Opponents have decried Georgia’s new voting law as designed to disenfranchise minority voters, while supporters argue it expands voting rights.
Corporations like Delta Airlines, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola have spoken out publicly against the measure and Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver.
So, which is it? Is it “Jim Crow on steroids,” as President Joseph R. Biden said last week, or does it expand voting access, as per Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp?
Here, Marc Meredith, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, shares five things to know about the new law:
1. The process of mail balloting changed but not as dramatically as it could have