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Sun May 12, 2024, 07:14 AM May 2024

Georgia Promised to Fix How Voter Challenges Are Handled. A New Law Could Make the Problem Worse

https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-law-could-lead-to-more-voter-suppression

Georgia Promised to Fix How Voter Challenges Are Handled. A New Law Could Make the Problem Worse.

SB 189, which goes into effect in July, will give Georgia residents more time to contest the eligibility of fellow citizens’ inclusion on voter rolls and make it easier to use questionable evidence in those challenges.

by Doug Bock Clark
May 10, 11 a.m. EDT

Ten months after Georgia officials said they would take steps to ensure that counties were correctly handling massive numbers of challenges to voter registrations, neither the secretary of state’s office nor the State Election Board has done so.

In July 2023, ProPublica reported that election officials in multiple Georgia counties were handling citizens’ challenges to voter registrations in different ways, with some potentially violating the National Voter Registration Act.

Instead of fixing the problem, the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature passed SB 189 at the end of March. The bill’s authors claim that it will help prevent voting fraud, while voting rights advocates warn that it could make the issue worse. Gov. Brian Kemp signed it into law on Monday.

“I see this as being pro-America, pro-accuracy, pro-transparency and pro-election integrity,” state Rep. John LaHood said of the bill, which he worked to help pass. “I don’t see it being” about voter suppression “whatsoever.”

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Georgia Promised to Fix How Voter Challenges Are Handled. A New Law Could Make the Problem Worse (Original Post) sl8 May 2024 OP
Sounds like LaHood has removed his LaHood and is talking 'their' language. South GA 'family man' and Krisschinn CurtEastPoint May 2024 #1
That's the point. Republicans have to disqualify as many Democratic votes as possible to win. Lonestarblue May 2024 #2

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1. Sounds like LaHood has removed his LaHood and is talking 'their' language. South GA 'family man' and Krisschinn
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:38 AM
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