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Jim Crow 2.0 or no big deal: Here's what's in that hotly debated Georgia voting law


Jim Crow 2.0 or no big deal: Here s what s in that hotly debated Georgia voting law
cbc.ca
2 hrs ago
Alexander Panetta
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Protesters gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol last month as lawmakers debated several voting bills. Defenders of a now-passed law say it s being badly distorted.
It seems the one basic fact everyone can agree on with respect to Georgia s controversial new voting law is that an outrageous injustice has been committed.
What that outrage is depends on who you talk to.
Opponents of the just-passed bill call it a modern-day version of racist old laws that enforced segregation in the U.S. for decades. Jim Crow 2.0, is how Park Cannon, a state lawmaker arrested while protesting the bill, described it to CBC News. ....

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