State Representative Park Cannon was arrested after she knocked on the Governor's door during the signing ceremony and was briefly jailed. She has been charged with some sort of felony obstruction of law enforcement.The Georgia legislature passed a sweeping measure on Thursday that will dramatically limit access to voting following continual and unfounded claims of fraud after the state voted Democrat in the 2020 presidential race.
Just hours later, Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who has made voter purges a cornerstone of his career, signed the bill critics have called “Jim Crow 2.0” into law.
The new measure will impose new identification requirements on those who vote by mail, imperiling the 200,000 voters who don’t have a driver’s license or state ID number. It will also limit the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots, criminalize voting groups from giving those standing in line to vote food and water and shorten the period for runoff races.
I foresee Atlanta will be losing business and academic conventions as the rest of the country shows its disgust. Enough people - and yes, many corporations who are not famous for liberal thinking - will say (or will be forced to say by their employees) fuck that. Maybe it's wishful thinking. I hope not.