The bill shortens the time between general elections and runoff elections from nine weeks to four weeks. It also decreases the amount of time for early voting in runoffs.
6 Big Changes Passed in Georgia's Elections Bill
The 95-page bill changes when, where, and what is needed for Georgians to vote. It expands early voting in most counties, requires voters to submit identifying information for mail-in ballots and limits ballot drop boxes. Here are all the details, and the likelihood that similar bills pass in other states.
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How the Bill will impact Georgia Voters
The bill's impact may both expand some aspects of voting, complicate others, and even contract other forms of casting a ballot.
Long lines to vote have been a pervasive problem in Georgia for many years, particularly in the highly populous and fast-growing precincts in the metro Atlanta area.
The Push for Reform Started in February
Responses From Politicians
"The proposed changes appear to be rooted in partisan interests, not in the interests of all Georgia voters," Carter said in a statement.
"Instead of celebrating better access and more participation, their response is trying to eliminate access to voting for primarily communities of color," Abrams said.
Warnock is the first Black Democratic senator to be elected in Georgia and presides over the same church that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once led.
"This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle. This is gigantic, what they're trying to do," Biden said.
Could This Happen in Other States?
Not all efforts, especially around voting by mail, are restrictive. Legislators in numerous states, both red and blue, are advancing bills to expand voting.
The For the People Act would also be the most significant and wide-ranging federal legislation on election administration policy.