Georgians broke voter-turnout records in the 2022 primary and general election, but Democrats have no intention of abandoning the “Jim Crow 2.0” narrative.
The state set records in a midterm election for early voting, absentee voting and total turnout. More Election Day votes were cast in the Senate runoff election last week than in the general election, the January 2021 Senate runoff or on Election Day 2020.
The state also set three single-day early voting records.
Even the victory of Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock over Republican Herschel Walker in the runoff election did not stop Democratic Party leaders from blasting Georgia’s 2021 Election Integrity Act as a voter suppression tool.
It prompted eye-rolls from conservatives.
“I take it to mean there is no set of facts that will ever, ever be able to dissuade progressive politicians like President Biden, like Rafael Warnock, like Stacey Abrams, from their voter-suppression argument,” said Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project. “It’s a narrative that has absolutely no support in the facts.”
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, insisted that Mr. Warnock won in spite of the state’s election law, known as Senate Bill 202, which tightened up pandemic-era voting procedures while expanding early voting.
“What happened in Georgia, despite the efforts of the Republican legislature to make it harder to vote, our people voted. People voted. Georgians voted,” Mr. Schumer said at a...
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