Georgia Governor Signs Election Overhaul, Including Changes To Absentee Voting
The law will make dramatic alterations to Georgia's absentee voting rules, adding new identification requirements, moving back the request deadline and other changes.
Updated March 25, 2021 at 6:43 PM ET
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a a massive overhaul of election laws, shortly after the Republican-controlled state legislature has approved it. The bill enacts new limitations on mail-in voting, expands most voters' access to in-person early voting and caps a months-long battle over voting in a battleground state.
The 96-page bill would make dramatic alterations to Georgia's absentee voting rules, adding new identification requirements, moving back the request deadline and other changes after a record 1.3 million absentee ballots overwhelmed local elections officials and raised Republican skepticism of a voting
