Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp has signed into law a draconian voter suppression law which would among other things strip the Secretary of State of his authority to oversee elections and put it into the hands of the state legislature. The Georgia legislature would also have the authority to suspend local and county election boards.
In other words if a Democrat wins in a certain county and Republicans don't like the result they can replace that county's election board. If Raphael Warnock is re-elected in 2022 then the Republican controlled legislature can overturn that result if it feels like it. If Joe Biden should beat Donald Trump in Georgia again in 2024, the state legislature will find the votes for Trump that Brad Raffensperger wouldn't find because there were none to find.
Republicans can scream fraud and election integrity all they want. The reason Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere want to change the rules is because they are losing elections and cannot gain voters through the power of persuasion.
If that wasn't bad enough there is also the spectacle of a duly elected African-American female state legislator being arrested for knocking on a door.
The Senate is deliberating over the Fore The People Act which would prevent these shenanigans, but West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is the lone Democratic holdout. In which case, the only viable remedy to this nonsense is through the courts.
There might be relief down the line. But here in Georgia, the GOP has turned the Peach State into a Banana Republic.
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