Abrams' group launches seven-figure ad campaign targeting Georgia GOP voting measures

Georgia Republicans are edging closer to adopting restrictive new elections measures. The voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams aims to turn public opinion decisively against the proposals.

Fair Fight Action launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign on Tuesday warning that legislation to restrict absentee balloting could harm Republicans as much as Democrats, leading to longer lines and new threats of identity theft.

“Georgians of both parties have voted by mail for decades. Almost half a million Georgia Republicans did it just last year,” said a narrator, pointing to the roughly 450,000 absentee ballots in November that were cast for former President Donald Trump.

“The GOP knows voting by mail works – it was their idea. It’s how Republicans won Florida. Now these same politicians who passed these laws want to make it harder.”

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