Georgia has been rocked by furious battles over election laws ever since Democrat Stacey Abrams' narrow loss to Republican Brian Kemp in the 2018 governor's race. Now, with only months to go before a likely rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden, Georgia is tinkering with state election laws once again.
Georgia has been rocked by furious battles over election laws ever since Democrat Stacey Abrams ' narrow loss to Republican Brian Kemp in the 2018 governor's race. The statewide brawl burst into the national consciousness in 2021, when Republicans — under pressure from GOP activists who pushed Donald Trump's false claims that he lost the 2020 election because of widespread fraud — rammed through a sprawling law placing new restrictions on voters.
Now, with only months to go before a likely rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden, Georgia is tinkering with state election laws once again. Just last week, Republican lawmakers passed a new bill that would allow the removal of people from the voting rolls through challenges to voter eligibility. It awaits Kemp's signature or veto. Supporters say such challenges prevent fraud by rooting out duplicate records and removing voters who have moved out of stat
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