I voted for the republican party, not Trump. We don't burn down cities. You do. We don't try to erase those that disagree with us. You do. I used to be a democrat. I left the democrats because they lost their roots and stopped representing all of US. I leave it at that.
You do realize that the GQP is now trying to take elections away from duly elected candidates by placing the final decision in the lands of state legislatures. That is one step away from authoritarianism. Why are they doing that? Because a mentally ill narcissist cannot admit that he lost the election in 2020.
I doubt you were ever a Democrat. You sound pretty much a trump humper. I expect you are one of those who are fueling the Big Lie and saying that January 6th was just another US Capitol tour. You are not fooling anyone.
WTF are you talking about?? Link please.
Increased state power over counties
The new law removes the Georgia secretary of state as the chair of the state elections board. (Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have attacked the
current Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, for refusing to accommodate Trump's baseless claims about the 2020 election.) Instead, the law lets the state legislature -- which has been under unified Republican control since 2005 -- appoint a "nonpartisan" chair of the board.
And under the new law, if a majority of the five-member board decides that a county's elections officials have been doing their job poorly, the board can suspend those officials and replace them with one person the board has hand-picked to serve as a temporary superintendent, with the same powers the officials had.
The new law allows the state board to sideline elections officials in up to four counties at a time. A majority of the board would have to decide that the officials demonstrated "nonfeasance, malfeasance, or gross negligence" in at least two elections over a two-year period, or that the county officials committed at least three violations of election law or board regulations in the last two general election cycles and had not "sufficiently remedied" these violations.
This provision is a
concern to officials and activists in large Democratic-run counties like Atlanta's Fulton County, whose elections administration has been attacked by former Trump and other Republicans.
