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ATLANTA – Republican state lawmakers took a major step Monday toward overhauling voting by mail and other election procedures in Georgia with passage of an omnibus bill by the state House of Representatives along party lines.
comments Georgia State House Republicans approved a sweeping bill that would make it harder for voters to cast ballots in response to rampant false claims about election fraud that top state officials have repeatedly debunked. The Georgia House voted 97-72 along party lines to approve a bill that would limit Sunday voting to a single day, restrict mail ballot drop boxes to early voting locations, require voter ID for mail ballots, set the deadline for voters to request mail ballots to 11 days before the election, and cut the amount of time between general elections and runoffs from nine we...
In Georgia, we saw firsthand just how disastrous the 2020 election was.
Georgia Recorder Protesters wanted answers about proposed voting changes Monday from top Georgia election aide Gabriel Sterling on the steps of the state Capitol. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder While state lawmakers passed expansive new voting restrictions Monday, dozens of protesters gathered outside the Gold Dome for a 12-hour rally against changes they say make it harder for Black Georgians to cast a ballot. âThey need to do the will of the people,â said Cyntha Bohannon-Brown of Rex. âBy keeping people who are not able to get to the ballots from voting, they’re basicall...
Restrictions on vote-by-mail clear Georgia House Beau Evans ATLANTA – Republican state lawmakers took a major step Monday toward overhauling voting by mail and other election procedures in Georgia with passage of an omnibus bill by the state House of Representatives along party lines. Sponsored by Rep. Barry Fleming, R-Harlem, the 66-page bill contains more than two dozen provisions including proposals to impose stricter identification requirements on absentee voters, a change the state Senate approved last week. Fleming’s bill would scrap Georgia’s current signature-verification proc...