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This video is about Party of Disenfranchisement: Republicans Introduce “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” in Georgia
Summary:
In between the trying times, when thousands of Americans were already struggling to vote in one way or another, Georgia passed a voting law that would restrict Georgian’s right to vote.
Without any legislative discussion, the Georgian Republican Governor Brian Kemp has signed a law, the Election Integrity Act of 2021, behind closed doors.
The signing of the Georgia voting law is the first legislative landmark of Republicans after Trump’s defeat and his baseless rhetoric of election fraud.
Experts believe that it will unanimously disenfranchise people of color who were predominantly inclined towards Democrats.
President Joe Biden has already denounced the bill, terming it “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.”
The Republican-signed law will criminalize “any money or gifts, including, but not limited to, food and drink,” to people waiting in line to vote.
While some people believe that distributing food and drinks was a strategy used by the political dominators to influence the decisions of the voters, it seems to be a falsified approach.
In reality, it was often used as a humanitarian gesture where edibles and drinks were provided to those waiting in line, as those queues lasted for hours at times, and it became next to impossible for people to stand there without any food intake.
This results in people leaving the queues early without voting, resulting in the decreased turnouts.
Currently, most of the administrative work in Georgia’s elections is done by 159 counties represented all over Georgia.
In the newly proposed Georgia voting law, the State Election Board is entrusted with powers to exercise its authority in the county election offices.
This is a game-changing move, as the state offices would be able to remove the local offices or even change the officials appointed there.
As of now, the State Election Board is flooded with Republicans, which would provide them a favorable playing field to appoint the local officers according to their wishes.
From now on, Republicans will be influencing the elections to an unprecedented extent, including the election certification process, which they tried to engineer heavily after Trump’s defeat in the election.
Fulton County would be an automatic choice for Republicans in this mission of voter suppression, as they would leave no stone unturned to influence this Democratic-dominated county.
Georgia is the only state currently allowing runoff elections between the top two contenders in the polls in case of anyone failing to win a simple majority.
As per the previous law, the runoffs were conducted after nine weeks of the general elections, but this Georgia voting law has reduced this time to four weeks.
Earlier elections would mean less mail-in voting, hence minimizing the participation of the general public in the most important discourse of democracy.

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