Georgia Republicans passed legislation in an attempt to prevent such malfeasance from happening again. Now, those same dark money groups are back to replicate their 2020 strategy for the 2024 contest and test the integrity of Georgia’s elections.
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The legislature had a chance to get things right. Initial legislation banned the 3 main fraud activities. Party leadership demanded that those clauses be removed and subsequently, Georgia still has: mail in voting, drop boxes and harvesting.
And just as importantly, Open Primaries.
The thieves in Georgia like things just the way they are
Interestingly, this all coincides with Kemp and his puppet masters doing their best to turn Georgia Blue by recruiting as many liberals to move here as they can.
I’ll be waiting for someone to tel how great Kemp is while not being able to mention anything other than covid
“The legislature had a chance to get things right. Initial legislation banned the 3 main fraud activities. Party leadership demanded that those clauses be removed and subsequently, Georgia still has: mail in voting, drop boxes and harvesting.”
Stats I saw for the 2022 General Election showed about 15 out of 16 GA voters cast ballots in person, ID required. This due to the difficulty of applying for a mail-in ballot.
You can’t get rid of mail-in completely due to disablitiy laws, but Georgia eliminated about 80% in 2022 vs 2020 (even the NY Times ran a story about the drastic cutback on mail-in in GA). Black leaders in Atlanta were quoted as saying they would have to rely on in-person voting since large scale mail-in efforts were too time consuming with the passage of the 2021 voter reform law.
Drop boxes, nearly eliminated around the state. No drop boxes on street corners allowed, they have to be at public buildings. Drop box hours are 7AM to 7PM, no more midnight ballot dumps.
There was a single drop-box location in downtown Atlanta, at a Rec Center, on MLK Blvd. There was another up in Buckhead at the public library and one down in the Lakewood area.
The 2021 voting law worked.