The legislation, aimed at giving states better access to voter data and disincentivizing non-citizen voting in local elections, is likely dead in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Critics said the Georgia law would make it harder to vote and disproportionately disenfranchise people of color. On Monday, the sponsor of the new House Republican bill, Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wisc., said that was a false narrative because voter turnout increased between 2020 and 2022. Anby the Brennan Center for Justice found that while overall voter turnout increased, so did the gap between white and nonwhite turnout.
“This legislation is the most substantive and conservative election integrity legislation that will come before the House in over a generation,” Steil said. New York Rep. Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the committee, criticized Republicans for holding up Georgia’s SB 202 voting law as a model, saying it was only enacted because former President Trump lost the state of Georgia in 2020.
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