Posted on 02/24/2021 10:15:53 AM PST by Red Badger
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Senate on Tuesday pushed through the first batch of what could be a raft of restrictive voting measures Republican lawmakers say will safeguard voting but Democrats decry as based on a lie and aimed at overturning their party's recent electoral success in Georgia.
The most important measure passed was Senate Bill 67, which carried on a largely party-line 35-18 vote. It would require that a voter include their driver’s license number, other state identification number or a photocopy of an approved ID when applying for an absentee ballot. That would replace the current process of signature verification, one of the key elements former President Donald Trump and others attacked following Trump's November loss in Georgia.
“It’s not about disenfranchising voters. It’s not about overly burdening the electorate. It’s about efficiency, integrity, allowing the Georgia public to have confidence in the vote,” said Sen. Larry Walker, a Perry Republican who sponsored Senate Bill 67.
The bills move to the House for more debate.
Supporters said anyone who votes in person in Georgia has to show identification, and that absentee voters should do the same. Walker said submitting an identification would work for 97% of voters and said the other 3% could vote in person, saying he wanted to get county elections “out of the middle” of verifying signatures.
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AP just CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES................................
Will be struck down by a Federal judge on October 2022.
No doubt..................
Exactly.
Restricting voters to those who are legal is a sure sign of White Supremacy
What’s the point when a governor can just change the law by fiat
Closing the barn door after all the horses have escaped......
Will be struck down by a Federal judge on October 2022.
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Probably sooner. They wont want to wait to bring a case against this, and the activist judges jump on it.
More illegal executive actions from the secretary of state and others will probably come in October of 2022.
It’s a start, but won’t make it through.
Laws are only for honest people not democrats.
It’s the mail-in ballots, you morons!!
No doubt by 2022 they expect to have fully consolidated the Left in government power, and will no longer worry about “fair” elections.
Likely all efforts to reform Georgia voting laws will immediately be taken to Stacey Abrams’ sister (who’s a judge) and be blocked.
The GOP-e could have done this decades ago.
Unlikely its going to go anywhere.
It wouldn’t be stopped if the Governor would sign it, but he was involved in the Election steal.
They must have invested in the phony ID market.
My thoughts exactly. Funny how we’ve come to recognize elements of Leftist narrative construct.
Laws???? Stacey Abrams and her ilk aren’t worried about laws!!!
Georgia really gives the South a bad name when it comes to verifiable election results. And the republicans in that state aren’t any different than the dems.
Why not get rid of absentee voting and mail in voting period, unless you are out of the country in the military, foreign service, or if you’re living abroad etc.
You vote in person during early voting otherwise.
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