SB 202 LIMITS EARLY VOTING, ABSENTEE VOTING, AND BALLOT DROP BOXES, ADDS FINES FOR GROUPS HELPING ABSENTEE VOTERS
ATLANTA—Late last night, the League of Women Voters of Georgia, along with the Georgia NAACP, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, Georgia Latino Community Development Fund, Common Cause, and the Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe, filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia to prevent enforcement of SB 202, an omnibus voter suppression bill signed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp last week. Plaintiffs argue the bill targets the voting rights of Georgians of color, in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.
“The League of Women Voters has fought SB 202 ever since it was introduced, and we’re continuing to fight it now,” said Susannah Scott, president of the League of Women Voters of Georgia. “This bill deliberately targets Black, Latinx, Asian American, indigenous, and other voters of color in a direct attempt to eliminate the voting rights gains of 2020. It’s a despicable attempt by legislators to choose who can vote in our state and who cannot. It’s undemocratic, unconstitutional, and un-American.”
