GA Voter Supression Debate Misses the Point

[j brown's body]

"This is why efforts to narrowly measure the impact of the law on turnout so badly miss the larger story here. There is a place for such measurement, of course. But it ignores the vast civic degradation that this entire post-election campaign from Republicans has wrought. Even if voters who might be burdened by these measures do turn out anyway, they still constitute an effort to make it harder to vote for cynical partisan purposes, an act of deep contempt for fellow citizens, based on fictions that are themselves having a terrible impact.

Note that a new Reuters poll finds that 6 in 10 Republican respondents believe that the election was stolen from Trump. As former GOP strategist Tim Miller points out, Republican officials deliberately passed up the opportunity to disabuse GOP voters of this lie. You cannot seriously evaluate the Georgia law without reckoning with its role in the much broader campaign that’s unfolding here, and with all the damage it is doing.

Indeed, that is central to understanding why corporations are reacting this way. Numerous corporations began putting out statements much earlier, to condemn Republican efforts to overturn the election. So this whole display isn’t just about Georgia. It may reflect a broader cultural impulse toward defending democracy and toward the need to denounce serious threats to it."

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Say what you will about the GA voter law it:

1. makes it harder to vote.
2. is not a response to voter fraud, it is a cynical ploy to placate the ego of a very sick man, and possibly suppress the vote enough to win again(even to the degree that they can overturn the results).
3. comes on the heels of a defeated president who lies about the election being stolen from him, which has caused:

• Republican elected officials to carry this banner for him and lie to their constituents about it which has caused:
• the majority members of a major poltical party to lose faith in the democratic process.

4. And this, ripping the country apart.

 

[dockside]

Not only does it attempt to suppress votes by minorities or the poor or anyone else who might vote for a Democrat, it is far worse. As your article states, even if all those who would be affected by these attempts to make it more difficult to vote were able to overcome them and vote, the state legislature could override the vote results. This is what is most alarming and seems to be an attempt to copy Nazi Germany's successful attempt to establish an autocratic government with the Republicans in control.

I read one complaint and the lawyers didn't even mention this part of the law which more or less overrides any victory these lawyers might obtain unless the entire law is ruled unconstitutional.