Monday, July 26, 2021

‘We’re f---ed’: Dems fear turnout catastrophe from GOP voting laws

Politico reports:
After Georgia Republicans passed a restrictive voting law in March, Democrats here began doing the math.
There's more:
The state’s new voter I.D. requirement for mail-in ballots could affect the more than 270,000 Georgians lacking identification. The provision cutting the number of ballot drop boxes could affect hundreds of thousands of voters who cast absentee ballots that way in 2020 — and that’s just in the populous Atlanta suburbs alone.
Much more:
It didn’t take long before the implications became clear to party officials and voting rights activists. In a state that Joe Biden carried by fewer than 12,000 votes last year, the new law stood to wipe out many of the party’s hard-fought gains — and put them at a decisive disadvantage.
An article worth your time.