Every time that someone suggests a change in our voting laws that might make voter fraud more difficult, a group of people on the political left yell, “voter suppression.” One example was the Georgia law that was actually less restrictive than the voting laws in Delaware. No matter, the baseball all star game got moved.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, PJ Media<\/a> posted an article headlined, “What Would Happen if They Held a Voter Suppression Election and No Voters Got Suppressed?” We now have the answer to that question.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Last January, Joe Biden set the Democratic base ablaze with the incendiary charge<\/a> that Republicans were suppressing the votes of minorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cJim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things: voter suppression and election subversion,\u201d Biden told a crowd at Atlanta University. \u201cIt\u2019s no longer about who gets to vote; it\u2019s about making it harder to vote. It\u2019s about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not hyperbole; this is a fact.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n At the time, it was a supposition, not a fact, to claim that the Republican election reforms would suppress the black vote. And as it turns out, it certainly was hyperbole. It was a supposition that was so pervasive that it forced Major League Baseball to cancel its all-star game set for Atlanta later that summer. And numerous corporations punished the state<\/a> for its supposed efforts to suppress the vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n So where does Georgia go for an apology?<\/strong><\/p>\n The article ends with a bogus claim by Stacey Abrams:<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2018, we had record turnout,\u201d Abrams said in a press conference Monday<\/a>. \u201cWe had record turnout that shattered records for Democrats among communities of color and in that same election \u2026 we know that 85,000 Georgians were denied their right to vote due to voter suppression tactics that shut down their precincts. We know that 50,000 voters had their right to vote held hostage by the exact match process which was proven to be voter suppression tactics. We know that thousands of people stood in lines for hours because of voter suppression tactics.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n None of that is true, or it\u2019s grossly exaggerated.<\/strong><\/p>\n If there was record turnout, how was there voter suppression?<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every time that someone suggests a change in our voting laws that might make voter fraud more difficult, a group of people on the political left yell, “voter suppression.” One example was the Georgia law that was actually less restrictive … Continue reading