Thread by @fairfightaction

🚨 ALERT: Senate Republicans introduced shocking anti-voting #SB221, legislating intimidation, conspiracy & election subversion:
-makes mass voter challenges easier
-requires dangerous surveillance of voters
-targets election workers w/new felonies & misdemeanors
& more. Thread:

#SB221 is conspiracy as policy. Last year, GA conspiracy theorists challenged 92K voters. SB221 would lower the amount of proof required of challengers, force counties to consider challenges based on unreliable data, and undermine the NVRA. nbcnews.com/politics/elect…

#SB221 risks mass voter intimidation, suborned by groups attacking mail voters. It includes wide latitude for staff to confront voters they believe are "improperly" dropping off ballots — based on disproven allegations that led to threats against voters and dismissed cases.

#SB221 makes it a felony (!) punishable by jail time for any county to accept external funding for elections. This is AFTER SB 202 provided specific ways for counties to still use grant funding, and while new costs stretch local elections budgets.

In addition, #SB221 shields prosecutors from accountability when pursuing prosecutions of voters and election workers, making it easier for the state to intimidate voters and election workers with charges — something that has an already dark history in GA.

#SB221 also adds pointless (and expensive!) new "security" requirements that would require counties to hire new staff and purchase new equipment — as a result of relentless conspiracies about mystery ballots that have been dismissed from dozens of state and federal courts.

Targeting unhoused voters, #SB221 makes it harder to register without a permanent residential address. Unhoused voters are already disproportionately under attack by disinformation and laws like SB 202, and this is another attempt to add new hurdles.

This isn't all of it - just harms that fit in 180 characters. All in all, #SB221 is a full frontal assault on elections & democracy in GA. Make no mistake: GA GOP legislators are broadcasting their support for election subversion, conspiracies & attempts to overturn results.

Taken with other proposals, like the blatant attempt to remove Black BOE members in Ware County and the history of takeovers in other counties statewide, #SB221 is part of a pattern of bills that undermine our democracy and elections in GA. ajc.com/politics/black…

Take action: call the Senate Ethics committee and tell them to reject the dangerous, disinfo-filled narratives that led to the insurrection and oppose #SB221.

Max Burns: [phone]
Rick Williams: [phone]
Jason Anavitarte: [phone]
Steve Gooch: [phone]

Marty Harbin: [phone]
Bo Hatchett: [phone]
John Kennedy: 404) 656-6578
Randy Robertson: [phone]
Brian Strickland: [phone]

/end #gapol #SB221