Media Advisory: Hearing on S.B. 202 Challenges Georgia’s Anti-Voter Law

Livestream here: https://video.ibm.com/channel/ggNZ2kD8k2x

CONTACT:
ACLU: Ella Wiley, [email protected], 925-819-0555
ACLU-GA: Dorrie Toney, [email protected]
SPLC: [email protected]
LDF: Troi Barnes, [email protected], 929-736-1528

ATLANTA, Ga. — On Wednesday, August 13 at 9:30 a.m., voting rights groups will defend the current block on Georgia’s line relief ban outside of the 150-foot zone around the polling place, which prohibits distributing food and water to people waiting in line to vote. Georgia voters often must wait in hours-long lines in the hot sun to cast their ballots. SB 202 not only hurts voters — it violates the First Amendment rights of volunteer groups to express their solidarity with Georgians exercising their right to vote despite obstacles.

The law has been blocked since August 2023, thanks to the litigation brought by the Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Georgia Muslim Voter Project, Women Watch Afrika, Latino Community Fund Georgia, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., The Arc of the United States, Georgia ADAPT, and Georgia Advocacy Office.

The Court will also hear arguments on whether to leave in place the order blocking another provision of SB 202 that requires rejecting the absentee ballots of people who forget to write their birthdate on the envelope.

WHEN:

TOMORROW, Wednesday, August 13
9:30 a.m. ET

WHERE:

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Elbert P. Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals Building
56 Forsyth Street, N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia
30303

Attorneys will be available for press after the hearing.

WHO: The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, Legal Defense Fund, and the Southern Poverty Law Center

You can read more about the case here: https://www.aclu.org/cases/sixth-district-african-methodist-episcopal-church-v-kemp