Georgia Gov. Kemp Signs, Controversial Election Bill Amid Protest.<br />The Republican-backed bill will enact <br />a significant overhaul of voting <br />procedures for the state's elections.<br />The new restrictions include granting<br />the state's legislators more control over how elections <br />are conducted and limits voting by mail.<br />After the November election last year, I knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed, Brian Kemp, GA Governor, via AP News.<br />Those who object to the bill say that it <br />will affect voters of color disproportionately.<br />Democrats have called the bill's passage a means to implement "voter suppression tactics.”.<br />We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we’ve seen since the Jim Crow era, Gloria Butler, GA Senate Minority Leader, <br />via AP News.<br />Black Democratic Georgia lawmaker Park Cannon was <br />arrested by state troopers when she knocked on the door <br />of Gov. Kemp's office in protest after he signed the bill.<br />Images of Rep. Cannon being forced into a <br />police cruiser by state troopers went viral. She has been <br />charged with felony obstruction of law enforcement.<br />During Thursday's press conference, <br />President Joe Biden referred to the <br />GOP bill as "sick" and "un-American."
