GA Gov. Kemp signs potent Elections Integrity bill: Dem. Rep. protestor cuffed outside Kemp's office

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) signed into law a GOP-backed "Elections Integrity Act of 2021" aka SB 202 on Thursday and Democrats had a cow.

The purpose of the bill is to reduce election fraud and tighten up the way elections

are handled in the state. Voter ID will be dealt with and there will be restrictions on drop boxes. In-person voting will be expanded along with other election-related fixes of the current system.

“With Senate Bill 202, Georgia will take another step toward ensuring our elections are secure, accessible and fair,” Kemp said on Thursday. “Ensuring the integrity of the ballot box isn’t partisan, it’s about protecting the very foundation of who we are as Georgians and Americans.”

Georgians will have added ID requirements for absentee-by-mail ballots to avoid fraud. When they return their ballots, voters will be required to use an identification form to actually verify who they are--what a novel concept. This change replaces the signature matching on applications that were formerly used to verify the voter and will match ballot envelopes as well.

SB 202 also expands in-person voting access, NPR noted: “Current Georgia law requires three weeks of Monday through Friday voting during ‘normal business hours’ and a mandatory Saturday session from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m, with counties allowed to add more hours — including on the weekends — as they saw fit.”

Kemp’s signing of the bill sparked protesting from Democratic representatives.

Democratic Rep. Park Cannon, [not a joke] was detained by Georgia State Patrol after she made it to an entrance of the governor’s office. She was escorted out of the building in handcuffs, but it remains unclear if Cannon will be charged with anything as well she should be.

Here’s some of the video, from @hannahjoyTV, showing the Democratic Rep. [and explosive[ Park Cannon being detained by Georgia State Patrol outside an entrance to the Governor’s office. #gapol pic.twitter.com/LXSInsaErj

— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) March 25, 2021

Last month, elected Democrats clashed with police in the Georgia State Capitol while protesting a similar Republican-backed election integrity bill, HB 531. Cannon, was again at the center of the protest. She claimed the bill targets voters by race and status because she does not believe that minorities, the elderly and mthers are capable of obtaining IDs and the other necessities needed to vote.  “The goal of me speaking today is so that black people, people across the state of Georgia, poor people, mothers and seniors can vote,” the racist Democrat said at the time.

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