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Georgia already required providing identification to vote and the attempt is to restrict it to government issued identification rather than also including things that can easily be made at home (such as a utility bill or student ID card).
The grounds for opposition were that poor people were more likely to be unable to afford state issued ID cards. So the bill was revised to include making free government ID cards available. They still oppose it. I don't know what the grounds for doing so now are.
To me, proving who you are to vote doesn't sound so burdensome (and it shocked me when I moved to California and learned that you not only didn't have to do so but that my polling station posted a list of all voters registered for that station outside the venue and then updated it throughout the day to show who voted), even if you are poor. Georgia should be willing to accept a birth certificate though.
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