. After Republicans suffered high-profile losses in Georgia’s presidential and Senate races that featured record numbers of early voters and votes cast by mail, many in the GOP expressed support for new restrictions on absentee voting they said would improve security. That support has not gone away, leading Republican House Speaker David Ralston to form a Special Committee on Election Integrity when the Legislature resumed earlier this month. “Many Georgians are concerned about the integrity of our election system. Some of those concerns may or may not be well-founded, but there may be others that are,” Ralston said at an event hosted by the Chamber of Commerce last week.