A provision in Georgia voting law only allows student IDs from state schools as a form of voter ID. Voting rights experts say it disproportionately impacts student voters of color because most of Georgia’s HBCUs are private institutions.
allowed between a general election and a runoff election, which drastically shortened the period during which many voters must request, receive and cast ballots).
“This [provision] isn’t even part of SB 202, but all of these laws kind of interact with each other and have a cumulative impact, so when you stack them up, they often end up having a noticeable disenfranchising effect in the broader picture,” Garabadu of the Georgia ACLU said., had either amended existing voter ID laws or issued new guidance in how to interpret them to allow school IDs from private colleges and universities as an acceptable form of ID to vote.
“Government identification is, by definition, issued by GOVERNMENT agencies. Photo identification for voting is a longstanding legal requirement passed by the Georgia legislature and upheld by the courts, and Georgia offers an ID card at every County Registrar’s office or Department of Driver Services office free of charge,” Mike Hassinger, a spokesperson for the secretary of state, said in a written statement to NBC News.
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