A group of voting rights advocates in Georgia have asked a judge to block enforcement of a measure that outlaws handing out food and water to people standing in line to vote, part of a sweeping election law that has faced widespread criticism and a series of legal challenges from civil rights groups.
Georgia’s Senate Bill 202, a 98-page bill signed into law last year by Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp, also restricts mail-in ballots, rolls back the availability of ballot drop boxes, and gives greater the state’s GOP-dominated legislature greater electoral oversight, stripping authority from election administrators to place it in the hands of lawmakers.
