OF COURSE...WHAT ELSE DO THEY HAVE??? OTHER THAN "BLACK PEOPLE ARE TOO STUPID TO GET IDs"...?
Why all the lies about Georgia's new voting law?
To hear Democrats and the media tell it, Georgia has just undone the civil rights era. The state’s new election reform law, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp, they say, is an attempt to disenfranchise millions and return to the Jim Crow era.
This narrative is both false and ridiculous.
The story, in brief, is this: Democrats find it politically advantageous to cry that minority voters are being disenfranchised, and so they are doing so once again. And once again, the largest media outlets are going along with the cynical ploy.
Georgia’s new voting reform law contains simple, commonsense measures, most of which — and this will shock you if your understanding of the law comes from CNN or President Joe Biden — will make it easier for people to vote. Some of its provisions rightly protect the voting process from the (very real) risk of fraud, a risk that grows as more votes are cast by mail.
But for the Left, Georgia has long been a truth-free zone, and Democrats have found this arrangement agreeable.
In 2018, Democrats made and the media parroted multiple false and dishonest claims about disenfranchisement in the 2018 Georgia governor’s race. The media indulged the ludicrous fantasy, every bit as ludicrous as the fantasies that precipitated the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol this year, that Stacey Abrams had that race stolen from her. It worked.
There are no incentives now to tell the truth. This is all part of a political scheme.
Biden himself misled about the Georgia voting law during his first press conference, claiming that it forced polling places to close at 5 p.m., “so working people can’t cast their vote after their shift is over.” In fact, the law merely requires polling places during early voting to stay open until at least 5 p.m., giving them discretion to stay open until 7 p.m. This is an expansion of voting hours, not a contraction of them.
Another provision that has somehow aroused all sorts of anger in the media is the one barring political campaigners from bribing voters with money, food, water, etc. within 150 feet of a polling place. This provision is already the law in many states, including New York. Liberals are not suddenly outraged by it. The outrage is entirely manufactured and disingenuous. Election workers and community volunteers will still be permitted to distribute food and water to voters in line.
Finally, the law contains perfectly commonsense requirements that absentee voters provide appropriate proof of identity when requesting their ballots and request their ballot within a perfectly reasonable nine-week window — not the six-month period that was permitted in the 2020 election.
Democrats only just Wednesday backed down from attempting to overthrow the election result in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District after a poll made it clear how unpopular that would be. They still won’t acknowledge the result of the 2018 Georgia governor’s race, and indeed they still do not accept the 2016 presidential election result. This is all evidence that they only respect voters’ rights when the voters vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/why-all-the-lies-about-georgias-new-voting-law
Why all the lies about Georgia's new voting law?
To hear Democrats and the media tell it, Georgia has just undone the civil rights era. The state’s new election reform law, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp, they say, is an attempt to disenfranchise millions and return to the Jim Crow era.
This narrative is both false and ridiculous.
The story, in brief, is this: Democrats find it politically advantageous to cry that minority voters are being disenfranchised, and so they are doing so once again. And once again, the largest media outlets are going along with the cynical ploy.
Georgia’s new voting reform law contains simple, commonsense measures, most of which — and this will shock you if your understanding of the law comes from CNN or President Joe Biden — will make it easier for people to vote. Some of its provisions rightly protect the voting process from the (very real) risk of fraud, a risk that grows as more votes are cast by mail.
But for the Left, Georgia has long been a truth-free zone, and Democrats have found this arrangement agreeable.
In 2018, Democrats made and the media parroted multiple false and dishonest claims about disenfranchisement in the 2018 Georgia governor’s race. The media indulged the ludicrous fantasy, every bit as ludicrous as the fantasies that precipitated the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol this year, that Stacey Abrams had that race stolen from her. It worked.
There are no incentives now to tell the truth. This is all part of a political scheme.
Biden himself misled about the Georgia voting law during his first press conference, claiming that it forced polling places to close at 5 p.m., “so working people can’t cast their vote after their shift is over.” In fact, the law merely requires polling places during early voting to stay open until at least 5 p.m., giving them discretion to stay open until 7 p.m. This is an expansion of voting hours, not a contraction of them.
Another provision that has somehow aroused all sorts of anger in the media is the one barring political campaigners from bribing voters with money, food, water, etc. within 150 feet of a polling place. This provision is already the law in many states, including New York. Liberals are not suddenly outraged by it. The outrage is entirely manufactured and disingenuous. Election workers and community volunteers will still be permitted to distribute food and water to voters in line.
Finally, the law contains perfectly commonsense requirements that absentee voters provide appropriate proof of identity when requesting their ballots and request their ballot within a perfectly reasonable nine-week window — not the six-month period that was permitted in the 2020 election.
Democrats only just Wednesday backed down from attempting to overthrow the election result in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District after a poll made it clear how unpopular that would be. They still won’t acknowledge the result of the 2018 Georgia governor’s race, and indeed they still do not accept the 2016 presidential election result. This is all evidence that they only respect voters’ rights when the voters vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/why-all-the-lies-about-georgias-new-voting-law
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