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Election bills have issues, local officials say
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March 10, 2021, 3:18 PM·5 min read
Mar. 10 Local elections personnel have doubts about some of the proposed changes to election law currently under consideration in the Georgia General Assembly.
During a Tuesday meeting of the Glynn County Board of Elections, Elections and Registration Supervisor Chris Channell explained some of his reservations about multiple state House and Senate Bills dealing with election law.
One Georgia House bill proposing changes to voting law would outlaw the use of drop boxes as they were used in the 2020 election cycle, he said. Among them is a limit on the use of absentee ballot drop boxes.
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After a failed attempt by some Republicans to overturn Georgia s thrice-counted certified election results that gave President Joe Biden a victory, GOP lawmakers in the state Senate have filed a barrage of bills that would add more barriers to the ballot box for many voters.
If all of the proposals announced by Senate Republican leadership Monday became law, future elections would look dramatically different.
Only a small subset of Georgians would be eligible to vote absentee by mail, and those that do qualify would have to submit some sort of photo ID with their application either online or on paper. They would not be allowed to get an application from outside groups, and could only return ballots through the mail or deliver in person to the county elections office. If someone moves to Georgia, or moves within the state, they would have to remember to opt in to having the Department of Driver Services update their voter registratio