Brian Kemp governor for Georgia attracted protests as he went ahead and signed into a law sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections. This law also includes new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run.
The democrats and the voting right groups are against this law as they are sure that this law will disfranchise voters of color. President Joe Biden called such GOP efforts “un-American” and “sick” during a news conference.
Kemp stated that “After the November election last year, I knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed.” As he signed the bill.
President Biden wasn’t too happy about this and made it very clear when he made this statement “The Republican voters I know find this despicable, Republican voters, the folks outside this White House. I’m not talking about the elected officials. I’m talking about voters. Voters. And so I’m convinced that we’ll be able to stop this because it is the most pernicious thing.”
In Georgia, Democratic state Senate Minority Leader Gloria Butler also made a statement “We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we’ve seen since the Jim Crow era,”
Kemp was delivering his remark when he was interrupted whiles on livestream. The stream ended with all the commotion going on outside his office, Park Cannon who is of color and also a democratic rep was arrested after she knocked on the governor’s office door.
Cannon was then charged with felony obstruction of law enforcement, punishable by 1 to 5 years in prison, it wasn’t clear if Cannon had a lawyer who could comment.
Rhonda Burnough a democratic rep stated that “Georgians turned out in record-breaking numbers because they could access the ballot, Lies upon lies were told about our elections in response, and now this bill is before us built on those same lies.”
