During this past session of the General Assembly, a new voting law was passed to allow people who have protective orders issued or are residents of a family violence shelter to shield their residence data on voter rolls. As I mentioned when I first wrote about this in May, this is a VERY good law, and genuinely needed to help protect people who have been abused. News has come out this morning that this law has been approved by the US DOJ under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and can now be implemented.
Prior to this law being passed (by the General Assembly, not the Secretary of State), people who have been abused could be relatively easily tracked every time they registered to vote. After all, as long as you know a person’s first initial, last name, and date of birth, you can go to this site and get their address and all State and Federal districts they are in. You also need to know the county they live in, but so long as you know that they are in Georgia, you can do a brute-force attack and look through every single county if you are not sure about exactly where they are.
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Bill Criminalizing Abortion Introduced
Every morning, I do at least a quick scan of LEGIS for any new bills introduced, and I read the ones that happen to catch my eye for any given reason.
This morning there were a couple that caught my eye, though only one of them is the subject of this post.
The bill in question goes by a fairly innocent name – the “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act” -and is introduced by a “Constitutionalist” – Barry Loudermilk -that clearly can’t read the Constitution.
This bill criminalizes “intent” to perform an abortion if the “intent” is in any way based on race, color, or sex of the fetus and makes performing an abortion with this “intent” a felony.
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