The US Department of Justice will provide a lawsuit against the authorities of Georgia for the adoption of a law on early voting. Reports about it Reuters.
In the statement of claim, it is argued that the new rules violate the civil rights and freedoms of the Americans.
President Joe Biden, who became the first presidential candidate from the Democratic Party in three decades who won in Georgia, criticized the law on early voting, calling him “anti-American”. He compared this law with discriminatory “laws of Jim Crowe”, infrained the rights of the Black population of the United States.
Georgia’s law, signed by Governor Brian Kemp on March 25, tightened the requirements for identifying abnormal bulletins, limited the time of the vote on the election day and reduced the number of voting boxes. Also, the law will allow the state agency controlled by the Republicans, take over the polling stations in polling stations.
Later, several human rights organizations filed a lawsuit against the authorities of the State of Georgia because of the new electoral law. They argued that the law contradicts 15 amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits the authorities at the level of the state or individual states to limit the citizens of the country in the active electoral law on the basis of “race, skin color, or due to finding in slave in the past.”
It is believed that the adoption of the law was due to the statements of the former US President Donald Trump that his defeat in the 2020 presidential election was the result of a widespread fraud in Georgia and some other states.
During the presidential election in November 2020, Georgia was one of the fluctuating states, where the loser election The Republican Trump has sought revised the results, stating falsifications.