 different provisions that "hamper the right to vote" & called Georgia law "a breathtaking assertion of partisan power in elections" that will "curtail ballot access for voters in booming urban and suburban counties, home to many Democrats" nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/…

"Trump's efforts to manipulate the electoral process failed in Georgia. But if the Georgia legislature has its way, Republicans could have a much easier time overturning the will of voters in future elections"

This is what it's all about motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

And let’s not forget how Black state rep @Cannonfor58 was arrested & facing 8 years in jail for knocking on governor’s door while violent white insurrectionists at Capitol went free