Against all expectations and predictions from Democrats, the Georgia primary last Tuesday went off without a hitch. Not only that, but record early-voting turnout — including unprecedented minority participation — gave the lie to all the naysayers who called the law “Jim Crow on steroids.”
But for the left, there’s still time for their dire fantasies about the law to come true. Just you wait until November, they’re now saying. The general election will be a different story.
But voting rights groups and Democrats, while celebrating the high participation rates, had a different interpretation: The high turnout, they argued, was an outgrowth of years of painstaking efforts to register and mobilize voters — not a reflection of the Election Integrity Act, which is also known as Senate Bill 202. And just because the primary went smoothly, they said, doesn’t mean there won’t be trouble in November.
“Great efforts have been made by the faith community to organize, educate and prepare voters for S.B. 202. But comparing a primary to the general is like comparing apples to oranges,” said Bishop Reginald Jackson, who leads a group of more than 500 African Methodist Episcopal churches in Georgia that conducted voter registration and education efforts.
Did you get that? After spending months trying to scare the hell out of black voters by hysterically overexaggerating and outright lying about what the law would do, they’re taking credit for the increase in turnout by claiming it was their hard work registering and mobilizing the voters that led to the historic increases.
Isn’t that the point? The law was never, ever going to limit anyone’s right to vote. Ever. It can’t be said enough because the left is continuing to lie about the law. They refuse to own up to their political machinations and shameless scare tactics.
The rejection rates in 2018 reflected a significant racial disparity. That year,around 5 percent of Black voters’ ballots were rejected, while just 3.6 percent of White voters’ were. This year, the figures were 1.2 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively, according to data on voter ethnicity from the voter file company L2.
“Where is Jim Crow when you need him,” Democrats are asking?
Critics of S.B. 202 accused its Republican authors of making it harder to apply for a mail ballot by moving up the deadline. Missing the deadline was the most common reason applications were rejected.
But some nonpartisan voting advocates spoke out in favor of the new deadline, which was intended to establish a cutoff so that voters would not receive ballots so close to the election that they would not be able to return them in time.
Every objection that the law’s opponents claimed would lead blacks in Georgia back to slavery was shown to be embarrassingly wrong. So why should anyone expect that the general election in November will be any different?
“Apples to Oranges,” said Bishop Reginald Jackson. That’s silly. The procedures are the same. The law is the same. If anything, the vote will go smoother since there are bound to be more voting machines, volunteers, and paid staff to keep things on track.
The more the left is proved wrong about this law, the more desperate they are to find something to complain about.
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