In fact, under UOCAVA, we have made appropriate mechanisms available in every single State to guarantee access to vote by mail.

What H.R. 1 would provide is a solution to a number of the challenges that folks in Georgia face.

According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, it is a 2 to 1 margin of support for vote by mail.

But when you understand how the laws work, it eviscerates the right to vote.

So, part of the insidiousness of voter suppression, and I use that word intentionally, we're used to the more aggressive 1950s, 1960s style voter suppression words, billy clubs, and horses, and dogs, telling people -- and laws that say you cannot vote.

Voter suppression is real. Voter fraud is a myth.

I do think, and I want to reiterate this false connection that is being drawn between voter turnout rates among communities of color, and voter suppression. These are not correlated.

What H.R. 4 does and what we need is that notice again of the voting changes and the burden to show what the impact is to be placed on the jurisdictions seeking to implement that law.

I vehemently disagree.

We also know that Georgia had an extraordinary number of poll closures. We had 214 polls close out of roughly 3,000. Those are largely African American communities.

Any restoration of Section 5 should, I believe, set a universal standard that disallows any processes that would diminish the ability for people of color to access the right to vote.