According to the Brennan Center, Arizona leads the nation in proposed voter-suppression legislation this year, with 19 restrictive bills. (One bill would even give the state legislature the power to reject the popular vote in a presidential election and appoint a different slate of voters to the Electoral College.) Pennsylvania comes in second with 14 restrictive policy proposals, followed by Georgia (11 bills) and New Hampshire (10 bills). Nearly half of the restrictive bills introduced this year seek to limit mail-in voting, which took on crucial importance during the pandemic, with mail-in votes in such states as Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania giving Biden his margin of victory over Donald Trump. Lawmakers in Arizona, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Georgia are seeking to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting, while a Missouri bill would specifically eliminate concerns about contracting COVID-19 as an excuse for not being able to vote in person. Even states that went heavily Republican in 2020 aren’t taking any chances: The Iowa state legislature voted late last month to cut early voting by nine days, close polls an hour earlier, and compress the deadline for absentee ballots.
Of those 43 states that have introduced voter-suppression legislation this year, perhaps the one pursuing the most nakedly aggressive efforts is Georgia, the site of the Democrats’ greatest victory in 2020. Some proposed legislation there seems specifically aimed at the state’s Black voters: One bill severely restricts early voting on Sundays, when many Black churches throughout the state traditionally hold “souls to the polls” get-out-the-vote drives. According to a recent analysis of Georgia’s vote in the November general election, Black voters used early voting on weekends at a higher rate than white voters in 43 of 50 of the state’s largest counties. Black voters make up roughly 30% of Georgia’s electorate but comprised 36.7% of Sunday voters in 2020 and 36.4% of voters on early-voting days. Democrats say the impact of that bill could be staggering if it becomes legislation. “Under the Georgia GOP’s plan to dismantle our elections system, over 2.2 million Georgians’ votes would have been affected, causing hours-long lines during early vote, overwhelming elections offices, or even preventing voters from casting their ballots at all,” Maggie Chambers, spokeswoman for the Democratic Party of Georgia, said last month. “This bill is a direct attack on Georgia voters, especially the communities of color who are already more likely to face long lines and barriers to casting their ballot.” And as Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause Georgia, told Mother Jones: “This bill is Jim Crow with a suit and tie.”
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