{"id":132610,"date":"2022-10-23T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=132610"},"modified":"2022-10-23T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:54:05","slug":"georgia-sets-voting-records-despite-claims-that-election-reforms-would-suppress-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=132610","title":{"rendered":"Georgia sets voting records despite claims that election reform would suppress votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Biden described Georgia’s election reform as “Jim Crow 2.0”. Stacy Abrams argued that the new election law would reduce voter access. Yet both, along with those who claimed that voter reform laws would reduce voting, are constantly being proven wrong. So far, Georgia has seen large voter turnout for early voting, and are showing larger voter turnout in a growing number of categories. The election reform laws appear to have an opposite effect on the electorate than what Democrats claimed.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“We\u2019re on track to break records in terms of voter turnout in every category,” the office, led by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, told Fox News Digital. “In 2018, 223,576 Georgians voted by mail for Governor. So far this year, we\u2019ve received 239,789 requests for absentee ballots, 238,356 have been mailed out. We\u2019ll exceed 2018\u2019s total for mailed-in ballots. So far we\u2019ve been breaking the early vote record set in 2018, and we\u2019re approaching the early vote numbers in 2020.”<\/p>\n

Raffensperger\u2019s office noted that presidential years typically have much higher turnout.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the gubernatorial campaign of Stacey Abrams and asked about a potential apology from Abrams and received a statement that said high voter turnout does not invalidate voter suppression allegations.<\/p>\n

“High turnout is not synonymous to voter access\u2014rather the power of organizing and the urgency of voters to remove Brian Kemp and his allies\u2019 far-right extremism from their communities,” Jaylen Black, Press Secretary and Spokeswoman for the Abrams campaign told Fox News Digital via email. “The SOS should focus on keeping lines short, preventing our ENet system from crashing again, and empowering voters to access the ballot throughout this election cycle.”<\/p>\n

Abrams was referencing a temporary crash of the ENet online early voting system that is used to check in voters on Monday.<\/p>\n

Raffensperger’s office told Fox News Digital the crash lasted less than ten minutes and serves as another example of the high turnout.<\/p>\n

“The e-Net system went down for 8 minutes on the first day to increase the bandwidth needed because of overwhelming demand -due to the record-breaking turnout!” Mike Hassinger, Public Information Officer of Voting and Elections, said in an emailed statement. “Every eligible voter who wants to vote, can vote.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital also reached out to the White House about issuing an apology to Georgia and did not receive a response.<\/p>\n

“This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” Biden said in March 2021 about an election integrity bill that Georgia\u2019s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law. “It must end. We have a moral and Constitutional obligation to act.”<\/p>\n

Biden added that the legislation was an “attack on the right to vote” containing provisions that “effectively deny the right to vote to countless voters.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the rest of the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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