The bill adds additional requirements for voter identification to vote; allows counties to choose whether to allow Sunday voting; shortens the period during which a voter can request an absentee ballot; reduces the time between general and run-off elections; and bans the handing out of food and water to voters waiting in line within a certain distance of a polling location, among other reforms.
"Look at what's happened across the board. The very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports, and it's just not right," Biden said during the ESPN interview. "This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they're doing in Georgia and 40 other states."
Corporations headquartered and heavily invested in Georgia, including Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola and Microsoft, have spoken out against the bill, drawing ire from many Republican lawmakers across the country.
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Kemp has pushed back on White House criticisms of the law, saying the president has misportrayed what it would do.
"When the President of the United States says something, you know a lot of people pay attention. But what Joe Biden needs to do is look at the side-by-side of Georgia and Delaware," Kemp told Fox News during an April 1 interview. "He's focused on trying to get Major League Baseball to pull the game out of Georgia, which is ridiculous."
"The spread of misinformation by the Biden White House continues. The Election Integrity Act makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat," Kemp tweeted the same day in response to a statement by Psaki criticizing the voting law.
Psaki on Monday walked back one of the president's past criticisms – that the voting law reduced Election Day voting hours. But she said the law reduces hours for early voting "so there are a lot of components he's concerned about."
The governor has also been critical of moves by corporations to oppose the law.
“There is nothing I can do about that,” Kemp said. “I'm not going to be bullied by these people. But I’m also not running a public corporation. They'll have to answer to their shareholders. There is a lot of people that work for them and have done business with them that are very upset.”
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