“We know that the only thing that dropped these charges was not that there was an issue of security. The secretary and the governor made an effort to assure America that the election in Georgia is safe,” the Georgia Democrat told CNN. Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” “And the only connection we can find is that more people of color voted and that it changed the outcome of the election in a direction that Republicans do not like.”
Republican-controlled lawmakers in several states recently called for bills that would restrict voting rights, an attempt to respond to former President Donald Trump’s false allegations of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. the right to vote assumes that, if signed, the excuse of absent votes will be revoked for many Georgians – a method used by 1.3 million residents to vote in the November general election.
State legislators in 43 states have introduced more than 250 bills this year with provisions that would restrict access to the vote, according to a version from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
The Iowa government, Kim Reynolds, a Republican, on Monday signed a new law that makes it harder to vote early, and becomes one of the first states to impose new restrictions. And there are nearly two dozen bills aimed at restricting votes, introduced in Arizona and several have progressed in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an election bill that would counter Republican efforts to restrict access to the vote at the state level. But the bill is likely to face challenges in the Senate, where it is not clear that there would be enough Republican support to overcome a filibuster.
Abrams asked her message to President Joe Biden and other Democrats who support suffrage but do not prefer the elimination of the filibuster, a step that could ensure the bill is passed, and Abrams told Tapper: ‘I do not believe that it is necessary to disable the filibuster to achieve the purposes of approving these accounts.
‘Just as we have seen an exemption in the philosophical rules for judicial appointments, for the appointment of the cabinet and for the reconciliation of the budget, the protection of our democracy, especially in the wake of the uprising on 6 January, and ‘it is a constant ripple in our entire legislative state, it demands that the entire U.S. Senate recognize that the protection of democracy is so fundamental that it must be exempt from the filibuster rules,’ Abrams said.
