Democrats and their media cronies are outraged by new election laws in Georgia that “are nothing less than Jim Crow 2.0.” Well, boo-hoo-hoo, because it was their blessed saint, Barack Obama, who said elections have consequences. They brought this on themselves, losing 103 of 180 House seats (57.2%), 34 of 56 Senate seats (60.6%), 9 of 9 statewide offices (100%), and leaving evidence they gamed the system to elect Joe Biden.
In fact, Georgia’s GOP legislators are empowered by the US Constitution (Article I, Section 4, Clause 1) to change their state’s election laws – just as California’s Dem legislators enacted ballot-harvesting laws. Republicans won 60% (146 of 245) of Georgia’s elected offices – more democratic support than enjoyed by Virginia Democrats (55%), who just restored the right to vote to 69,000 felons.
Georgia’s GOP has conducted a post-election autopsy that includes the “shadow campaign” reported in Time magazine. Read it for yourself: it is reasonable to conclude election changes are in order. Hence, the new election law requires absentee voters to provide ID (replacing signature verification) and stops the state from mass-mailing un-solicited applications for absentee ballots. Six other notable changes in the law:
- Expands early in-person voting by mandating two Saturdays statewide and allowing counties to add two Sundays (a nod to the “soul to the poll” tradition of black churches). Also mandated are three weeks of early in-person voting at sites open from eight to twelve hours.
- Strips power from the Secretary of State, empowers the State Election Board, and puts county election boards on notice (they can be suspended for fault during an election)
- Restricts ballot drop boxes to early-voting locations and stops their use four days prior to Election Day.
- Tightens rules for third-party election influencers, outlawing private money going to election officials (e.g. Mark Zuckerberg’s $350,000,000 campaign in 2020)
- Reduces time between Election Day and run-off elections from nine to four weeks
Of course, the partisan election watchdogs have made their proclamations. The Susan B. Anthony List called it a step “toward restored trust and confidence in elections.” Fair Fight called the changes “blatantly unconstitutional efforts” – no surprise because it was begun by Stacey Abrams; loser to GOP Governor Brian Kemp by 55,000 votes and top shill for Democrats in their Count Every Vote charade.
According to Ms. Abrams, every GOP solution preserves white supremacy. How convenient for Democrats: a woke media can’t criticize an obese woman of color for calling Governor Kemp a “cartoon villain” and “architect of voter suppression.” She plays identity-politics 24-7, gets paid well to do so, and claims aggrieved victim status – even with a Yale law degree and after holding elected office.
Back to the Georgia law, the Wall Street Journal’s Karl Rove rebuts leftist charges of “Jim Crow in a suit and tie” by stating deep-blue California and New Jersey also have voter ID requirements; California when registering to vote, and New Jersey when registering on-line. Rove sees a Democrat double standard; condemn deep-red Iowa for poll-closing times that are the same as deep-blue California, Delaware, and Massachusetts.
The hypocrisy is obvious: Democrats want “open and honest” elections in which Democrats alone call balls and strikes. They want (their) precinct workers matching signatures – not finding a driver’s license or social security number that takes “human error” out of the ballot-counting process. After Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State went rogue and Federal judges faulted precinct ballot counts in 2020, isn’t the new Georgia law (mostly) a good thing?
In fairness, not every Democrat is actually for voter fraud, but when’s the last time you observed one criticize Pelosi’s bill federalizing elections or Abrams for personal attacks? The law suits have already begun and, if Pelosi’s bill is signed by President Biden, the Battle for Georgia will be fought in the Supreme Court.
