Georgia’s Secretary of State is supporting the new voting law passed by the Georgia General Assembly, while still defending the integrity of the 2020 election he oversaw. 

In comments made this week to NPR, Brad Raffensperger called the new changes, “positive, solid, measured election reforms.” Raffensperger praised the parts of the law that add new ID requirements for absentee voting, expanded access to early in-person voting, shorter runoff period times and reduced wait times.

“It’s really something that is a very broad-based, uniform process and is going to, I think, ensure that we have faster runoffs and making sure we have very objective measures for absentee ballots, for identification of those voters, so that it restores confidence,” Raffensperger said.