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Opinions | Georgia’s voter suppression laws betray the promise of Reconstruction Robert Levine © Matthew Dae Smith/AP A voting rights demonstration outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing. In Georgia, faith leaders are asking corporate executives to condemn laws restricting voting access or face a boycott. In a recent interview, Georgia’s Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) blamed his state’s new voting rights restrictions on the shadow cast by former president Donald Trump and his acolyte Rudolph W. Giuliani. Their false claims of election fraud, he said, spread misinformation and created the momentum for the restrictions that became law. Duncan may be correct about the precipitating cause, but Georgia has a longer history of suppressing access to the ballot. And this history reveals a fundamental truth. The new election laws were created almost exclusively by White people with a calculated design to deprive Black Georgians of their fundamental right of citizen

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