What are the differences between the two bills, which elements are actually essential, and which might be sacrificed if it meant passage in the Senate?
Voter ID, as it is commonly called, is supported by a vast majority of the American people.
According to a recent article on Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website, “voter ID laws which Republicans have pushed for years are quite popular in general. In another national poll out this week from Selzer & Co./Grinnell College, 56 percent of adults favored keeping laws that require people to show a photo ID before voting, while just 36 percent wanted to eliminate them. And this isn’t an opinion Americans suddenly adopted amid 2020’s specious claims of voter fraud. In fall 2018, the Pew Research Center found that 76 percent of Americans favored requiring everyone to show a government-issued photo ID in order to vote, versus only 23 percent who opposed it.”
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Atlanta, March 2, 2021 – The House of Representatives in the Georgia State Legislature voted on House Bill 531 (HB 531), widely known as anti-voting omnibus bill. The Georgia Assembly voted 97-72 to pass HB 531, and the bill will now move onto the Senate floor. Based on its most recent published copy, HB 531 […]