Georgia GOP Declared 'Open Season' On Black Voting Rights, Rep. Hank Johnson Says
Georgia Democrats say state-level Republicans are furiously introducing strict new voting legislation, much of which critics say is intended to reduce the record Black turnout which elevated President Joe Biden in November.
Representative Hank Johnson of Atlanta is among several House Democrats who are accusing Georgia Republicans of introducing new "voter integrity" bills which aim to end traditional get-out-the-vote campaigns in Black communities. Republicans, who control both chambers of the state General Assembly and the governor's office, proposed a bill last week which would eliminate early voting on Sundays — a move Black church leaders say is aimed squarely at their recent efforts to boost voter turnout. Driving all-time record turnout in minority communities across the state, more than 4 million Georgia voters cast early or absentee ballots in the 2020 general election.
One Republican who was ousted in part by Georgia voter turnout efforts, former Senator Kelly Loeffler, announced Monday she is starting a rival voting rights group which seeks to counter-act Abrams. Loeffler and her fellow GOP incumbent, former Georgia Senator David Perdue, were both defeated by Democrats in January 2021.
"If left to their own devices, Republicans will try to limit the ability of minority voters to exercise their fundamental right to vote," said Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who co-sponsored a federal election standards bill which Republicans have labeled "overreach."
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Abrams group launches ad campaign against Georgia voting restrictions
Former Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams' group Fair Fight Action is launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign taking aim at elections bills Republicans have filed in recent weeks that critics say would make it more difficult to vote in the Peach State.
A 30-second ad released by the voting rights organization on Tuesday specifically calls out measures recently filed by Republicans in the state that would place further restrictions on voting by mail.
"Georgians of both parties have voted by mail for decades. Almost half a million Georgia Republicans did it just last year. The GOP knows voting by mail works, it was their idea," the ad states.
"It's how Republicans have been winning Florida. But now, the same Georgia politicians who passed these laws want to make voting harder. That means longer lines, higher taxes, harder for you. Tell Georgia politicians: don't mess with Georgia's voting laws," it
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