Republicans don't have control over that. Elections, places, voting machines, workers are all decided by the county. So if any place closed or you had to wait a long time, it was Democrats who did it, not a Republican Governor.
Yes, Republican governors and secretaries of state indeed have control over elections.
Georgia's state leadership and elections officials have largely ignored complaints about poll consolidations even as they tout record growth in voter registration. As secretary of state from 2010 to 2018, when most of Georgia's poll closures occurred, Brian Kemp, now the governor, took a laissez-faire attitude toward county-run election practices, save for a
2015 document that spelled out methods officials could use to shutter polling places to show "how the change can benefit voters and the public interest."
Kemp's office declined to comment Thursday on the letter or why poll closures went unchallenged by state officials. His spokesperson referred to his previous statements that he did not encourage officials to close polling places but merely offered guidance on how to follow the law.
The state's voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost 10%.
www.npr.org
Need more? Because closing polling places, removing drop-off locations, and purging voter rolls is what Brian Kemp did as Secretary of State and it is what he is now controlling as governor. Pretty shitty to do this in majority black and brown districts.
Georgia is one of 18 states that requires a voter to show photo ID to cast a ballot. Voters must also pay postage to both request and send mail-in ballots.
publicintegrity.org
This year alone, 10 counties with large black populations in Georgia closed polling spots after a white elections consultant recommended they do so to save money.
www.governing.com