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My final thought about this is that the real lesson may be that this shows what happens when attempts to suppress voting are rushed through without normal process (hearings, evidence, etc), they fail to achieve their goal. So, if it’s true that no votes were suppressed in this one election, I conclude that the vote suppressing goals of the GA GOP were simply not achieved. The GA GOP did not rush these measures through because (a) there was actual evidence of cheating, or (b) they wanted to make it easier for Democrats to vote. Also, the increase in voting says nothing about the issue of cheating. And, in reality, there was no evidence of cheating and such evidence as has developed elsewhere has almost entirely been by Republican supporters of Donald Trump. Finally, there are other parts of the laws adopted in various states, and I think GA was one, that are designed to enable Republican-controlled legislatures to override the election results in 2024. If that happens, you can reasonably expect the country will descend into civil war. I doubt that’s what you personally want, but I can assure you the Republican Party is not going to be allowed to just install their chosen leader in the presidency in defiance of the votes of the people. That’s what Trump tried on January 6 last year. He continues promoting the Big Lie and is supported in that by many Republican officials. Doing it through state legislatures isn’t going to work either.
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So you continue to condemn the GA election reform law even after it was shown not to cause the “voter suppression” you assured your readers would occur. Who cares about empirical evidence? You also claim there was no need for the law because “there was no cheating” in the 2020 election. You are very sure of this, so sure that anybody who claims otherwise is spreading a “Big Lie.” Thus, you are absolutely certain that organized, systemic voter fraud could not possibly have occurred in 2020 in GA and elsewhere that altered the outcome of the election.
Have you seen 2,000 Mules, Paul?
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Hey Paul, I thought you’d be interested in the following story: https://news.yahoo.com › georgia-early-voting-shatters-records-213543834.html
Georgia early voting shatters records despite election reforms Dems …
So it turns out that the GA election law that you and other libs lost your minds over doesn’t “suppress” voters after all. Imagine that. Of course I don’t expect you to admit your hysterical and uninformed “Caw Caw!” post was colossally wrong, I’m sure you’ll just move on to your next faux outrage.
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I have neither the time nor inclination to investigate this in depth, but it looks like it was Republicans voting in vastly larger numbers primarily. Especially compared to 2018, the most recent comparable set of primary contests.
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Actually Paul, voting surged in both Democrat and Republican primaries in GA, even exceeding the totals in the 2020 general election (which normally attracts much greater participation than primaries). The most salient point is that there is zero evidence that any demographic in GA, including minority voters, were in any way suppressed or inhibited from voting. That certainly indicates that the GA election integrity law succeeded in its goal of making it “easier to vote but harder to cheat.” The Left’s claim that the GA law was a new form of “Jim Crow” was always an outrageous lie, and you perpetuated it with your own inflammatory and fallacious post. Now that the lie has been exposed, I guess it’s understandable that you “have neither the time nor inclination” to address it further.
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