Washington Post admits 'voting is surging in Georgia' despite previous reports, claims about voter suppression
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Via: vic-eldred • 2 years ago • 65 commentsBy: Brandon Gillespie (Fox News)
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The Washington Post admitted over the weekend that the number of Georgians turning out to vote in this year's midterm election primaries was "surging," despite its previous reporting and claims that the state's new law aimed at election integrity would lead to voter suppression.
In a Saturday piece headlined, "Voting is surging in Georgia despite controversial new election law," The Post reported that early voting in Georgia was seeing its largest turnout ever, laying waste to its own claims, as well as those of Democrats and other left-wing figures, that the law, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in March 2021, amounted to Republican attempts to make it harder for people to vote.
"After three weeks of early voting ahead of Tuesday's primary, record-breaking turnout is undercutting predictions that the Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021 would lead to a fall off in voting," reporters Amy Gardner and Matthew Brown wrote.
They noted that early in-person voting was more than three times what it was in the 2018 midterm elections, and higher than what it was in 2020, a presidential election year.
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock arrives at a polling station in Atlanta, Georgia, May 6, 2022. (Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage)
They also detailed an interaction with a Black voter at one polling location who expressed surprise over how easy it was to cast a ballot despite hearing about reports of voter suppression.
"To go in there and vote as easily as I did and to be treated with the respect that I knew I deserved as an American citizen — I was really thrown back," the voter told The Post.
Gardner and Brown's reporting ran in stark contrast to The Post's previous reporting that Georgia's new voting law would lead to fewer people being allowed to vote, and that it would make it harder for non-White voters to cast their ballots.
"A close examination of the language in the law shows it does contain new restrictions on voting; some are likely to make it disproportionately more difficult for poorer voters and voters of color to cast their ballots," The Post's senior political producer, Peter Stevenson wrote in an April 2021 piece.
The Post's editorial board claimed in an April 2021 editorial that the law made voting "harder," and railed against its provisions that it argued were "anti-democratic."
"The law on the whole makes voting needlessly harder, and with no sound policy rationale," it wrote. "Republicans are twisting the rules to discourage Democratic voters from casting ballots."
"Republicans in many states, including Georgia, have adopted a different strategy: Make it harder to vote. No, that is not a full return to Jim Crow. But it shows a toxic hostility to democracy that no Republican can take pride in," it added.
Many Democrats, including Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and President Biden, also blasted the bill as legislation intended to suppress the votes of minorities.
Abrams described it as "a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie," while Biden referred to it as "Jim Crow in the 21st Century."
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And the best part is that turnout is high among Republicans.
I think it was Margaret Thatcher who noted it. When the left takes a good beating they tend to disappear for a while. I would add, especially on social media sites.
"After three weeks of early voting ahead of Tuesday's primary, record-breaking turnout is undercutting predictions"
What? Turnout of Republicans is high in a Republican primary in a majority Republican State? I'm shocked I tell you, utterly shocked! /s
The Post article is laughable. Their claim is the new voting laws couldn't have been designed to keep Democratic minority voters away from the polls because there is increased Republican turnout in a Republican primary. Hilarious.
Exactly, when all the numbers are in, we will learn that very few Dems were allowed to vote after the new law.
Surely you know by now that the Democratic primary is tomorrow, don't you?
About 800,000 early votes have been cast.
Do you honestly believe that ONLY Republicans voted early??????
What's more hilarious is that we have a bullshit narrative about voter suppression in the purple state of Georgia.
Yes, Georgia voter turnout has been surging as the results of recent elections have revealed and that is why the gop has introduced bills to suppress that...
WHAT new laws?
Can you even name ONE?
Please do inform me how it suppresses votes.
Got a link or just lip service?
How many links will it take for you to admit it?
A "news" article. So all you have is lip service and you want to play "Telephone". I guess you can't find this supposed bill.
You asked. I delivered. So, you may "Fuck Off".
And in normal liberal fashion you half assed the delivery.
I second that today and every day.
