by Christopher Tremoglie at Washington Examiner
Remember all the virtue signaling and scare tactics from the Left about Georgia’s new voting laws?
With still a day before primary Election Day, voter turnout has seen a 168% increase this year compared to the state’s last midterm primary in 2018. The Democratic fearmongers who warned of voter discrimination have been proven wrong once again. How could there be record turnout in voting if the new laws were racist, draconian, and oppressive?
Remember all the virtue signaling and scare tactics from the Left about Georgia’s new voting laws?
With still a day before primary Election Day, voter turnout has seen a 168% increase this year compared to the state’s last midterm primary in 2018. The Democratic fearmongers who warned of voter discrimination have been proven wrong once again. How could there be record turnout in voting if the new laws were racist, draconian, and oppressive?
Many on the Left condemned the Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021. They bemoaned its “oppressive nature” and predicted it would cause a massive decrease in voter turnout. They even bullied Major League Baseball into pulling its All-Star Game, which was supposed to be held in Atlanta.
“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said at the time. Yet voter turnout showed this was all nonsense by Manfred. Clearly, no restrictions existed.
President Joe Biden called it “Jim Crow in the 21st century” and an “atrocity.” Vox published an article titled “Yes, the Georgia election law is that bad.” Zack Beauchamp, the article’s author, stated that the law was an example of how “imperiled American democracy is.” Democratic politicians, pundits, and the legacy media proclaimed it was racist and specifically targeted black people.
The Brennan Center for Justice also said the sky was falling. This organization…
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