Democrats' voter suppression myth exposed again as Georgians set a turnout record | Washington Examiner
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It was already clear after Georgia's primary election set new turnout records this spring, but it bears repeating once again: Democrats don't tell the truth about voting rights.
Gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams (D) and a variety of other Peach State Democrats got their entire national party worked up over Georgia's new voting law last year. They framed the state's new post-COVID voting reforms as a problem so large and so grave that they called for a boycott of their own state. They invoked lynchings and slavery. And their campaign of intimidation was not just based on faulty predictions — it was based on multiple knowingly false claims.
FIRST DAY OF EARLY VOTING IN GEORGIA SHATTERS PREVIOUS MIDTERM RECORD
Democratic activists went to great lengths to plant stories in the media, which lazy journalists dutifully filed, claiming that Georgia's new voting law was a new attempt to suppress the black vote.
These Democrats, ranging from local activists all the way up to Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and President Joe Biden, made multiple demonstrably false claims about the content of the law, even though its text was available online the entire time.
For example, they claimed that this law would shorten voting hours, which was false. They claimed it banned so-called drop boxes (that were actually illegal already) when, in fact, it mandated properly secured drop boxes under 24-hour surveillance in all 159 Georgia counties. They claimed, without credible evidence, that voting ID requirements are discriminatory. In reality, the law used voter ID to replace the highly subjective and unfair process of signature-matching on absentee ballots.
They claimed, falsely, that the law would ban giving water to people waiting in line to vote. They claimed it would limit the period for requesting absentee ballots, which it did — but the limit was created to prevent last-second requests. It is not even slightly unreasonable to make people request absentee ballots more than 11 days before Election Day. As Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, calmly described at the time, the existing system was actually causing people to be disenfranchised because they were not getting the ballots in time to vote.
With this much-maligned law, Georgia's legislature had actually made voting more accessible to its citizens than it had been previously. They also made voting more accessible than it is in New York, New Jersey, Biden's Delaware, and a variety of other states that Democrats would never try to pretend are Jim Crow states. Georgia legislators had actually expanded early voting and made it easier for almost anyone in the state to cast a valid vote.
And now, once again, the results are speaking for themselves. Raffensperger announced on Tuesday that Georgia voters just set a new record for first-day early voting in a midterm election, with nearly twice as many people voting on Monday as had done so on the first day of early voting in 2018. Georgians are on pace to set a new record for midterm turnout in 2022 and are voting at levels that rival turnout for the 2020 presidential election.
If anybody is trying to suppress the vote, they are doing a pretty lousy job of it. But of course, this was also true in 2018, another extremely high-turnout election whose results Democrats still deny.
The Democrats' falsehoods about Georgia's election law were especially damaging given the historical context. They were designed to spread misleading and highly sensitive characterizations given the lengthy history of racial voter suppression by Southern Democrats for nine decades between Reconstruction and the civil rights era.
And they were not even a little bit subtle about what they were doing. Biden himself called this law — again, a law that makes voting easier than it is in Delaware — "Jim Crow on steroids." Biden even said it made "Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle," whatever that is supposed to mean. He shamefully joined in Abrams's calls for a boycott of Georgia and specifically called on the MLB to move its 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta, which it did. A variety of major corporations with a presence in Georgia were also pressured into taking a stand against the new legislation, which many of them did without even bothering to look at it — some corporate officials even admitted as much.
Again, this was not just some mistaken prediction about what this law might do. It was a very deliberate, malicious effort to create a false national narrative about democracy being under attack — a narrative that Democrats have tried to carry further forward with their shambolic Jan. 6 hearings. It was created and implemented with malice aforethought and deep political calculation with no concern at all for how all such lies would deepen political divisions and racial distrust within Georgia and the nation as a whole.
Georgians should be congratulated today for turning out to vote in record numbers. Voting participation is crucial to democracy, as is trust in election outcomes.
And the Democrats who embraced Abrams and her thoroughly discredited election suppression conspiracy theories, who defamed good people and harmed Georgia's economy for personal gain, should be deeply ashamed. Hopefully, Georgia voters have the good sense to repay them according to their deeds.
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Will the Democrats' blatant lies come back to haunt them come election time?
Certainly hope voters aren't suckered into believing these outrageous lies coming from Democrats.
Good luck, but IMO a lot of voters don't have any memory anyway. Politicians lie so much any more that a lot of people just tend to ignore the rhetoric anyway.
Jim Crow on steroids said the senile old man.
What an amazing insult that was to people who actually lived through Jim Crow.
Maybe Joe was harkening back to the Golden Age for Democrats?
Yeah, it makes them all tingly inside to imagine Jim Crow is still suppressing blacks,.
Gee, another record turnout in a state with Jim Crow laws! Who'd ever guess voters could turn out in such a racist state?
Looks like Democrats attempting to brand the GOP as racist as they were when they passed all the REAL Jim Crow laws!
When Abrams loses again, and Georgia has another record turnout, how will Democrats spin it into a case of voter suppression?
Fear not, she'll invent another lie. She never conceded in 2018, although at Monday's debate, she again lied and said she did.
And the spin doctors on the left have been working overtime since to cover for her.
She's not the only one who left wing politicians and media have been protecting. They're also running last minute defense for Fetterman, Hochul, Whitmer, Kelly, and others who are in tight mid-term races.
It's what they end up doing.
“I think this is really indicative of the national problem that we’re seeing with the current Democratic Party,” Gabbard told Laura Ingraham . “This is the sort of thing that led me to leave the Democrat party.”
She proceeded to decry “woke fanatical ideologues.”
“They’re against free speech,” Gabbard continued. “They are against democracy. They are against freedom of religion. They are against the very principles of this country, our God-given rights enshrined in our Constitution. And meanwhile, they are pushing us further and further towards the brink of nuclear war that threatens the very existence of the American people and the world."
And the hypocrisy of the left shall begin!
Begin??????
More like continues.
I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt but, you're right.
Kari Lake knows how to handle them!
More election deniers.....
Excellent video clip serving to remind us of Democrats' 2017 electoral college vote denial and vehement desire to overturn that presidential election.
More election deniers.....
Sorry about the duplicate.
It doesn't bother me at all, because it's a great example that exposes elected "leaders" as hateful, partisan hypocrites who blatantly ignored the US Constitution.