Last week, Georgia passed SB 202 which gives the state legislature power over county elections. This has the potential to give the Republican controlled state legislature the ability to disqualify votes they deem “illegitimate.” The law also criminalizes handing out food and water to voters waiting in line to vote, it requires voter ID for absentee ballots, and will limit the amount of ballot drop boxes in certain counties. In this episode, Drew and Alex discuss how the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan institute focused on voting rights, has been “tracking the spread of new voting restrictions across the country. The last time its data was updated, there were more than 250 bills under consideration in statehouses that would limit access to the ballot box.” Drew and Alex discuss voter ID laws and how they don’t seem to impact voting numbers. They also find that some of the new laws seem to want to discourage voting without any reason. They fear that this is political theater to appease Trump and his supporters who still support “the big lie.”