Voting Rights:
Restoring the Freedom to Vote
The problem: By his own campaign's account, incumbent Chuck Martin "worked tirelessly with his colleagues to draft and pass SB 202," the 2021 law that added new ID requirements for absentee ballots and cut the number of drop boxes available to voters. Since then, voting in Georgia has gotten harder, not easier, for working people, seniors, and voters who can't afford to wait in long lines. Martin also supported a performance review targeting Fulton County's top election official after the 2020 election, even though no evidence of meaningful fraud was ever found in the county. Making it harder to vote wasn't a side effect of that agenda. It was the point.
What Sara will do about it:
Fight to restore and expand voting access in Georgia.
Oppose further restrictions on absentee and early voting.
Support modernizing voter registration and protecting access to secure drop boxes and polling locations.
Push back against any effort to make Georgia's elections less accessible or less trusted.
Why it matters to her: Sara Fuchs has spent six years inside the State House, watching how bills like SB 202 actually get written and passed, and who benefits when fewer people vote. She started in politics as a volunteer on a 2018 campaign that flipped a State House seat for the first time in a generation, an experience that showed her exactly what's possible when every voter has a real chance to be heard. She believes the right to vote shouldn't depend on how much free time you have or how many hours you can stand in line, and she's running to make sure District 49 has a representative who expands that right instead of chipping away at it.