Dems Compared Georgia Election Law To Jim Crow – The State Just Broke Its Early Voting Record

Voters in Georgia shattered a voting record on Tuesday when early voting began, despite claims from Democrats that the state’s election integrity law would suppress voting.

Since 2021, Democrats and their media counterparts compared Georgia’s voting law to Jim Crow – laws that ensured most black people would not be able to vote. CNN perpetrated many of the news articles against the Georgia law, but on Tuesday reported that 328,000 ballots were cast in Georgia on the first day of early voting – a massive increase from the 2020 record of 136,000.

Gabe Sterling, from Georgia’s secretary of state’s office, announced the numbers on X, saying, “So with the record breaking 1st day of early voting and accepted absentees we have had over 328,000 total votes cast so far.”

So with the record breaking 1st day of early voting and accepted absentees we have had over 328,000 total votes cast so far. You can track this data on @GaSecofState Raffensperger’s Data Hub here: https://t.co/0mcozlOrTa pic.twitter.com/lzGdYh25Su

— Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) October 16, 2024

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp called out the media’s past claims while touting the numbers on X.

“For years, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden, and their allies in the media lied about Georgia election laws to raise campaign cash and scare people,” Kemp wrote. “It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now. Here’s the truth: in Georgia, it’s easy to vote and hard to cheat.”

For years, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden, and their allies in the media lied about Georgia election laws to raise campaign cash and scare people.

It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now. Here’s the truth: in Georgia, it’s easy to vote and hard to cheat. https://t.co/lfdlEFuma7

— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) October 15, 2024

In 2021, Georgia passed a law designed to improve election integrity, in part by requiring an ID for absentee voting. It also reduced early voting and updated voter processes and disparities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drop boxes were also moved to election offices and early voting locations and are only available during business hours. Counties in the state will also have to certify the results within six days instead of 10 and must complete counting ballots once counting has started.

These changes predictably prompted Democrats and the media to claim the law would lead to voter suppression.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) compared the law to the Jim Crow era while at the same time saying Democrat candidate Stacey Abrams actually won the governor’s office in 2018.

“The Republican who is sitting in Stacey Abrams’ chair just signed a despicable voter suppression bill into law to take Georgia back to Jim Crow. The Senate must pass the #ForThePeople Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act immediately — our democracy is at stake tonight,” Warren wrote on X in 2021.

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) also claimed the law would “make it harder for Georgians to vote.”

“Tonight Georgia’s legislature passed a bill brazenly intended to make it harder for Georgians to vote,” Ossoff posted to X in 2021. “Among its outrageous provisions: it criminalizes *giving water to voters who are waiting in line.* It’s no wonder Gov. Kemp hid behind closed doors while he signed it.”

President Joe Biden made the same claim.

“It’s an atrocity. The idea, you want any indication, it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency. They pass a law saying you can’t provide water for people standing in line, while they’re waiting to vote.  You don’t need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. You can’t provide water for people about to vote? Give me a break,” Biden said in 2021.

The law makes it illegal to give money or gifts to voters – including food and drink – but doesn’t make it illegal for poll workers to make self-service water available to those waiting in line to vote. The law is meant to keep people from soliciting votes by giving gifts, not harm people waiting to vote.

Vice President Kamala Harris also called the law voter suppression, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the law is a “renewed attempt to suppress the ability of people to vote.”

Major League Baseball moved its annual All-Star game from Atlanta because of the law. The game was moved to Denver, which also required ID to vote and was a far less diverse city than Atlanta, The Daily Wire reported at the time. In 2023, the All-Star game returned to Atlanta.

Leftist media outlets also made wild claims about the Georgia law, leading to widespread voter suppression.

CNN was one of the worst offenders, with headlines such as “Putting ‘cologne on Jim Crow’: Georgia GOP lawmakers drive toward new voting restrictions,” “Georgia’s new law suppressing the vote is a victory for Trump,” and “‘Dripping in the blood of Jim Crow’: Voting rights groups say GOP-backed bills in Georgia target Black voters.”

Now, CNN has admitted that it is easier to vote in Democrat strongholds like Atlanta. One Atlanta-area voter told the outlet that the last time she voted, “the lines were out the door.”

“They only had like, maybe like three people working,” the voter said. “So, people honestly just started leaving because it was like that. Yeah, like, ‘This is too long. I can’t sit here (and) wait, I have to go back to work.’ But here, no, it was easy.”