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Which parts specifically reduced access to the polls?
BBC fact checking says no significant or material change from before...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56650565
BBC fact checking says no significant or material change from before...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56650565
Will voting hours be restricted?
President Biden has said: "What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It's sick. Deciding that you're going to end voting at five o'clock when working people are just getting off work."
But it's not the case that voting has to finish at 5pm.
The law allows counties to set voting hours anywhere between 7am and 7pm, as was the case previously.
The new law does lay out the hours that are required as a minimum on election day, saying "voting shall be conducted beginning at 9:00 A.M. and ending at 5:00 P.M.", as opposed to "during normal business hours" stated in the old law.
But "normal business hours" were widely interpreted as 9am to 5pm anyway, so the practical impact of this change is negligible.