Second place again, but keep trying, you may get first one day.
See 2.2.3 Second sentence.
Wash
Rinse
Repeat
It takes a second washing to get you hair clean, what have you been doing?
Could it be the office needs coffee & donuts?
An inside joke between you two?
You both think you're so clever.
Think again.
I know what you and DOTW have been doing.
Do tell?
A penny for your thoughts...
You first.
I won't hold my breath though.
You made the accusation. How about it?
Not until you answer my question.
What question?
What you think that you know greatly exceeds reality.
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That's the new way of saying "I have nothing, never had anything and will now run away".
Every US citizen has the right to vote in any US election. The time will come when those who hinder that right will be in peril. The Second Amendment is real.
When you are right, you are right.
Thank God no one is suppressing the vote in Georgia, despite the lies told by so many prominent Democrats about it.
Morning. Voting is compulsory here and if you don't you can be fined unless you have a damn good reason not to. The sheriffs are sent out to find out your reason why.
Just had our Federal election on Saturday change of Government and no one bats an eye lid. Results were known in 3.5 hours and that was it..
Everyone packs up and goes home. The only time there is a count back is if the seat is to close to call and the candidate wishes it. And that is pretty rare.
We use the ballot paper and pencil..easy no dramas and can vote two weeks early as I did via postal vote .
It works for us...
Morning Shona, compulsory, wow, no right to choose whether to vote or not?
Morning drinker..can vote informal or not vote at all.
You have to get your name ticked off the Electrol roll and that's it. So can waltz in, once your name is marked off can get the ballot papers, turf them in the bin and leave if you want...
I look at it as an honour and a privilege to vote, many countries don't have that right..so not a problem...
Plus you get a free snag (bbq sausage, bread and sauce) at some polling booths.
Thanks shona. I agree, I have always voted since my first time in 1972 (old fart).
I like the idea of a free snag. The closest that I’ve seen that here is buying baked goods from girls scouts at the polling location. Of which, I’m always grateful.
Not that old..I first voted 1978...and haven't missed one since...
"To go in there and vote as easily as I did and to be treated with the respect that I knew I deserved as an American citizen — I was really thrown back," the voter told The Post."
This lady is owed an apology from the President, the media and the corporations who tried to manipulate and scare her with their dishonest fearmongering. They lied to her.
Arvo Sean ..
I must be missing something here...what has colour or economic circumstances have to do with the voting over there??
Here makes no difference if you are unemployed or a multi millionaire...if you are black, white or come from Mars...if you are an Aussie citizen then you must vote. No one can stop you full stop...and as for the media who gives a rabbits what they think or say...you learn to sieve the crap from the fact..
Respect here is a given in a polling booth regardless of who you are...is it not the same there? How can they show you disrespect in a polling booth??
Maybe this is why things always seem to be such a bloody big mess over there at election time or can you enlighten me..I am fascinated to know now..
Shona,
When Georgia passed SB202 (Election Integrity Act of 2021) it was widely proclaimed to be a Republican led law to suppress the black vote. There were huge news stories around it, Democrat politicians from President Biden on down all denounced the bill with Biden stating it was a "Jim Crow on steroids" law. Stacy Abrams was part of a group that convienced Major League Baseball to pull the All Star game out of Atlanta due to the law. Huge fight.
Now that the voting is exceeding the numbers for the 2020 elections will any of them come back to admit they were wrong? Doubtful.. But the huge push by the left was that the law had only one purpose, to prevent blacks from voting by making it as difficult as possible for them.
That's how it is and we on the left are correct. Your continued denial doesn't change the fact. Your continual support of the 'right' is so obvious and blame of the left for everything is also so obvious.
And how's that belief working out in the State of Georgia right now? Any comments about what is happening there?
What about it? What are you whining about now?
The state where trumpturd told them how many votes to find?
That state that didn't oblige him.
