Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is the latest lawmaker to join in the Southern states’ efforts at Re-Reconstruction, by calling for a special legislative session on June 17 to redraw Congressional district maps for the 2028 election.
Under the current map, Republicans have nine congressional seats and Democrats have five.
Kemp, said that Georgia will not redistrict for the 2026 midterms with state primaries set for next Tuesday, but will take action for 2028 in case Republicans lose control of the legislature or the governor’s office in November.
As SCOTUS greenlighted the GOP to bust up and dilute Black-majority districts and disenfranchise voters, other states have raced to redraw maps even as elections have been underway.
Expert analysts believe that Georgia lawmakers will not be as successful as other states at eliminating Democratic seats because of the increasing Democratic stronghold around Atlanta. An aggressive redraw could also risk a “dummymander” backfire.
There is one district in the southwest corner of the state, represented by Sanford Bishop since 1993, that is vulnerable.
Another issue Georgia lawmakers will be addressing is a new law, passed in 2024, that would outlaw a current QR code system of tabulating ballots by July 1.
Paper ballots are fed into a scanner that reads the QR code — a setup that, according to Trump-loving dummies who can’t understand what a QR code is, does not allow voters to verify their choices.
The state legislature has not yet approved funding to replace the system, so they are looking to delay the deadline.
The law was inspired by Trump’s Big Lie, and carried out by Georgia Republicans seeking to pacify the loser of the 2020 election.