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Joe Biden has been calling SB 202, the law in Georgia designed to secure elections from fraud, Jim Crow. The example he gives in speeches is that people are not allowed to have food and water at the polls. That is not true, and it has nothing to do with SB 202....

The legislation leaves out critical election security provisions that had been in two omnibus bills that moved through the Georgia House and Senate in March. Last Thursday, Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” Senate Bill 202, into law. The 95-page bill adds ID requirements for mail-in ballots, halts the acceptance of absentee ballots within 11 days of an election, and prohibits third-parties from providing gifts to voters waiting in line at a polling place.“Significant reforms to our state elections were needed,” Kemp said upon signing the bill. “There’s no doubt there were many alarming...

Republican legislators in Sacramento are crying foul over an eleventh-hour push to limit future initiatives to November general elections. But the idea behind the union-backed legislation doesn't seem so bad to a majority of GOP voters, according to a new Field Poll. Registered Republicans supported the proposed change by a 15-point margin, 52 percent to 37 percent. Overall, 56 percent of voters back the proposal, which was approved by the Legislature and is now awaiting action by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.