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Gov. Kemp signs GOP election bill amid outcry

Jay Lawson of the Hall County Elections Office opens a absentee ballot drop box Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, as Hall County Marshall Dwight Mobley observes at the Spout Springs Library. The ballots are removed regularly from the boxes. - photo by Scott Rogers

12192020 BALLOT 1.jpg — Jay Lawson of the Hall County Elections Office opens a absentee ballot drop box Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, as Hall County Marshall Dwight Mobley observes at the Spout Springs Library. The ballots are removed regularly from the boxes. - photo by Scott Rogers

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run.