Former Georgia Democratic House Majority Leader Stacey Abrams claimed that residents in her home state are facing voter suppression because of their new election security law.

Georgia Republicans approved a law three years ago which increased election standards by adding voter identification requirements, expanding in-person early voting, and stopping officials from sending unsolicited absentee ballot applications to voters. Abrams claimed last week in an interview that record early turnout in Georgia this year does not mean voters are not dissuaded.

“While we are excited about who is showing up, we have to understand that turnout does not mean there is not voter suppression activity,” Abrams asserted. “One of the reasons we are seeing early lines is because they can no longer use the easier method of voting by mail.”

Abrams specifically condemned Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp, against whom she has lost twice in races for chief executive, for championing the election security statute.

“People who are disabled, people who have lost their homes are facing harder times casting their ballots, but they refuse to be silenced,” Abrams continued. “What we are excited about is that here in the state of Georgia, despite the government making it harder to cast your ballot, people are willing to fight to make it happen anyway.”

Democratic officials have rebuked election security laws passed by Republicans in recent years, claiming that they are indeed aimed toward deterring voters from casting ballots. President Joe Biden has described the law passed in Georgia as “Jim Crow in the twenty-first century.”

Yet the renewed criticism of the Georgia law comes after one recent survey from Gallup found that the vast majority of Americans support imposing election security measures such as requiring photo identification and proof of citizenship at polling places before ballots are cast.