Feb 25, 2021
A Donald Trump supporter protests on the steps of the Georgia State Capitol on Nov. 7 after it was announced that Joe Biden had won the presidential election.Riley Bunch
ATLANTA â After historic turnout in both the general election and Jan. 5 Senate runoffs, Republican state lawmakers are pushing a flood of restrictive voting bills citing public âperceptionâ that the elections were riddled with fraud.
GOP lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills that target absentee ballot voting after the increased use of mail-in ballots during the pandemic helped Democrats grab both the presidential vote in Georgia and two U.S. Senate seats.
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25 Feb 2021
The Georgia State Senate passed a bill Tuesday requiring voters in the state to present a photo ID prior to receiving an absentee ballot.
The vote was 35 to 18, with Democrats united in opposition, as GPB (Georgia Public Broadcasting) News reported:
Majority Caucus Vice Chair Sen. Larry Walker (R-Perry) sponsored the bill and said it would improve security and efficiency of the absentee process.
“It’s not about disenfranchising voters, it’s not about overly burdening the electorate,” he said. “It is about efficiency and security and election integrity and allowing the Georgia public to have confidence in the vote.”
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel reacts to the impeachment trial against President Trump.
EXCLUSIVE: The Republican National Committee is aggressively engaging with state and local election officials, requesting information about what states are doing to clean up their voter rolls as part of the GOP s broader effort to restore confidence in election systems and promote transparency and election integrity.
The RNC launched a new initiative to bolster election integrity and will begin issuing public records requests to election officials across the country, inquiring on a variety of election administration practices in states like Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, California and Georgia.