U.S. State Representative from Georgia, Park Cannon, was released hours after being arrested on Thursday for standing outside governor Brian Kemp's office as he signed a law setting new ID requirement for absentee ballots and limiting ballot drop boxes.

As soon as Kemp, a Republican, signed the law, voting rights activists vowed to challenge it.

Activists said the law championed by Republicans aimed to curtail the influence of Black voters who were instrumental in state elections that helped Democrats win the presidential race.

Park later tweeted that she had been released from jail and said she was not the first and won't be the last Georgian to be arrested for fighting what she describes as voter suppression.

The new voting provisions add a new ID requirement for absentee ballots and limit ballot drop boxes.

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