Georgia GOP called "shameless" for trying to use new voting law to oust local election officials

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Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this year signed SB 202, a law that not only restricts ballot access but allows state officials to temporarily take over county election boards. This has raised concerns about potential Republican election subversion after the party lost the presidential race and both U.S. Senate elections in the state amid record voter turnout. Republican lawmakers wasted no time using the law to target election officials in Fulton County, which includes most of of the city of Atlanta and has a population of more than a million people, about 44% of them Black. President Biden won 72.6% of the vote in Fulton County, outperforming Hillary Clinton's 2016 total by 83,000 votes. The county has been the a primary target of former President Donald Trump's false election claims and multiple lawsuits filed by his supporters, although there has been no evidence of fraud or misconduct.

Republicans representing the county in the state legislature called for a performance review of the country's election board in July, which Scott Hogan, the head of the state Democratic Party, decried as a "shameless Republican power grab designed to suppress voters and inject partisan politics into our elections."

"It appears that they would like to take over the county board of elections," Aunna Dennis, the executive director of Common Cause Georgia, said in an interview with Salon, calling the move part of a "coordinated strategy" that represents Republican "opposition to, basically, democracy."

The misinformation and lawsuits preceding the review show that there was "clearly partisan motive" on the part of Republicans, Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia, said in an interview with Salon.

"The predicted changes to Georgia's electorate are finally coming to fruition," he said, noting that the 2020 election was likely the first time that urban Georgia had outvoted rural Georgia. "Finally there's now proof that the state is changing and it's going to be harder for Republicans. Where is the single biggest bastion of Democratic voters? Well, it's in Fulton County."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-gop-called-shameless-for-trying-to-use-new-voting-law-to-oust-local-election-officials/ar-AAO5UPl?ocid=msedgntp

[Scrivener7]

1. Gosh. We called them shameless? That'll stop them for sure.

[dlk]

3. This is their endgame

Republicans love nothing more than cheating and stealing their way into power. We underestimate them at our peril.

[calimary]

4. And unfortunately, our side tends to do that A LOT.

I don’t know when that will stop, or when our side will fully wake up. Still WAY too much of giving the bad guys the “benefit of the doubt.” When none is deserved, or earned.

[pandr32]

5. All to claim fair treatment and due process

We color inside the lines perfectly, while they scribble all over the page. No-one can see our nice, neat work anymore, nor tell what the picture was in the first place.

[calimary]

6. That's a great metaphor, pandr32!

[pandr32]

7. Thank you

I liked your comment.

[crickets]

8. K&R for visibility.