I'm not whining at all, that's all in your imagination. My post in 6.1.1 was a direct reply to Shona who seemed to question something in Sean's comment. Your reply shows you don't follow current news so I asked you how your belief that the the laws were just voter suppression are working out and matching up to expectations in Georgia. You know Georgia, the state that just shattered voting count records with it's Republican primary?
Do you have anything to say that matches what is actually happening or will you just continue to deflect?
The state that lefties told us was suppressing votes!
That's only so even you can see it.
ust be missing something here...what has colour or economic circumstances have to do with the voting over there??
Shona, to add onto what Snuffy said, nothing. "Voter suppression" of minorities is the Democratic Party's phantom menace that they've been pushing for the last twenty years every time they lose an election. While Trump complains of dishonest vote counting, Democrats since the 2000 election have pushed a conspiracy that minorities are prevented from voting by racist laws and those suppressed voters cost Democrats elections. The lie serves two main purposes in that it explains away election losses without any need for reflection and as the racialist party that needs almost unanimous support from blacks in particular to compete, creates fear and the belief Republicans are out to get them.
The suppression "Big Lie" has no basis in reality, as the numbers demonstrate. Voting is easier and more convenient than ever, and minority voting participation continues to increase. In fact, the more minorities vote, the shriller the Democrats get about suppression.
That this conspiracy mongering undermines our Democracy and, as you say, makes our election seem such a mess, is not a concern to those who push the lie. Pushing the conspiracy is actually career booster. The new spokesman for Joe Biden has a history of pushing the Big Lie about stolen elections.
In any red state there is voter suppression going on of Democratic/Liberals/Progressives voters.
Tell us how it works...
No, I'm not the one who is deflecting here or anywhere.
Except that's all you do is deflect or snipe. My initial comment was a reply to Shona about the so-called voter suppression law that Georgia passed which is the topic of this seed. Your first comment was to explain that Democrats are correct in their definition of the Georgia law. So I asked you to explain in light of what is actually occurring in Georgia with the current elections. You then had to deflect with Trump.
You actually said this...
When all your comments are only in support of the 'left' and you continue to blame the right for everything or deflect to Trump. Why can't you actually reply to the conversation?
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The premise of the seeded article is seriously flawed.
Voter supression doesnt GUARANTEE less voting, it just encourages less voting. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it wont.
There is no logical reason to make voting more difficult than it had been, whether or not people "overcome" the changes.
The real premise is that there was no suppression.
gee, 800,000 early voters didn't seem too inconvenienced.
What bullshit. This vote is proving the Democrats and their media sycophants wrong beyond all doubt. So now moving the goal posts to "This is voter suppression despite all evidence to the contrary in actual voting."
Do tell John, what changes did they have to "overcome"? Be specific. Detail with actual voters there the actual hardships they had in voting. Shouldn't be hard to find them if they had to overcome so many challenges.
“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick … deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work.” Biden, March 25
“Among the outrageous parts of this new state law, it ends voting hours early so working people can’t cast their vote after their shift is over.” Biden, March 26
On Election Day in Georgia, polling places are open from 7 am to 7 pm, if you are in line by 7 pm, you are allowed to vote.
Meanwhile in Georgia...
15 GEORGIA FACTS THAT SUPPORT OUR DEMAND FOR AN AUDIT :
So ANOTHER AUDIT?
How many more?
Will they find the 'right' amount of votes this time?
No.
How many more?
Audits only confirm the tally, whether it was right or wrong.
Gee, looking at this laundry list of conspiracy theories one would get the impression that every single vote in Georgia was illegal. Except the ones for Trump of course.
The downfall of this election tampering madness is the overkill. They want us to believe that every Democratic election official in the swing states was trying to cheat. It is beyond absurd and only serves to prove how insane the right is about this topic.
Have you ever heard of Harry Truman?
So initially the call was that the voter law passed in Georgia last year was Jim Crow 2.0 designed to suppress black voters. With the large turnout in the Republican primaries, it's now shifted to be a law designed to suppress Democrat party voters. Can't wait to see the numbers for today's Democratic primaries in Georgia. And of course to see how they twist the blame next...