Georgia's new voting reform law contains simple, commonsense measures, most of which - and this will shock you if your understanding of the law comes from CNN or President Joe Biden - will make it easier for people to vote.
Some of its provisions rightly protect the voting process from the risk of fraud, a risk that grows as more votes are cast by mail.
There is no more effective way to get out the vote than to claim - falsely, in this case - that someone is blocking voters from the polls.
Evidently, Democrats' fears about their underperformance with minority voters in the 2020 election are even greater than previously understood.
Biden himself misled about the Georgia voting law during his first press conference, claiming that it forced polling places to close at 5 p.m., "So working people can't cast their vote after their shift is over." In fact, the law merely requires polling places during early voting to stay open until at least 5 p.m., giving them discretion to stay open until 7 p.m. This is an expansion of voting hours, not a contraction of them.
It empowers state officials to intervene and make voting easier where bad local decisions, mostly by election boards in Democratic-dominated cities, have resulted in fewer polling stations, longer lines, and otherwise poor administration.
Finally, the law contains perfectly commonsense requirements that absentee voters provide appropriate proof of identity when requesting their ballots and request their ballot within a perfectly reasonable nine-week window - not the six-month period that was permitted in the 2020 election.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/why-all-the-lies-about-georgias-new-voting-law
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