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State lawmakers continued to make major, controversial moves this week at the Capitol in Atlanta: On Monday, a bill overhauling many of the ways Georgians vote passed the state House of Representatives along party lines. HB 531 adds additional ID requirements for absentee ballots and places limitations on the use of absentee ballot drop boxes. It also bans private funding of election operations, among other items. Also this week, the House judicial committee took the first steps in repealing Georgia’s Civil War-era citizen’s arrest law.  The men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery last year argued they were conducting a citizen’s arrest when they chased and shot him while he was jogging.  The bill’s Republican sponsor said Georgia would be one of the first states to repeal a citizen’s arrest law. HB 479 now goes to the full House for a vote.

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