Democrats look to corporate CEOs in Georgia attack on voting rights The Republican Party is advancing its campaign to suppress voting rights around the country. So far in 2021, state legislatures have introduced 361 bills that would restrict access to the ballot for millions of people. Fifty-five of these bills are currently progressing through state legislatures and five have been signed into law. These bills largely employ similar restrictions, imposing greater constraints on early voting, voter ID requirements and mail-in voting. The purpose of these bills is to frustrate the voting process and impose restrictions that make voting, particularly voting by mail, more difficult, if not entirely impractical for many elderly and impoverished people.