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Nse Ufot, the CEO of the New Georgia Project accused Kemp of cowardice for signing the bill not just behind closed doors but just an hour after it was passed. Bills often go unsigned until the legislative sessions ends, which isn't until March 31.

Asked what she made of the photo of Kemp signing the bill told her, Ufot said, \"Georgia's pale, stale, male minority has an outsized influence on our politics and they feel their grip slipping.\"

Rev. Raphael Warnock, Georgia's first Black senator who faces reelection in 2022, was with Cannon, one of his parishioners, after she was released from jail.

\"I got news for the state of Georgia for those who are trying to take the people's voices. We're going to keep on -- in various ways, we're going to keep on knocking on that door. Because that wasn't just Representative Cannon knocking on the door,\" Warnock told reporters Friday.

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PHOTO: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp makes remarks about the state's COVID-19 vaccination roll-out during a news conference at the Georgia State Capitol, March 16, 2021, in Atlanta.
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In his bill signing remarks, Kemp said the bill will make it \"easy to vote and hard to cheat,\" echoing Republicans in the state legislature. He also took a shot at its critics.

\"Georgians will no doubt be soon overwhelmed with fancy TV ads, mailers and radio spots attacking this common-sense election reform measure. In fact, left-wing groups funded by out-of-state billionaires are already doing that now. They're using outrageous, false rhetoric to scare you and put millions of dollars in their own pocket,\" Kemp said. \"According to them, if you support voter ID for absentee ballots, you're a racist. According to them, if you believe in protecting the security and sanctity of the ballot box, you're a 'Jim Crow in a suit and tie.'\"

In Georgia, there \"is a long history of aggressively and intentionally suppressing Black votes that needs to be addressed,\" said Ufot, but she added that, \"an attack on our democracy and an attack on the right to vote is an attack on us all.\"

She told ABC News that the GOP is threatened by the changing demographics and electorate, in Georgia and across the country.

\"The current version of the Republican Party and people who champion their policies see this rise in a multiracial, multiethnic progressive majority as a threat to their future prospects ... America's Browning. We're moving towards a multiracial, multiethnic majority, and Georgia is just the tip of the spear,\" she said. \"They think that they can no longer win on their ideas.\"

ABC News' Lauren Lantry, Ben Siu and Chad Murray contributed to this report.

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