Jessica McGowan/Getty Images Georgian voters turned out in record numbers to vote in the 2022 primary election, in a complete beating ...
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Georgian voters turned out in record numbers to vote in the 2022 primary election, in a complete beating of the leftist media narrative that the electoral reform law enacted last year amounted to “Jim Crow 2.0”.
The law was met with outrageous claims from cable news pundits when it was signed into law.
MSNBC Host Joy Reid called the law like “putting Georgia back on an express train in Jim Crow times”.
“These laws are not only stupid, these laws are not only racist, but they are destructive to a functioning democracy”, mentioned MSNBC Contributor Jason Johnson.
MSNBC anchor Tiffany Cross called Georgia’s “voter suppression” law.
CNN anchor Don Lemon tagged it “Jim Crow 2.0” and “nothing less than an attack on the right to vote”.
The Washington Post Editorial Committee declared that “the law as a whole makes voting unnecessarily more difficult and without strong political justification”.
Ultimately, Tuesday’s Peach State primary and the weeks leading up to it demonstrated just how misleading these fearmongering proclamations truly are.
Early voting, which was extended under the new law, consisted of “more than 850,000 people to vote in person or return an absentee ballot” – a 212% increase from 2020 and a 168% increase from 2018 , according to Office of the Georgia Secretary of State.
In total, more than 860,000 people vote in the Georgia primaries because there were significant increases in the number of Republican and Democratic voters, according to that office.
Moreover, voters would have encountered queues at the polls.
“I had heard that they were going to try to dissuade us in every way possible because of the fact that we did not become Republicans in the last election, while Trump did not win”, patrick reida 70-year-old black voter, said The Washington Post of his early voting experience. “To go out there and vote as easily as I did and be treated with the respect I knew I deserved as an American citizen – I was really pushed back.”
A mea culpa from those in the media who have denounced Georgia’s electoral law is warranted. Don’t hold your breath, though.
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