After the GOP lost Georgia in the 2020 presidential election, along with both of their U.S. Senate seats, Republicans in the state quickly passed a law restricting the right to vote throughout the state.

 

While in 2020 voters could request a mail-in ballot up until the Friday before Election Day, under the new law, voters must request their ballot no later than 11 days before an election.

 

Republicans then tested this law in the very low-key November 2021 municipal elections. A recent analysis showed that more than half of the mail-in ballot requests were rejected because they arrived after the state’s newly imposed deadline.

 

By shortening the amount of time voters have to request their ballot, and rejecting them for being late, the law makes voting more burdensome. As a result, some people may not vote at all, and that is exactly how voter suppression works.

 

When the Democratic majority took control of the U.S. House, we made sure to pass bills that protect the ballot box – and unsurprisingly, no Republicans backed us up. Now with the midterm election months away, we are in danger of losing that majority – but we can and will fight back. Will you contribute whatever you can today so that my team and I have the resources to continue defending the ballot box?

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