JOINT STATEMENT ON SB 463:

Right now, Georgia Republicans are trying to pass a law that forbids the @GaSecofState, State Election Board, counties, and localities from mailing absentee ballot applications to voters. This is unacceptable.

Rural counties are currently seeing COVID surging and are bracing for a tough fall. If a county wants to help their community safely participate in elections, this proposed law would prohibit them to decide themselves if they want to send absentee ballot request forms to voters.

GA GOP needs to realize that vote by mail is a tool that can benefit either party and that localities, as well as the state, should maintain as many possible tools in their toolbox to promote vote by mail generally and certainly in the midst of a raging, ongoing health crisis.

Signed by:

@fairfightaction
@southerncenter
@Georgia_NAACP
@AsianAAF
@Indivisible_GA
@PPSE_Advocates
@BlackVotersMtr
@NARALGA
SEIU Workers United Southern Region
@VotingIsLocal, Georgia
@WorkingFamilies
@GAEquality
@CareInActionUS
@reformgeorgia
@GAEvoices