From Stacy on twitter:
#SB202 suppresses voters, criminalizes compassion & seizes election authority from local + state officials. In 11 years, I never witnessed a massive bill approved at such speed and signed in such desperation. This wasn’t efficiency or principle. This is cowardice.
Georgia Republicans want to hide their shameful actions from public scrutiny. It’s Jim Crow in a suit + tie: cutting off access, adding restrictions, encouraging more “show me your papers” actions to challenge a citizen’s right to vote. Facially neutral but racially targeted.
GOP legislators gave themselves the right to takeover local elections & throw out results - what they tried and failed to do in MI. They raised costs for taxpayers and forbid counties from accepting funds to cover the bill. They criminalize free water & food for those in line.
The bolded parts are insane of course. If and when there is ever another close election in GA with a Dem getting more votes, this bill ensures the GOP can overthrow the result.
Time to abolish the filibuster and go nuclear with a federal voting rights law. The GOP is currently expanding voter suppression everywhere. The minority-rule party wants a smaller minority to still be able to rule.