“We know that the only thing that precipitated these accusations – it was not that there was a security issue. In fact, the secretary and the governor went to great lengths to assure the United States that the elections in Georgia were safe,” said the Democrat. Georgia to CNN. Jake Tapper in “State of the Union”. “And then the only connection we can find is that more people of color voted and that changed the outcome of the elections in the direction that Republicans don’t like.”
Republican-controlled legislatures in several states recently promoted bills that would restrict voting rights, an effort in response to former President Donald Trump’s false allegations of widespread fraud in the 2020 elections. The Georgia Senate passed a broad bill of voting rights on Monday which, if sanctioned, would revoke the absent vote without excuse for many Georgians – a method that 1.3 million residents used to vote in the November general election.
State lawmakers in 43 states this year introduced more than 250 bills with provisions that would restrict access to voting, according to a count by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, on Monday signed a new law that makes it more difficult to vote early, making it one of the first states to enact new restrictions. And nearly two dozen bills to restrict voting have been presented in Arizona and several have moved forward in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, the US House of Representatives passed an electoral bill that would run counter to Republican efforts at the state level to restrict access to voting. But the bill is likely to face challenges in the Senate, where it is unclear whether there would be enough Republican support to overcome an obstruction.
Asked about her message to President Joe Biden and other Democrats who support the right to vote, but do not favor the elimination of obstruction, a measure that could guarantee approval of the electoral project, Abrams told Tapper: “I don’t think it is necessary to maintain o eliminate obstruction to fulfill the purposes of approving those accounts. “
“Just as we saw an exemption carved out of the obstruction rules for court appointments, cabinet nominations and budget reconciliation, protection for our democracy, especially in the wake of the January 6 uprising and its continuing waves in our state legislatures. , requires the entire US Senate to recognize that the protection of democracy is so fundamental that it should be exempt from the rules of obstruction, “said Abrams.
