By Joseph Ax
Republican lawmakers in Georgia were poised on Tuesday to advance a bill expanding law enforcement’s power to investigate election fraud, adding to a broader push by U.S. conservatives for more restrictive voting laws after former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
Tuesday’s expected vote in Georgia’s House of Representatives comes less than a week after Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature approved a law creating a new election police force, the first of its kind in the nation.
