Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) and the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund submitted testimony in the Georgia state Senate Ethics Committee opposing Senate Bill 241. (S.B. 241) The enactment of this bill would create unnecessary barriers and burdens on voters and disproportionately impact racial minority, low-income, elderly, rural, disabled and student voters, and may violate federal laws, including the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Read the full testimony here.
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