Lawsuit says Georgia election law silences Asian American voters
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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Crowds gather outside the Georgia State Capitol on Saturday to protest violence targeting Asian Americans after eight people were killed at Atlanta-area spas. (Photo: Brooke Zauner/FOX 5 Atlanta)
ATLANTA - A lawsuit filed by Asian American advocacy groups claims SB 202, an election reform bill signed into law on March 25, makes changes intended to silence Asian American voters, according to a statement from Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta.
The bill refers to several changes to Georgia law including a shorter window to apply for absentee ballots, changes to drop box access from the 2020 election and prevention of mailing absentee ballot applications to registered voters as unconstitutional barriers that restrict voter access and strain advocacy groups.
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April 4th, 2021
By Maya J. Carter
It no longer comes to a surprise this day and age that the GOP flips and flops like a trout swimming upstream. Now, every time one turns on the news, the level of their hypocrisy only heightens. It is almost as if they are outdoing themselves in a race to oblivion regarding their principles and standards.
The latest display of mind-boggling GOP sanctimony comes at the expense of their supposed besties…corporations. After all, are they not the party that touts the protection of “corporate personhood” – essentially that corporations are people, too? The GOP usually comes quicker to the defense of corporations than a Florida tax collector friend of Congressman Matt Gaetz can display his tax collector badge to write up a traffic warning. This is particularly true when corporations take stances on issues regarding religious rights, unlimited financial donations to GOP coffers, and taxation, among other things benefiting the right.
A Republican congresswoman has called out Major League Baseball for moving an All-Star game out of Georgia over its controversial new voter-ID law - while still requiring fans to show photo identification cards to pick up tickets.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace suggested the league s ticket policy was hypocritical given its opposition to the law, which will require voters to provide a state ID number on their absentee ballot. Hey @MLB, this you? Rep. Mace wrote, along with a screenshot of the Will Call policy at mlb.com.
The official policy states: Group and hospitality tickets left at Will Call will be held under one person s name, and that person will need a picture ID to pick up their tickets.
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