'Yes, this is voter suppression': Georgia journalist feels effects of butchered voting rights bill
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It hasn’t even taken a full year for the effects of a caustic Georgia voting rights law to start to impact voters—and one in particular has a larger following than many. Journalist Rickey Bevington, who anchors NPR's All Things Considered on Geo'Yes, this is voter suppression': Georgia journalist feels effects of butchered voting rights bill
It hasn’t even taken a full year for the effects of a caustic Georgia voting rights law to start to impact voters—and one in particular has a larger following than many. Journalist Rickey Bevington, who anchors NPR's All Things Considered on Georgia Public Broadcasting, wrote a since-deleted tweet about her experience attempting to vote on Tuesday, the day many Atlanta voters were tasked with voting for a new mayor. «Today I'm experiencing Georgia's new voting restrictions,” she tweeted. “I accidentally went to the wrong voting precinct. I'm barred from casting a provisional ballot before 5pm. Since I work until 7pm, I must go to the precinct now or my vote won't count. Grateful to have time & a car» State Rep. Bee Nguyen retweeted Bevington’s post and added her own observations in Georgia. “I was a poll monitor in Fulton County last year during the Presidential election,” Nguyen tweeted. “Over half of the voters at my precinct were at the wrong precinct but right county. They were able to vote provisionally. No longer the case with SB202. Yes, this is voter suppression.” Read more

