{"id":116234,"date":"2021-02-02T22:47:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T03:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116234"},"modified":"2021-02-02T23:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T04:31:21","slug":"georgia-republican-state-senators-propose-bills-to-end-no-excuse-mail-voting-automatic-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-republican-state-senators-propose-bills-to-end-no-excuse-mail-voting-automatic-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Republican State Senators Propose Bills to End No-excuse Mail Voting, Automatic Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-republican-state-senators-propose-bills-to-end-no-excuse-mail-voting-automatic-registration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A group of Republican state senators introduced a series of bills on Feb. 1 that would amend the Peach State\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">election<\/a>\u00a0laws to end statewide vote-by-mail, the use of ballot drop boxes, and automatic voter registration.<\/p>\n<p>The package of eight bills also includes a measure that would require voters to provide a copy of their identification or driver\u2019s license when applying for an absentee ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The bills represent a major overhaul of the way\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a>\u00a0runs its elections after Republicans lost the presidential election and two special elections for the U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a>. Then-President Donald Trump had challenged the validity of the outcome of the presidential election in the state. Two recounts failed to turn up any significant irregularities and several court challenges failed to deliver results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to restore confidence in the ballot box. When people lose confidence in the ballot box they ultimately lose confidence in their government,\u201d Senate President Pro Tem Butch Miller (R-Gainesville) said of the bills, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/ga-bills-would-end-no-excuse-absentee-voting-automatic-registration\/OBTWL3M6MJH25MI56XGNNUODPY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>. \u201cOur goal is to be sure every vote is accounted for, accurate and legal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/legislation\/59219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One<\/a>\u00a0of the bills prohibits the use of ballot drop boxes as a mode of collection and delivery of absentee ballots.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/legislation\/59216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another<\/a>\u00a0bill would require voters to submit a copy of their driver\u2019s license; Voters who forget to include a photocopy will be notified and given a chance to correct the problem. And a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/legislation\/59220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separate bill<\/a>\u00a0would prohibit new Georgia residents who voted in another state during the general election from voting in runoff elections.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed bills would also expand poll watcher access, ban non-profits from mailing absentee ballots to voters, and mandate regular updates to election officials about voters who died.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democrats used a familiar line of attack against the measures, lumping in each of the proposed changes in the \u201cvoter suppression\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s voter suppression. If you restrict access, then people get discouraged and they don\u2019t vote. They don\u2019t come back,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Gloria Butler (D-Stone Mountain) told the Journal. \u201cWe have to make the argument that it\u2019s a good process. People were able to vote, and they voted in record numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.3 million people in Georgia cast absentee ballots ahead of the November 2020 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Republican state senators introduced a series of bills on Feb. 1 that would amend the Peach State&#8217;s election laws to end statewide vote-by-mail, the use of ballot &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3905,4977,4978,3911,3709,3772],"class_list":["post-116234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bills","tag-georgia","tag-propose","tag-republican","tag-senators","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}