[ April 25, 2024 ]
Outraged Democrats (criminals) are protesting. Of course. Free and fair elections are are the enemy.
Next, oust Kemp.
Georgia House Passes Omnibus Election Reform Bill
By Mimi Nguyen Ly, The Epoch Times, March 1, 2021:
Story continues below advertisementGeorgia’s House of Representatives passed an omnibus bill that would reform a range of election rules, including over absentee voting, voter ID for absentee voting, time limits for voting, and more.
The 66-page bill, HB 531 (pdf) passed the Republican majority chamber on a party line vote of 97-72 and is headed to the state Senate for further debate.
State Rep. Barry Fleming, a Republican, the main sponsor of the HB 531 bill, said that the proposal was designed to restore voters’ confidence in Georgia’s election system following the 2020 presidential election, which saw numerous allegations of voting irregularities and allegations of election fraud.
Separately, the GOP-majority Senate on Feb. 23 introduced its own version of an omnibus election reform bill, SB 241 (pdf) that has some overlap with HB 531. One difference is that the Senate bill would eliminate no-excuse absentee voting, something that has been allowed in Georgia since 2005, whereas the House bill would still allow no-excuse absentee voting.
Absentee Ballots
The proposed HB 531, first introduced on Feb. 18, sets up multiple requirements for absentee ballots, including a number of voter identification requirements in replacement of the state’s current signature match process.
Voters would have to submit their driver’s license number, their state identification card, or the last four digits of their Social Security number on the ballot envelope. If the voter lacks a government ID, the bill requires a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter.
Under the new bill, voters would be able to request an absentee ballot up to 78 days before the election, instead of the current 180 days. The absentee ballots and early votes must be received by 11 days prior to the election day.
The government, including election officials, would not be allowed to mail out unsolicited applications for absentee ballots to voters under the bill. Only authorized relatives or persons signing as helping a voter who is illiterate or physically disabled may apply on behalf of another for an absentee ballot application .
Election officials also must not send out absentee ballots until four weeks prior to the election.
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Other Requirements
To help reduce Georgia’s runoff period to four weeks, instead of nine weeks as experienced by the state in the Jan. 2 runoff elections for two Senate seats, military and overseas voters would be offered ranked choice voting.
Drop boxes would still be allowed under the new bill but subject to a number of restrictions. There would be a limited number of drop boxes, where every county would have at least one drop box but no more than one per 100,000 active voters or one for each early voting site. Any given drop box must be located at the office of the board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk, or indoors at an early voting site. The drop boxes are only open when those sites are open and be under constant surveillance “by an election official or his or her designee, law enforcement official, or licensed security guard.”
The proposed legislation would change Georgia’s early voting period to business hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting about three weeks before election day, and registrars would have the option to extend voting hours to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The bill would also limit weekend voting to the second Saturday before the election. Counties can also choose the third Saturday or third Sunday before election day as another weekend day.
The HB 531 will no longer count any provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct—a change from the current law, which stipulates that even if the ballot was cast in the wrong precinct, election officials can count the votes for races in which the voter was entitled to vote.
Per the bill, ballots would be required to be printed on “security paper that incorporates features which can be used to authenticate the ballot as an official ballot but which do not make the ballot identifiable to a particular elector.“
Election superintendents and boards of registrars are not allowed to accept any “funding, grants, or gifts from any source other than from the governing authority of the county or municipality, the State of Georgia, or the federal government,” under the bill.
Among other voting requirements, the bill also prohibits people to solicit votes, distribute or show any campaign material, or provide money or gifts—including food and drink—within 25 feet of voters standing in line at any polling place, and within 150 feet of any polling place.
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30 Comments
3 years ago
TOO F**KING LATE!!!!
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
‘lil joey biden IS NOT MY PRESIDENT. DEMOCRATS ARE domestic TERRORISTS.
3 years ago
Reply to
Nabi Rasch
I recently found out my neighbor, a lifelong republican, voted for Joe Biden. This would have never happened if he was still alive.
3 years ago
Let’s pass this nation wide
3 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
Nationwide would be a tough sell with a democrat majority house of representatives and an effectively democrat controlled senate. However there are still republican controlled state legislatures.
