Saturday, February 20, 2021

Georgia Republicans seek to end Sunday early voting, a popular election method for Black voters


https://www.businessinsider.com/georgia-gop-absentee-early-voting-restrictions-sunday-black-voters-2021-2

 

John L. Dorman

Feb. 20, 2021

 

GOP lawmakers in the Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday unveiled a sweeping bill that would impose new restrictions on absentee voting and end early voting on Sundays, a day when Black churchgoers often head to the ballot box as part of "Souls to the Polls" voting drives.

The push for additional restrictions comes after President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump in the state by roughly 12,000 votes last November, along with the dual victories of Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in last month's Senate runoff elections.


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Just days ago, top GOP officials like Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan couldn't provide concrete reasoning as to why additional voting restrictions were necessary in the absence of any widespread voter fraud.

"I don't think we have identified a problem we are trying to solve," Duncan told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I think this is an opportunity 'to update and modernize' voting in Georgia."

[In other words, they want to stack the deck in their own favor, against the will of the people.]

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Georgia's actions follow the pattern of GOP-controlled legislatures across the country that are seeking to impose additional restrictions in the wake of Trump's reelection loss.

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