![]() Much of the consternation among voting rights groups centers on the sweeping voting rights law, known as SB202, enacted in Georgia last year. Anyone who only has Sunday off - God bless them - but we do have mail-in ballots available.” “I’ve heard lots of emotional arguments and I sympathize with all of them. “I still haven’t heard anything that leads me to say that we absolutely have to do it,” he said of Sunday balloting. “The lasting impact here is that the Spalding County (elections board) does not prioritize ballot access for its voters and in particular, Black voters who have long suffered from unequal ballot access,” she added.Ībout 35% of Spalding residents are Black.īen Johnson, the Republican chairman of the Spalding County board, argued during last week’s meeting that plenty of other options exist, including mail-in voting and the ability to cast ballots on two Saturdays during Georgia’s 17-day early voting window. ![]() The decision “severely restricts an important voting option for all voters in Spalding County, but especially Black voters who have a historic community tradition called ‘Souls to the Polls’ to mobilize and vote on Sundays,” Aklima Khondoker of the New Georgia Project, an organization that works to expand voting access in Georgia, told CNN. ![]() ![]() Those fears collided last week in Spalding County - a rural region south of Atlanta - when a newly reconstituted elections board voted 3-2 to eliminate Sunday early voting in the upcoming election. ![]()
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