GOP lawmaker loses job for sponsoring controversial Georgia 'voter suppression' bill

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Stephen Fowler, Gpb News
March 12, 2021



The Hancock County Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 Wednesday to ask Rep. Barry Fleming (R-Harlem) to resign as county attorney after pressure from citizens opposed to his work on proposed voting law changes.

Fleming is currently the House Special Committee on Election Integrity Chairman and primary sponsor of HB 531, a 66-page voting omnibus that would make sweeping changes to voting in Georgia, including limiting access to drop boxes and curbing larger counties' ability to offer a full slate of weekend voting.

Hancock has one of the highest proportions of Black voters in the country and has been the center of several voting controversies in recent years, including an episode in 2015 when a fifth of the voters in Sparta — all Black — had their voter registrations challenged.

One of those was Johnny Thornton, a retired DEA agent who lives and works on a catfish farm.

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[onecaliberal]

1. GOOD!

[crickets]

2. Voters are not going to roll over quietly and ignore attempts at suppression.

Good for Hancock County telling Barry Fleming to take a hike. Seriously, who says things like this anymore:

wrote in an op-ed that absentee ballots were like the "shady" part of town down by the docks where you could get "shanghaied."

Racist jerk. Good riddance.