October 26, 2012 - 2:32 pm
According to state elections officials, 688,369 Georgians, of which 33 percent were black, had already voted in the presidential contest as of Thursday.
Should the preliminary rate of participation remain steady through the close of polling on November 6, this year’s election will be recorded as the single largest black voter turn out event in state history.
The state had one of the nation’s earliest voter ID laws and the gloom and doom disenfranchisement predictions began immediately. Voter participation by African Americans hit historic highs two years after it passed (for the 2008 election) and now appears on track to outpace those numbers. This despite the fact that overall early voting numbers in Georgia are down from 2008.
Strange, I just got off the AJC website before coming here. Didn’t read this–though it could have been there, deep down.
There was definitely no mention of Benghazi today. Nor, for some reason, Ted Turner.
Fine paper. Maybe they can stalk Richard Jewell’s grave so the major media players think they are in the big leagues, always on the hunt for the big story.
Except that record turnout in no way means that disenfranchisement didn’t occur. It’s simple math. Your argument is based on using a stat to say something it never said.
Look, we are going to have Voter ID, and no willy-wishing it away is going to change that. Get used to the new reality. I have zero issues with putting a safeguard in place, but we are going to have some means of having elections, as much as humanly possible, of undisputed integrity.
Democrats are on the wrong side of history on this.
Thing is if you really cared about the integrity of the vote then you’d be going after the ways that vote fraud *actually* happens and that is emphatically not by people showing up to vote under an assumed identity. The documented cases of fraud that voter ID might catch are so infrequent as to be on par with bigfoot sightings. They are simply not a threat to vote integrity except in the fevered imagination of the right. At the same time paperless electronic ballots which have been demonstrated time and again to have serious issues are ignored.
Why?
Because fixing electronic voting doesn’t disenfranchise minorities, and that’s ALWAYS been the goal of the right’s supposed interest in vote integrity.