Georgia’s record early voting, post-2020 stress tests helped to defuse election rules overhaul • Georgia Recorder

Democrats and Republicans in Georgia and across the country have fought for four years in the courts and in Washington, D.C. over changes to election rules enacted by the state’s GOP Legislature following the election of Joe Biden in 2020. A controversial rule adopted in 2021 establishing a 25-foot zone prohibiting the distribution of bottled water and snacks to voters in line turned Georgia into a laughing stock on late night television. A federal judge struck down the 25-foot ban last year, but upheld the federal 150-foot restriction against giving...