Georgia Republicans can’t admit the real reason they’re restricting voting

[Rogue Valley]

Georgia Republicans can’t admit the real reason they’re restricting voting

4/5/21
Republicans did not respond to their defeat in 2020 — they failed to take back the House and lost the Senate and White House, albeit by narrow margins — by trying to broaden their appeal. They responded by introducing more than 360 bills in 47 states that restrict voting. The first swing state where their efforts have paid off is Georgia, which former president Donald Trump lost by just 11,779 votes. Nearly 200 companies joined in a statement on Friday against voting restrictions in Georgia and other states, hometown icons Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines have condemned the Georgia bill, and Major League Baseball announced on Friday that it is moving this summer’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest. This, in turn, has led to a hysterical GOP backlash against “woke corporate hypocrites.” The very lawmakers who regularly fulminate against “cancel culture” now want to cancel MLB’s antitrust exemption. Move over, Dr. Seuss. The right has found a new front in its never-ending culture war. As in any war, truth is the first casualty in this conflict. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) claims that criticism of the legislation is misplaced because it actually “expands” voting access. But a meticulous New York Times examination found that these provisions are far outweighed by 16 measures that restrict voting access — especially in urban areas where minority voters are concentrated.

In the core of metropolitan Atlanta, the number of drop boxes for absentee ballots will be reduced from 94 to no more than 23. Election officials will be banned from sending absentee ballots to all voters. Mobile voting centers will essentially be discontinued. New ID requirements will be instituted. Outside groups will be prohibited from offering food or water to voters waiting in long lines even on hot and humid days. (Long lines are one of the leading reasons cited for not voting.) Some of the act’s most worrisome provisions give the Republican-controlled legislature more control over disputed results. The legislature can now suspend county election officials. Why is Georgia moving to restrict voting? Republicans can’t answer that basic question with a straight face because an honest response would expose their authoritarianism and racism. A recent analysis from the Mitre Corp., a nonpartisan research organization, found “no evidence of fraud, manipulation, or uncorrected error” in eight battleground states, including Georgia.The law’s ostensible justification is to combat voter fraud — except there isn’t any significant fraud. The Georgia law was obviously passed not to crack down on nonexistent voter fraud but to make it harder for Democrats to win elections by making it more difficult for their supporters to vote.

Republicans filed 60 lawsuits to uncover voter fraud in the 2020 elections. None of these GOP lawsuits proved fruitful. So then, why the new Georgia voting laws and why now?

1) Georgians elected Raphael Warnock who is the first African American to represent Georgia in the Senate and the first African-American Democrat elected to a Senate seat by a former state of the Confederacy.

2) Joe Biden won the Electoral College 306 to 232. Joe Biden won the popular vote 81,283,098 votes to Trump's 74,222,958 votes.

3) Since the GOP has no policies that entice new voters, the only way for them to win national elections now is via restrictive voting laws and obscene gerrymandering.

 

[Mycroft]

Georgia Republicans can’t admit the real reason they’re restricting voting

Republicans filed 60 lawsuits to uncover voter fraud in the 2020 elections. None of these GOP lawsuits proved fruitful. So then, why the new Georgia voting laws and why now?

1) Georgians elected Raphael Warnock who is the first African American to represent Georgia in the Senate and the first African-American Democrat elected to a Senate seat by a former state of the Confederacy.

2) Joe Biden won the Electoral College 306 to 232. Joe Biden won the popular vote 81,283,098 votes to Trump's 74,222,958 votes.

3) Since the GOP has no policies that entice new voters, the only way for them to win national elections now is via restrictive voting laws and obscene gerrymandering.

There is nothing in that GA law that restricts voting.

 

[GDViking]

There is nothing in that GA law that restricts voting.

You just keep repeating that...

Unfortunately reality disagrees...

 

[Questerr]

They’ve freely admitted it. In both speeches and court filings.

The more people who vote, the less likely Republicans are to win.

 

[Helix]

They don't have to admit that they are suppressing the vote to give Republicans a better chance at winning.

 

[Mycroft]

You just keep repeating that...

Unfortunately reality disagrees...

shrug...

Provide evidence that proves me wrong if you disagree with me.