(CNN)The Justice Department is suing Georgia over new voting restrictions enacted as part of Republican efforts nationwide to limit voting access in the wake of President Donald Trump's election defeat.
The state law imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water.
Republicans had cast the measure as necessary to boost confidence in elections after the 2020 election and Trump's repeated and unsubstantiated claims of fraud, but Democrats in the state have called the new law voter suppression and likened it to Jim Crow-era voting laws.
CNN） ドナルド・トランプ大統領の選挙での敗北を受け、投票権を制限する全国的な共和党の取り組みの一環として制定された新たな投票制限について、司法省がジョージア州を訴えている。
この州法は、不在者投票の際に新たに有権者の身分証明書を要求し、州当局が地方の選挙管理委員会を引き継ぐ権限を与え、投票箱の使用を制限し、列に並んでいる有権者に近づいて食べ物や水を与えることを犯罪としている。
共和党は、2020年の選挙やトランプ大統領が根拠のない不正行為を繰り返し主張した後の選挙への信頼を高めるために必要な措置としていましたが、同州の民主党は新法を有権者弾圧と呼び、ジム・クロウ時代の投票法になぞらえています。
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Biden DOJ suing Georgia over new voting restrictions
Lin Wood
I still have a lawsuit pending against GA Secretary of State Brad “Jordy” Raffensperger, et al. in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case attacks the November 2020 election and the January 2021 Senate runoff.
The case is based on the illegal election (rule changes not adopted by Georgia legislature) AND fraud.
If necessary, I will take the case to U.S. Supreme Court.
I will post the docket number tomorrow. Maybe some lawyers would consider filing amicus briefs in support of the case. Maybe We The People will also support the case.
If not, I will keep going it alone.
I will never quit.
