A Voting Rights Challenge to Georgia SB202 Dropbox Access Law | Be A Part of the Complaint
Greg Palast Investigates has analyzed the numbers. Georgia state data from the November 6, 2022 election shows that the closure of absentee ballot dropboxes caused by the passing of Georgia's law SB 202 has proven to be a major impediment to voting by people of color in the state. From 2020/2021 elections to November 2022, mail-in ballots in Georgia plummeted by over 1 million, a breathtaking 81% loss of ballots concentrated in Black-majority counties. A principal cause of this drop-off: SB202 limits dropboxes to no more than one per one-hundred thousand active voters. This limit applies only to the four large Greater-Atlanta counties which are 59.7% non-white. The law closed 77% of Atlanta-area dropboxes, declining from 107 to 25.