NEW: the Georgia House Special Committee on Election Integrity is meeting at 3 this afternoon and just added HB 531 - a 48 page omnibus elections bill that proposes a *lot* of changes. #gapol

Here's the text:

First, it would ban county elections offices from receiving outside funding to run elections.

This, after CTCL and Schwarzenegger gave money to both D and R counties in 2020 to help with pandemic.

(although I wonder if the county gov't could take the grant, then disburse?)
Next, it outlines ways that poll workers can serve adjacent counties (currently, you can only work in your county of residence)
This section mirrors an SOS-backed bill from 2020 that would require more machines, more poll workers or splitting up precincts if a 2,000+ person precinct has lines of more than an hour.

More on that proposal: https://t.co/7BfIcrI81q
This is an anti-Fulton County mobile voting bus section

(although I still believe that it's using the wrong code section since the busses are for *early* voting and fall under 21-2-382)
Current law requires 1 ballot-marking device per 250 active voters in a precinct for Election Day.

This would keep that for general elections, but allow flexibility for primaries, runoffs and other elections, based on expected turnout+early voting numbers.
This tweaks language about notice of Logic & Accuracy testing, making this very boring and very necessary piece of the voting process more publicly known.
This section is big:

-Earliest request for absentee ballot is 11 weeks before election, latest is 2 Fridays before election

-Application has DL# or state ID# or copy of photo ID, both paper+online

-No gov't/elections office can directly send an absentee ballot application
Drop boxes: allowed at early voting sites, only open during early voting hours, and close once early voting closes.

Also requires constant supervision by election official/poll worker/security/law enforcement.
Absentees:

Most would be sent out starting ~4 weeks before the election (except federal UOCAVA)

Outer absentee envelopes would also require DL #/ID # or last four of Social Security number - and all that would be hidden by envelope design until opened.
Instant runoff ranked-choice voting for UOCAVA voters, although it looks like it gets rid of electronic ballots.
Wow - this section would disallow counties from adding extra weekend early voting hours, and require 9A-5P (with the ability to extend to 7A-7P if needed)

That makes it harder for people that don't have job flexibility, large metro counties+nonwhite voters...
This section gets rid of signature verification, because election workers would be verifying DL # or SSN and Date of Birth.

Also, allows counties to begin processing absentee ballots no earlier than two weeks before election and no later than a week before.
These two sections provide more info about partisan poll watchers, and then bans "line warming" and people giving water or food to people in line (usually at polling places that have long lines)
This section would get rid of out-of-precinct provisionals.
This section would require a bipartisan panel to duplicate ballots that can't be properly scanned.
Georgia's HB 531 would also move up the certification deadline to... the Monday after the election, instead of the Friday after.

That would make a whole lot more work for local officials that have to count all the votes and ensure they're correct.
In the hearing, Fleming says this section provides "uniformity" on dates and times.

But out of GA's 159 counties, some rural counties have as much population county-wide as a single precinct in metro ATL.

It's uniform but unequal.

https://t.co/E5bzMwkQ8z
Dean of the House Rep. Calvin Smyre (D-Columbus) speaking now, and says he doesn't see the rush to make all of these changes, since it's a big bill with a lot of changes.

"There's nothing more important fundamentally than a person's right and the the privilege of voting."
Story: Georgia Republicans File Sweeping Elections Bill That Limits Early, Absentee Voting

https://t.co/rFv60saT5a

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This is a good piece on fissures within the GOP but I think it mischaracterizes the Trump presidency as “populist” & repeats a story about how conservatives & the GOP expelled the far-right in the mid-1960s that is actually far more complicated. /1

I don’t think the sharp opposition between “hard-edge populism” & “conservative orthodoxy” holds. Many of the Trump administration’s achievements were boilerplate conservatism. Its own website trumpets things like “massive deregulation,” tax cuts, etc. /2

https://t.co/N97v85Bb79


The claim that Buckley and “key GOP politicians banded together to marginalize anti-Communist extremism and conspiracy-mongering” of the JBS has been widely repeated lately but the history is more complicated. /3


This tweet by @ThePlumLineGS citing a paper by @sam_rosenfeld and @daschloz on the "porous" boundary between conservatives, the GOP and the far-right is relevant in this context.


This is a separate point but I find it interesting that Gaetz, like Roy Moore did In his failed Senate campaign, disses McConnell. What are their actual policy differences? MM supported taking health care away from millions, a tax cut for the rich, conservative judges, etc. /5

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