Less than a year after voters in Georgia voted for Joe Biden and then two Senate Democrats in runoff elections, the state finds itself once more at the center of the political universe
in the Democratic-controlled Congress to address it. This past week, Republicans blocked Democrats’ latest attempt to pass a bill through the evenly divided Senate. That has left Reaves and her colleagues virtually on their own.
which limits access to the ballot in various ways, including reducing the number of ballot drop boxes across the state compared to 2020. The law effectively eliminated mobile voting unless an emergency was declared, and shrunk the window of time allowed for voters to submit absentee ballot requests. But the more dangerous element of the bill, according to election law experts, is the provision that effectively allows for the take-over of county election boards.
“Former President Trump has been talking about Fulton County,” said Pitts from his office in downtown Atlanta. “There's a target on our back...It's us today, it can be any other county tomorrow.” The problem, he added, was not just the possibility of an election being overturned erroneously. It was that “the fear of a stolen election” would create “an atmosphere that makes people potentially not want to go vote.”