Washington Post admits 'voting is surging in Georgia' despite previous reports, claims about voter..

Washington Post admits 'voting is surging in Georgia' despite previous reports, claims about voter suppression

The Post's editorial board previously claimed that the law made voting 'harder'

The Washington Post admitted over the weekend that the number of Georgians turning out to vote in this year's midterm election primaries was "surging," despite its previous reporting and claims that the state's new law aimed at election integrity would lead to voter suppression.

In a Saturday piece headlined, "Voting is surging in Georgia despite controversial new election law," The Post reported that early voting in Georgia was seeing its largest turnout ever, laying waste to its own claims, as well as those of Democrats and other left-wing figures, that the law, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in March 2021, amounted to Republican attempts to make it harder for people to vote.

"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 fall off in voting," reporters Amy Gardner and Matthew Brown wrote.


They noted that early in-person voting was more than three times what it was in the 2018 midterm elections, and higher than what it was in 2020, a presidential election year.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-voting-georgia-voter-suppression

Oh just too much. All the hair on fire JIM CROW, SUPPRESSION SUPPRESSION over common sense voting integrity measures. And RECORD turnout, THREE TIMES the outcome of the PRESIDENTIAL election.

OH the egg once again on the face of the Dems and the MSM.

 

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What does your hate of Trump got to do with the OP? The OP is about WAPO admitting that all their lies about Georgia's new voting laws are not having any affect on voter turnout. Its not even about candidates. Much less Trump. You should evict him from living in your brain.

 

Whether you hate Trump is your business, of course. His personal vendettas are disruptive for the Georgia GOP.

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After losing Georgia in the 2020 election, Trump worked his magic to lose the GOP Senate control.

He persists in spewing his Big Lie, and continues to wreak havoc.

I have no problem with that.

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Georgia is the worst state to live in, just ask Stacey Abrams. They don't let minorities vote and they will stop black people for a broken taillight and search their cars. Don't move to Georgia they don't want you there!

 

It's hard to imagine that the number enthusiastically turning out to vote for Biden now would be higher than it was the first time.
His popularity has only gone down.

 

This thread has nothing to do with Trump.

Now care to comment on what it is actually about?

 

Georgia has a number of voting rights organisations, and they need them.

What I am saying is that both things could be true.

But it will take a while to nail the specifics down.

 

I was responding to a poster who had evoked Trump.

Despite the loaded Fox article that states "The Washington Post admitted...", because it accurately reported voter turn-out, the barriers to voting - that were calculated to impact some demographics more than others - were effectively countered by voting rights activists. Those who hoped to suppress the vote ignore the reality that several voting rights organizations across the state (Black Voter Matter, the League of Women Voters, etc.) had been aggressively educating voters on the newly-imposed restrictions, setting up hotlines, starting grassroots educational networks, holding voter turnout promotional events on weekends, etc. Those countermeasures paid off.

Were efforts to overcome the impediments to voting effective? Clearly.

Do restrictions like making it illegal to for kind people to practice corporal works of mercy by giving water and food to suffering voters consigned to long lines in oppressive weather have an impact? No doubt.

Certainly, the high-profile races between Kemp and a Trump-endorsed opponent, and Raffensperger and a Trump-endorsed opponent increased turn-out, but the laws making voting harder for some to vote increased their resolve to do so.

That's hardly surprising.

 

"Admitted"?

*LOL*

 

OH they were are EDUCATED by COUNTERMEASURES!!!!

There were no impediments there was no Jim Crow. And electioneering has been illegal in every state forever your phony "suffering voters" notwithstanding.

 

I don't no why you expected the barriers to voting could not be largely overcome.

I never predicted lower turnout, and the extensive efforts to deal with them were, apparently, quite effective.

 

There were no barriers everyone cast their votes, no reported problems. And you are saying these 100,000's of voters were only able to cast their vote because they were educated?

What exactly did they need to be educated about? Was it just black voters who had to be educated?

 

Of course there were barriers to voting erected by Republicans. They were overcome.

High interest in the contests, resentment at being targeted by partisan restrictions, and concerted voter drives to overcome barriers, after years of sustained efforts to register and mobilize voters, all contributed to turn out.

... interviews with aggrieved voters this week revealed something of a boomerang effect, as the law actually hardened their resolve, drawing them to the polls with renewed rage to boot out the very Republican politicians who set up these restrictions.​

Depriving lines of determined voters of food and water did not seem to have much of an impact.

 

What barriers and be specific. And laws against electioneering are in place in every state what don't you get here. When a voter is IN LINE they are consider IN THE PROCESS OF VOTING and no one can give them stuff or attempt to approach them with stuff. Why do you keep citing this canard, where did anyone die of hunger or thirst trying to vote. And BTW water is available at all voting places and the persons wanting to hand it out merely have to stay 25' from the voting lines which as I said are consider part of the polling place itself.

 

Presumably, Republicans passed their additional voter requirements and restrictions to prevent some folks whom they didn't want to vote from voting. (They whined a lot about fraudulent voting, but could not contrive evidence of it.)

If their additional requirements and restrictions didn't prevent anyone from voting, what was their purpose?

What did they achieve?

 

Bbbbbbbbut what about all the fraud? Did it disappear?

 

I don't know of any guess the new laws and rules worked.

 

A totally baseless presumption, the purpose to protect the election from meddling and fraud like using phony mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting and insuring it is actually the registered person voting. They achieved a smooth election with everyone able to vote and no problems I've heard of.

I asked

What barriers and be specific.

 

The folks at the WAPO need to get out more. They really are insulated and insular. They just don't understand what is actually going on the world around them. This is just another example of how stupidly wrong they have been, and how dangerous having the Bezos editorials just go straight to the public. But, oh no, Musk wants to buy Twitter...

 

*LOL*

Punctuation. Use some.

 

You know what motivates people to vote? The perception that voting is under threat. No longer taken for granted. And when the other side is insane, of course.

 

I have never heard anyone say they were motivated to vote because they were not going to be able to vote, that is the most absurd Democrat spin I've heard in a while. The fact is people cared about the ELECTION and their candidates and the direction of the country and they got out and voted and there was not suppression now, there was none before.

 

That the best you got.............................you got nothing.

 

Intuitively it makes sense that if you think your enemy is trying to make it harder to vote, you make a greater effort to vote. If everything is business as usual and you're complacent, then you're less likely to vote. Being under threat stops complacency.

Such a bump would be short-lived though. If republicans succeed in making it harder than it needs to be to vote, it's people with nothing better to do who tend to vote, which would be retired persons, which would be republicans.

The indicator for whether it's harder than it needs to be is indeed whether there's a problem with voter fraud. There isn't.