This thread is just so full of both stupid and win I had to bring it over.
cilla4progress (19,315 posts) Sat May 21, 2022, 04:52 PM
Backfired on 'em! Georgia voting
Voting is surging in Georgia despite controversial new election law
GRIFFIN, Ga. — When the Spalding County Board of Elections eliminated early voting on Sundays, Democrats blamed a new state law and accused the Republican-controlled board of intentionally thwarting “Souls to the Polls,” a get-out-the-vote program among Black churches to urge their congregations to cast ballots after religious services.
But after three weeks of early voting ahead of Tuesday’s primary, record-breaking turnout is undercutting predictions that the Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021 would lead to a falloff in voting. By the end of Friday, the final day of early in-person voting, nearly 800,000 Georgians had cast ballots — more than three times the number in 2018, and higher even than in 2020, a presidential year.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016323219First of all, the article headline: Voting is surging in Georgia
despite controversial new election law
Implying, of course, that the law was intended to suppress, even though it was more liberalized than the law in Biden's home state of Delaware.
Should have read: Voting is surging in Georgia
despite paranoia and outright lies about new election law
Then the idiots come to the conclusion that a law calculated to throw up insurmountable barriers to voting actually resulted in higher voting numbers, due to increased turnout. Excuse me, but doesn't higher turnout work under pretty much every election framework? And wasn't this law supposed to lower turnout despite whatever enthusiasm there might be?
So the conclusion is, to defeat voter suppression, you ... vote?
C'mon, man. That's just genius level stuff there, no matter how you cut it.
OhZone (3,160 posts)
1. "higher even than in 2020, a presidential year."
Um -
WOW!
IrishAfricanAmerican (2,846 posts)
7. This is what I have been saying all along...
the GQP has so greatly overplayed their hand, they are going to get slaughtered in the next two elections and all of their attempts to stack the deck will fail as well.
I don't know who leaked the SCOTUS decision but that was the final nail.
Star Member calimary (68,396 posts)
10. DAYUM! Does this mean people are paying attention?
(For a change?)
Star Member Marcuse (5,409 posts)
15. They can make it hard to vote, but not impossible. Who will count our hard votes?
Linda Ed (411 posts)
17. They need to get out more messages!
Democrats have better ideas, better candidates, and a better vision for tomorrow. What they don't have is BETTER MESSAGING
Glad to hear they have voted early and in droves though
Star Member Skittles (142,920 posts)
19. this is what I was hoping
that Americans would understand voter suppression is an assault on democracy, and should prompt EVERYONE to vote
But then, a plot twist:Star Member Hoyt (54,732 posts)
3. This is good and shows Stacey Abrams was right above voter education. BUT
from what I read in the Atlanta Journals, the real primary voter surge is from GOPers. We’ll have to do better in November.
cilla4progress (19,315 posts)
4. I hope that isn't so!
Will re-listen to the article. I got the impression it was due to work of Dem activists.
Star Member UGADawg (484 posts)
18. No it's Repubs voting
onenote (37,129 posts)
13. My guess is that the lion's share of the early voting is by repubs.
The fact that 800,000 have cast early ballots in and of itself doesn't mean that Democrats are voting in record numbers. Indeed, given that the the outcome of the primaries for the Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator are foregone conclusions while the repub primary for governor is drawing a lot of attention, I expect repub turnout will be much heavier than Democratic turnout in the primary.
Star Member UGADawg (484 posts)
16. It's Republicans voting per Atlanta paper today.
No big elections on Democratic side. Lots of contests on Repug side.
These guys are really on the ball.