WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are spotlighting Georgia as they build their case for a broad overhaul of U.S.
election law, arguing the new voting rules in the state are emblematic of Republican measures across the country that threaten access to the polls.
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday — which Democrats provocatively titled “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote” — featured testimony from Georgia officials, including voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams, a former Georgia state legislator who narrowly lost a bid for governor in 2018.
Abrams said parts of the sweeping new Georgia law are intended to suppress minority votes. She said federal legislation to strike down hurdles to voting is “essential to the