Peach Tree Times

A hearing in Georgia held by Senate Democrats focused on their initiatives to shift control of elections from the state to the federal level, according to the Election Transparency Initiative.

The field hearing was on July 19.

The Election Transparency Initiative said that Senate Democrats have alleged that new election integrity laws are similar to Jim Crow laws and that their intention is to suppress the vote, despite the recent Supreme Court decision Brnovich vs. DNC, which determined that Arizona's out-of-precinct and ballot collection eligibility laws do not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and House Bill 2023 was not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose.

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Those testifying at the field hearing focused on Senate Bill 202, a Georgia state bill passed in March that shortens the periods between elections and runoffs, bans early voting on holidays and makes it a crime for someone who is not an election worker to give food or drinks to anyone waiting in line to vote, according to ABC News.

According to the Peach Tree Times, 67% of Georgia voters support the Georgia Voter Legislation that requires voter ID to submit absentee ballots, and 55% of Georgia voters strongly support it. Further analysis of Georgia’s voter law shows that 95% of Republicans, 59% of independents and 39% of Democrats support the Georgia measure, as well as 84% of Latinos and 45% of black voters.

"What we did in Georgia this last election, in terms of turnout, should have been celebrated, by everyone, regardless of political party. But instead it was attacked by craven politicians, who are more committed to the maintenance of their own power than they are to the strengthening and maintaining of our democracy," U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) said in the hearing, according to ABC News.

Regarding the field hearing, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) recently said, “This silly stunt is based on the same lie as all the Democrats’ phony hysteria from Georgia to Texas to Washington, D.C. and beyond — their efforts to pretend that moderate, mainstream state voting laws, with more generous early-voting provisions than blue states like New York, are some kind of evil assault on our democracy," according to MarketWatch.