Georgia's Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 (SB 202) has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state.

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NEW: Four years after Georgia Republicans passed one of the nation's most restrictive voting laws, new evidence shows the law has created increased barriers for over 1.6 million registered voters, with minority voters bearing the biggest brunt.

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-- Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) Oct 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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... Four years after Georgia Republicans passed one of the nation's most restrictive voting laws, new evidence shows the law has created increased barriers for over 1.6 million registered voters, with minority voters bearing the biggest brunt. ...

So, the law seems to be working as the Republicans intended it to work?

U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org

...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."

The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."

The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....

[emphasis mine]

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-22 06:41 PM