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Georgia Senate Republicans just introduced sweeping new voter suppression bill that repeals no-excuse absentee voting & requires witness signature + photocopy of voter ID for mail ballots. This is really ugly
1.3 million Georgians voted by mail in 2020, including 450,000 Republicans, but under new GOP bill you can only vote by mail if out of town, disabled, over 65, religious holiday or can't get off work. This is extremely restrictive https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/198553 …pic.twitter.com/qxMZ4js6UE
The bill requires a witness signature for mail ballots, which only a dozen states mandate AND a photocopy of voter ID, which requires access to copier or printer. Ridiculouspic.twitter.com/QrSQH94dKN
Georgia Senate GOP voter suppression bill follows House bill eliminating Sunday voting when Black churches do Souls to Polls drives, which is being called "Jim Crow with suit & tie"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/georgia-republicans-voter-suppression-bill/ …
The explosion of new GOP voter suppression efforts in Georgia & elsewhere makes it crystal clear why Dems need to urgently pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act & For the People Act
New GOP voter suppression bills in Georgia “direct response" to Dems winning in November & January, I told @chrislhayes
"Instead of trying to reach new constituencies, they are trying to suppress those new constituencies from voting in the future”https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-video/mmvo101428293729?__twitter_impression=true …
"Many of our citizens have expressed a lack of faith and integrity in our current election systems" says statement from Georgia Senate Republicans. This is so disingenuous. They spread Trump's Big Lie & are now using it to justify new voter suppressionpic.twitter.com/shjq7bpD8x
3 recounts in Georgia found zero evidence of fraud Audit of 15,000 mail ballots in Cobb County found 2 mismatches signatures, 0 illegal votes The only "problem" Republicans want to fix is too many Dems & Black people voting
Read this thread for much more on voter suppression in Georgia. It’s a shameful race to the bottomhttps://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1362491495178252291 …
"If Democrats were looking for a reason to pass a new federal voting rights law, this is example 1A”https://www.ajc.com/politics/the-jolt-why-georgia-elections-may-never-be-the-same/5DE25526RVCEFE3OMLYFLJXURI/ …
Georgia Republicans holding hearing on sweeping voter suppression bill that would give state some of most restrictive mail voting laws in country at 730 AM today, when they think nobody will be paying attentionhttps://twitter.com/stphnfwlr/status/1364908890043916289 …
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