The Capitol insurrection isn’t over. In Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country, the assault on American democracy that began on January 6 rages on.In Georgia, the GOP has moved to end the absentee voting process that produced record turnout in 2020. Nevermind that investigations and independent analyses found no evidence of voter fraud. Nevermind that it was the Republican legislature that passed absentee voting rules in the first place, or that until this past election, more Republicans voted absentee than Democrats or Independents.
Peach State Republicans are specifically targeting low-income Black and Latino communities. Knowing that access to printers is scarcer in poorer neighborhoods, they are moving to require voters mail in print copies of government ID—twice—in order to receive and return a ballot.
