The Georgia legislative adjourns April 3. This year, Georgia and Indiana were the only states with truly bad ballot access laws in which no bills to improve the laws were introduced.
Georgia election law bills that probably won’t pass are the National Popular Vote Plan bills (HB 408 and SB 134), and a bill to make it illegal for out-of-staters to participate in voter registration drives (HB 225), and a bill to require all candidates for public office to swear under penalty of perjury that they live in the district that they are running in (SB 35). SB 35 would be unconstitutional as to candidates for the U.S. House.
An idea that probably will pass is requiring people who are registering to vote to submit documents proving that they are U.S. citizens. Both houses of the legislature have passed such a bill (HB 45 and SB 86), although the two bills aren’t identical. A House Committee meets on March 24 to consider the Senate version of the bill.
Since the ballot laws introduced in Georgia were all bad bills, especially NPV, it’s good they didn’t pass.
One of these days I am going to agree with one of your postings, ComingBacktoTheLP. Not this time. The NPV bill was the one good thing Georgia had going with respect to election law this session.