Georgia GOP efforts to curtail voting stink
In the November 2020 general election and again in the January 2021, special run-off elections Georgians made history by voting turnout in greater numbers than ever before. Most of us would consider this to be excellent news, but apparently the Republicans who currently control the state legislature in Atlanta found it troubling, because a number of bills designed to limit early voting, require onerous extra steps for absentee voting, and to eliminate the drop boxes that made voting more convenient have been introduced in the General Assembly.
The Republicans who have introduced these bills all claim they are efforts to eliminate vote fraud. Yet none of them can furnish any examples of fraudulent voting, and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office (which is held by another Republican) insists that our elections are honest.
Therefore there can be only one real reason for these bills: to make it harder to vote in Georgia. That makes me wonder why politicians would want to keep people from voting. Are they afraid they will lose if too many people vote? Or are they concerned that too many of the “wrong sort” of people are voting?
David Cofield