(AURN News) — Georgia Democrats are pushing back against what they describe as coordinated efforts to restrict voting access.
On Tuesday, they introduced the Henry McNeal Turner Voting Rights Act, a state-level bill designed to protect Black voters and other communities of color from what supporters describe as years of targeted suppression.
The proposal would require counties with a documented history of racial discrimination to obtain approval before changing voting rules. It would expand language access, ban vote dilution and allow voters and local governments to sue in state courts if discrimination occurs.
In late January, the Trump administration launched a federal probe into Fulton County’s election operations tied to 2020 claims that courts have repeatedly rejected. Some Republican lawmakers are now calling for the state election board to take control of Fulton County elections ahead of the midterm elections.
Georgia’s SB 202, passed in 2021, shortened runoff timelines, added new ID requirements for absentee ballots and empowered the state to intervene in local election boards.
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