• Trump: Biden inhumane in Mexico, journalists don't ask him difficult questions, China doesn't respect him

  • After the alleged fraud on the postal vote: Trump asks to vote by post for the mayor of Palm Beach

  • Trump: "I will not make a new party, we will remain united and strong".

    Attacks on Biden

Share

March 27, 2021The reform of the electoral system signed yesterday by Republican Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp is, according to President Joe Biden, "a flagrant attack on the Constitution".

The new law limits the right to vote by increasing the requisites necessary to exercise it, in particular when you choose to vote by post, a particularly important possibility during the last presidential elections, when in order not to risk a full pandemic many voters were able to stay home.



In November, in the state of Atlanta, with Biden's victory over Donald Trump, it was the first time in 28 years that a Democratic candidate had won in Georgia.

Biden compared the electoral law wanted by the Republicans to the norms that institutionalized racial segregation at the end of the 19th century, emphasizing that the reform mainly harms African Americans.



"Among the scandalous parts of this new law - the president observed - are the early closure of the polls, which will make it impossible for many workers to cast their vote, but also the ban on providing water to those waiting in line to vote after their The ranks were created by the republican leaders who reduced the electoral centers in the state, especially in the black majority neighborhoods ".



In the Senate, Democrats are trying to pass a federal law, the so-called People Act;

Biden called on Congress to enact new rules to protect all Americans' right to vote.

Republicans control about thirty parliaments, and electoral reforms similar to that of Georgia are being examined in many of them.



Harris: "Clear effort to limit voter power"


"All our efforts should be in the direction of making it easier to exercise a fundamental right such as voting is. Instead, Georgia and many other states are trying to set limits. Let's call them for what they are: a clear effort to limit the rights of voters and deprive them of power ".

This is what the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris says in a tweet commenting on the controversial new electoral law.



Trump rejoices: "No more sham elections"


But the former US president Donald Trump with a statement released to the press rejoices at the squeeze on the right to vote.

"No more sham elections," says the former US president, pointing out how the Republicans, who control the Georgia Assembly, have learned the lesson of the 2020 presidential elections. "Too bad that these changes could not have come sooner," adds Trump. .

The new law, among other things, limits remote voting and requires the use of identification documents.



Trump, who lost to Biden in Georgia by about 12,000 votes, has repeatedly claimed, without having proven it, that there would be an election fraud that would cost him victory.