So you’re asking if I actually can explain how the new Georgia voting law discourages voting, especially in minority & lower income communities and sets up ways for the legislature and exec branch to tamper with elections the way President Trump tried? Okay, if you insist. 1/17
So you’re asking if I actually can explain how the new Georgia voting law discourages voting, especially in minority & lower income communities and sets up ways for the legislature and exec branch to tamper with elections the way President Trump tried? Okay, if you insist. 1/17
—The most dangerous part of the Georgia voting law is that it removes from the State Election Board the vote of the Secretary of State—even though under Georgia Constitution, the Scty of State oversees elections. It also puts the board under the control of the legislature. 2/17
And the election board can suspend and replace any local election official basically anytime they want, for just about any reason—like having an honest election. 3/17
If that had been the law in November, a state board controlled by the Republican legislature would have been able to do exactly what President Trump illegally wanted—firing election officials in counties, like Clayton, Dekalb and Fulton, that voted big for Biden... 4/17
...And then sending in carpetbaggers to declare fraud where there was none, and fraudulently throw out thousands of African-American votes. 5/17
And yes there are even more ways that the new voter suppression law is designed to make voting harder in Georgia: You can still vote absentee for any reason, but now it’s illegal for officials to send absentee applications to every voter. 6/17
The law also reduces how much time a voter has to request a ballot, and blocks any organizations that help people get absentee ballots. It also requires every absentee voter to jump through extra hoops that a voter at the polls does NOT have to. 7/17
The new law sets up requirements for early voting—like not allowing it after 5 pm—that make it harder for working people to vote. It also eliminates mobile voting stations, except in an emergency—like hurricanes or alien invasion—and only if the governor says to do it. 8/17
Also puts huge limits on local officials allowing extra “drop boxes” for absentee ballots, another way of increasing the odds of long long lines at the regular polls. 9/17
Altogether, the law’s discourage absentee voting and make early voting less effective. The intent seems to be causing much much longer & slower lines at the polls, which, again, will mean large numbers of working class, elderly, and sick voters who just give up and go home. 10/17
@douglasblackmon Their goal is to cause any issue they can in terms of increasing the wait time and length of lines. Measure that do that are always aimed at more urban areas, the areas that vote against republicans.