Early Tuesday Cameron Britt stood in the corner of a parking lot across from the Metropolitan Library in Southwest Atlanta, talking into a bullhorn aimed at voters and telling them about free food.
“You know what I’m excited about? Free coffee and doughnuts,” he says.
Behind him a D.J. was spinning tunes, and volunteers stood behind tables full of snacks, water and doughnuts. They’re all free, says Chandra Gallashaw, one of the coordinators here.
“The setup is for the people to come from the polls to come over here and get food, because we can’t give it to them. It’s against the law,” she said.
Georgia’s new voting law prohibits handing out food or water to voters in line, but 150 feet from the polling location, such activities are legal. That’s where the group Stand Up Georgia posted its colorful signs saying, “Let’s vote today Georgia.”
