In Georgia County, Elections Bills Have Consequences : NPR - 1 views
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Long before Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a 98-page law that enacted drastic changes to election rules in Georgia this week, some lawmakers were already facing pushback amid an inflamed debate over voting rights.
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Hancock County is about 100 miles east of Atlanta and one of the poorest in the country.
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"He knows how important absentee voting and early voting is to this community," he said. "And he goes and introduces legislation to make it harder, more difficult for the very people to vote that are paying him as county attorney!"
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