Today, we sued Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on behalf of a diverse coalition of faith and civic engagement organizations to block the implementation of SB 202.

Senate Bill 202, recently signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp, is a continuation of Georgia’s heinous history of voter suppression aimed at diminishing the political power of people of color. The bill not only erects new barriers to voting that will disproportionately disenfranchise Black and Brown Georgians, but also takes aim at the engines of democracy that helped make unprecedented change in 2020: the Black Church and the civic organizations serving the Latinx community.

If implemented, the new law would:

• Ban mobile polling places effectively used to help Black and Brown communities vote safely during the pandemic,
• Allow election officials to eliminate Sunday voting, the day in which many Black churches host Souls to the Polls and Soy Georgia events,
• Makes it harder for Georgians with disabilities to vote
• And criminalize providing food and water to those waiting in long lines, a common practice employed by the plaintiffs.

In partnership with the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, Mijente, GA Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GHLAR), Faith in Action Georgia, and a coalition of Black churches, we are litigating to thwart the implementation of the new law.

Standing together in unity, our coalition refuses to be silenced. We will continue to raise our voices to fight for free, fair and accessible elections.

Read our full complaint to learn how SB 202 would negatively impact the voter engagement work of our partners.

Watch our morning press conference explaining the lawsuit and hear directly from our partners on this immoral, unjust and unconstitutional law.

Join the conversation online using #SB202 to condemn this new law.

In Solidarity,

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