Georgia Takes Center Stage With New Battles Over Voting Rights Two bills moving through the Republican-controlled Legislature would place new restrictions on voting access, in ways Democrats say would have an outsize impact on Black voters. A protest of a bill that would restrict voting access outside the State Capitol in Atlanta on Monday.Credit...Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via Associated Press Published March 3, 2021Updated March 30, 2021 ATLANTA — After record turnout flipped Georgia blue for the first time in decades, Republicans who control the state Legislature are moving swiftly to implement a raft of new restrictions on voting access, mounting one of the biggest challenges to voting rights in a major battleground state following the 2020 election.