The key as I see it will be to get the swing states to clean up their election process before the 2022 midterm elections and then, fingers crossed, retake the house. If those things don’t happen it will get very bad.
It could be worse. It could be raining.
3 years ago
Another range of legislated measures election officials and the courts can simply ignore
3 years ago
Reply to
peter beach
Yer right–the legal community is long corrupted and broken and yet it continues to have the last word. The US won’t be the 1st or the last nation to be killed by its own lawyers.
3 years ago
this doesn’t mean crap if the same “people” are running things.
3 years ago
aka the Put Stacey Abrams out of Business Bill.
3 years ago
aka the Put Stacey Abrams out of Business Bill.
3 years ago
What difference will any of this make? When the dems violate these new rules, and they will because that’s what they do, the repugs still won’t have the stones to enforce the law and hold the criminals accountable.
3 years ago
Reply to
Nabi Rasch
From your replies you sound EXACTLY like a foreign troll, even worse, like a teen drop out.
3 years ago
Who gets to count the votes and who gets to watch them?
3 years ago
Reply to
TN Patriot
The most politically competent types. It’s a perpetual competition, don’t you know?
3 years ago
What does Kemp, Reffensberger and Gabe Sterling have to say on this?
3 years ago
Mail in ballots need to be strictly limited and likely monitored since they defy one of the basics of democracy–the guaranteed secret ballot.
3 years ago
“Governor” Stacey Abrams will figure out how to easily get around this bill as easily as her extra-large self gets around from KFC to Popeye’s to Church’s to WingsStop to Chic fil A…..
3 years ago
Do any of these state voter laws matter if some local politician ignores them as happened in the 2020 election? Without accountability and significant penalties, the criminals will up the vote fraud ante.
3 years ago
Great…just like the guy who died from lung cancer and then decided to quit smoking.
3 years ago
It’s a move in the right direction, but the Dems will still figure out a way to cheat and steal elections The “Big Lie” is the “Awful truth”.
3 years ago
Reasonable people recognize that this election was STOLEN and HOW IT WAS DONE. The evidence is out there whether you want to believe it or not (SUPREME COWARDS come to mind). Folks that truly care about elections and the strength/value of their vote won’t be bothered by needing a VALID PHOTO ID. If they can’t get to the polls for health reasons, then the ABSENTEE BALLOT option is available in all States. Those yelling the loudest AGAINST FAIR AND FREE ELECTIONS are the ones who want to STEAL YOUR VOTES…don’t you realize this, folks. They aren’t in it for you, only THEIR POWER TO CONTROL.
“The WISE understand for themselves; only FOOLS listen to the mob.”
TRUMP WON!!!
3 years ago
Did anybody really read this stuff????? There isn’t one meaningful reform in that bill.
All mail in ballots are still permitted. They’ve always been a source of fraud.
Requesting a mail in ballot goes from 6 months to 3 months…so what?
Ballot “harvesters” can still do their thing.
Drop boxes are still allowed.
No suggestion of how to stop the criminals from switching ballots after submission, during counting. No monitoring of counting.
No real documentary trail of ballots. You submit the ballot, who knows what happens to it.
All the states will now put in meaningless bills that actually accomplish nothing and they’ll all say “look, we fixed everything, you can trust us!”
It’s all lies. They’ve been caught in massive fraud in 2020. They aren’t changing anything.
3 years ago
Too little, too late? 🙁
3 years ago
Every thing sounds sweet and fine. BUT, yes it is a great BUT, when the battle ground states are in the hands of Democratic or fake republican Governors as it happened in 2020 presidential elections, what is the use and purpose of bringing new rules and amendments to strengthen electoral reforms,? Friends! you all must give a thought in this direction and it is time for self introspection. You must hit the opponent where it hurts. Completely change and reform the voting machines like Dominion. Even these things are not at all sufficient. You must try to impeach all the supreme court justices with the exception of Justice Thomas who alone appears to be a patriot. I am from India and we Indians are used to such electoral frauds and stuffing of ballots. BUT, keep one thing in mind. The judiciary in India, especially the supreme court is like a place of worship for all Indians irrespective of class,creed,color or religion. In that sense I am very proud to say I am an Indian. Americans, please wake up. Send your judges to jail.
