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HAPPENING NOW: The GA House Special Committee on Election Integrity, led by Rep. Barry Fleming, is meeting to hear another anti-voting bill sponsored by Fleming — a notorious voter suppressor. #gapol
Let’s remind you who @flemingbarrya is: Fleming has spent over a decade suppressing the vote with stances and bills that disproportionately harm voters of color.
This past November, Fleming called absentee balloting “the shady part of town down near the docks you do not want to wander into because the chance of being shanghaied is significant”. https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-a-trump-fueled-rift-in-the-georgia-gop-takes-hold/TK6BKFCTBNFUTM76SWX6JMF33A/
In 2017, Fleming authored Georgia’s “Exact Match” Bill HB 268, which was sued for being unlawful and discriminatory for rejecting a voter’s registration application if you forgot a hyphen or used an initial instead of your complete middle name. https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/oct/19/georgias-exact-match-law-and-its-impact-voters-gov/
In 2018, about 53,000 voter registration applications were pending, disproportionately those of voters of color. https://apnews.com/fb011f39af3b40518b572c8cce6e906c
In 2015, Fleming defended Hancock County against the NAACP lawsuit after the county sent armed police officers to the homes of 180 Black residents, commanding them to appear in court or lose their voting rights. https://rollingout.com/2016/08/02/georgia-police-coming-to-homes-of-blacks-to-challenge-voting-rights/
In 2014, Fleming sponsored HB 891 to try to reduce early voting days from 16 to 6 for more than 500 cities and towns’ municipal elections. https://www.facingsouth.org/2014/03/move-to-slash-early-voting-defeated-in-georgia.html
In 2005, Fleming was the House Majority Whip during the passage of the voter ID law that was so controversial and unconstitutional, a federal judge blocked the law and said the court “simply has more respect for the Constitution." https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/voting-rights-advocates-hail-court-decision-georgia-photo-id-case
We will continue to fight for free and fair elections in Georgia. #gapol
