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Wed Mar 16, 2022, 12:33 AM Mar 2022

Georgia lawmakers follow Florida to advance Republican-backed bill to police elections

By Reuters
Published March 15, 2022

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By Joseph Ax

Republican lawmakers in Georgia on Tuesday advanced a bill expanding law enforcement's power to investigate election fraud, adding to U.S. conservatives' push for more restrictive voting laws after former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.

Georgia's House of Representatives approved the legislation on a largely party-line vote of 98-73, sending it to the state Senate, less than a week after Florida's Republican-controlled legislature passed a measure to create a first-of-its-kind election police force in that state.

Voting rights groups and Democrats in both states say the legislation is intended to appease Trump and his supporters despite the fact that election fraud is exceedingly rare in the United States.

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-election-police-georgia/

You know they do this shit in third world countries .....and we have right now two senators letting this shit happen, because two bills are being filibustered ....guess who

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