Democrats wrong again: Voting securities do not dampen voter turnout

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Georgia election official has blunt question for Stacey Abrams, Biden over record early voter turnout
NEWS
CHRIS ENLOE
OCTOBER 24, 2022

Georgia election officials would like an apology from politicians — like President Joe Biden and Democrat Stacey Abrams — who claimed an election integrity law ushered in modern-day Jim Crow.
What is the background?

After Georgia passed the Election Integrity Act of 2021, Democrats claimed the law restricts voting rights and discriminates against minority voters.
"This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century. It must end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act," Biden said last March.

Abrams, on the other hand, called the law "racist" and described it as "a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie." She also claimed the law was passed because "more people of color voted, and it changed the outcome of elections in a direction that Republicans do not like."

What are Georgia officials saying?
Gabriel Sterling, COO for the Georgia secretary of state, says Democratic politicians owe Georgians an apology.
That is because Georgia voters have smashed early voter turnout records in the Peach State. By Sunday morning, 740,615 voters had voted in person. Through the same time period in the previous midterm election, just 428,413 voters had turned out to vote early.

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In fact, between in-person and absentee ballots, nearly 817,000 Georgians have already cast their 2022 votes. That number continued to balloon on Sunday.
"How many turnout records do we have to break before Stacey Abrams and President Biden apologize to Georgia?" Sterling said in a statement to Fox News.

Meanwhile, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) explained, "We’re on track to break records in terms of voter turnout in every category."
What is the response?
According to those who oppose Georgia's election integrity law, record voter turnout does not prove the law does not restrict voting access.

"High turnout is not synonymous to voter access—rather the power of organizing and the urgency of voters to remove Brian Kemp and his allies’ far-right extremism from their communities," Jaylen Black, press secretary for Abrams' campaign, told Fox News.
Indeed, some in the media are already running with that narrative: that Georgia's law is about restricting voting access, but Democrats have negated its impacts through voter mobilization.

"The early results in Georgia are consistent with the outcomes of other voting restrictions. Evidence suggests voter suppression has little effect on turnout, because Democrats mobilize in response to restrictions, canceling out much or all of the suppressive effect," wrote Jonathan Chait in New York magazine.
Theories aside, if Georgia voters continue showing up en masse like they did during the first week of early voting, liberals will no longer be able to claim in good faith that Georgia vote

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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

Hey, so how do you feel about the fact that Texas past legislature requiring people to have photo IDs in order to vote, then shut down the DMVs in 80+ rural counties to prevent eligible voters from registering?

Shoutout to @ElwoodBlues for that tidbit.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@LordShadowfireAnother Texas classic voter suppression tactic is allowing only one ballot drop box per county for early voting. So Loving County, with 62 residents, would have one, and Harris County, with 4,731,145 residents, would have one. Oh, Harris County tends to vote Democratic, while Loving County is Republican.

marke · 70-79, M

@LordShadowfire

You are conflicting two separate issues. If governments have to scale back due to budget shortages, that affects everyone the same regardless of skin color and has nothing to do with color unless it is the color of money.

The majority of voters in a state or locality pass election and voting laws designed to help the entire community, not just select groups divided by race. The divisive racist narratives are mostly fabrications of wicked liars and crooks seeking to delude rubes into going along with their evil plans.

marke · 70-79, M

@windinhishair

Another Texas classic voter suppression tactic is allowing only one ballot drop box per county for early voting. So Loving County, with 62 residents, would have one, and Harris County, with 4,731,145 residents, would have one. Oh, Harris County tends to vote Democratic, while Loving County is Republican.

Ballot boxes are invitations to crooks to commit voter fraud. Some states don't even allow ballot boxes. Some states do not allow observers to watch ballot boxes to insure no crimes are committed. Reducing the number of ballot boxes is not racist, complaining about not being able to commit fraud is becoming a racist issue by crooks who claim nearly everything and everybody is racist.

NerdyPotato · M

@marke it's not separate though. Everyone needs a photo ID and many people can't get one. The reason for it becoming hard to get a photo ID may or may not be related to elections, but the result does affect them. How is it a fair democratic process to require something to vote that many people can't get?

marke · 70-79, M

@NerdyPotato

it's not separate though. Everyone needs a photo ID and many people can't get one. The reason for it becoming hard to get a photo ID may or may not be related to elections, but the result does affect them. How is it a fair democratic process to require something to vote that many people can't get?

Perhaps it is a little more trouble having to get an ID to vote but isn't a little trouble worth going to in order to stop someone from stealing your vote with a fraudulent vote? And getting an ID is not a partisan issue. If it is a little trouble to some then that trouble is evenly divided among people of different races and backgrounds on both sides of the political aisle.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@marke So in your view, providing ballot boxes in areas with white areas, but not in areas with high black populations, would not be racist in any way. And having one box in a county of over 4,000,000 residents is just fine? Or is it one box too many, since some people would still be able to use it. Do you even think people in urban areas should be able to vote?

marke · 70-79, M

@windinhishair

So in your view, providing ballot boxes in areas with white areas, but not in areas with high black populations, would not be racist in any way. And having one box in a county of over 4,000,000 residents is just fine? Or is it one box too many, since some people would still be able to use it. Do you even think people in urban areas should be able to vote?

In my view, dozens of boxes with thousands of Biden ballots arriving after legal deadlines with no required chain-of-custody records and counted with no observers present are a violation of law no matter what skin color prevails in the neighborhood.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@marke You've said that a few times already. It is no more true the fourth or fifth time than it was the first. There remains no evidence that it occurred.

NerdyPotato · M

@marke if fraud were a problem, then making voting more secure at the cost of a little hassle would be good, yes. But elections are secure without them, and sometimes it's made almost impossible to get a voter ID rather than a little hassle. Add in that more hurdles are introduced in counties historically known to vote democrat than there are implemented in republican counties, and it very much becomes partisan and a tool to change the election outcome rather than making it more secure.

marke · 70-79, M

@NerdyPotato

if fraud were a problem, then making voting more secure at the cost of a little hassle would be good, yes. But elections are secure without them, and sometimes it's made almost impossible to get a voter ID rather than a little hassle. Add in that more hurdles are introduced in counties historically known to vote democrat than there are implemented in republican counties, and it very much becomes partisan and a tool to change the election outcome rather than making it more secure.

Dozens of major issues related to serious appearances of voter fraud remain unanswered by those who claim without evidentiary support that no fraud took place.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@marke The issues have been addressed multiple times in the 61 failed lawsuits. There has been no evidence of voter fraud, despite many attempts to fabricate information by election deniers. I have no doubt they will continue to do so, as you have.

NerdyPotato · M

@marke you can't prove a negative. It's up to those who claim that fraud did happen to prove it, and none of them have supplied one bit. Well, unless you count that one republican vote from a dead person or Trump urging that guy to find extra votes for him of course. But nothing massive that actually changed the results.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@marke

those who claim without evidentiary support that no fraud took place

Sorry, Sparky. Accusations leveled without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Go find some or shut up.