“This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” President Joe Biden said in 2021.
“These blatantly unconstitutional efforts … are nothing less than Jim Crow 2.0,” failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said.
“This is Jim Crow 2.0,” South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn said.
That’s how Democrats described Georgia’s Election Integrity Act of 2021, which expanded voting opportunities and added a requirement for voters to show ID in order to receive an absentee ballot. Their deliberately false and inflammatory rhetoric set off a flurry of criticism from major corporations, activists, and members of the propaganda press.
But the Peach State is once again seeing record-high voter turnout as the state begins its early voting period.
Chief Operating Officer for Georgia’s Secretary of State Office Gabe Sterling reported that more than 328,000 early votes and absentee votes had been cast on the first day of early voting (Tuesday), breaking past records.
In fact, some voters told CNN it was far more “easy” to vote this go around than in past cycles.
“Last time I voted, I voted in the city, and the lines were out the door,” Corine Canada, a black woman, told CNN. “They only had like, maybe like three people working. And so people honestly just started leaving because it was like that. Yeah, like, ‘This is too long. I can’t sit here and wait, I have to go back to work.’ But here, no, it was easy!”
But surely that can’t be true — we were reliably informed
