Georgia’s new voting law triggers legal challenges
Plaintiffs say the state’s election overhaul discriminates against black voters
IN JANUARY, DAYS after a record turnout in Georgia sent two Democrats to the Senate, Alice O’Lenick, the Republican chair of the Gwinnett County elections board, warned that she would not let the legislature “end this session without changing some of these laws…They’ve got to change the major parts of them so that we at least have a shot at winning.” She got her wish on March 25th, when Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican governor, enacted an overhaul of the state’s voting rules.
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