Georgia has a long history of undermining the right to vote, from the Jim Crow-era tactics of poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, to more recent tactics of voter-roll purges, exact-match policies, and partisan gerrymandering.
Discussing historical and current voting rights issues in Georgia.
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