Republicans In Georgia With Law Restricting Voting Rights – NRK Urix – Foreign News & Documentaries

The bill was introduced after Democrats won the presidential election and two senatorial elections as a result of record attendance in November and January.

The law was approved by a 97-72 vote of Democrats in the state’s lower house. Now he goes to the state senate for a more in-depth debate.

66 page law

The detailed 66-page bill required, among other things, a photo ID to cast a preliminary vote, something many Americans do not have. The law shortens the time you have to request the vote-by-mail ballot, limits where the early voting polls can be placed and when they should be open, and stops early voting early in the morning on weekends.

Democrats believe the law in practice will make it more difficult to vote, especially for African Americans.

After Democrat Stacey Abrams began her campaign to get more blacks, and especially women, to register as voters, the conversation about early voting skyrocketed, much to the frustration of Republicans. In the 2018 elections, 223,000 people voted early in the state. In the 2020 presidential election, 1.3 million people voted early in Georgia, something that gave Joe Biden an important voice.

Georgia is currently one of 34 states that do not require a constitution if they want to vote early. Republicans want to limit this possibility. One of the reasons they say is that three weeks of free early voting has overloaded election staff.

Stacey Abrams says up to MSNBC that there are various attempts to restrict voting rights in the United States, led by parts of the Republican Party.

In various states

The law is one of many that Republicans are trying to pass in various states to restrict voting power.

Republicans say such laws are necessary to restore voters’ confidence in the electoral system, while Democrats say it is because of Donald Trump’s unfounded allegations of voter fraud that people’s trust has weakened.