Backfired on 'em! Georgia voting

[cilla4progress]

https://wapo.st/3wxXU0K

Voting is surging in Georgia despite controversial new election law

GRIFFIN, Ga. — When the Spalding County Board of Elections eliminated early voting on Sundays, Democrats blamed a new state law and accused the Republican-controlled board of intentionally thwarting “Souls to the Polls,” a get-out-the-vote program among Black churches to urge their congregations to cast ballots after religious services.

But 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 falloff in voting. By the end of Friday, the final day of early in-person voting, nearly 800,000 Georgians had cast ballots — more than three times the number in 2018, and higher even than in 2020, a presidential year.

[OhZone]

1. "higher even than in 2020, a presidential year."

Um -

































WOW!

[Baked Potato]

2. Righteous news! Nt

[Hoyt]

3. This is good and shows Stacey Abrams was right above voter education. BUT

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from what I read in the Atlanta Journal, the real primary voter surge is from GOPers. We’ll have to do better in November.

[cilla4progress]

4. I hope that isn't so!

Will re-listen to the article. I got the impression it was due to work of Dem activists.

[Hoyt]

6. Here's the article from Thursday. Democrats don't have as many contested races,

so that’s a factor too.


https://www.ajc.com/politics/turnout-surges-in-georgia-primary-led-by-resurgent-republicans/AWMAIU2PFVHR5OKMZWZ55GOJB4/?fb_news_token=q3lQGBXILf%2FKyrGiWZQ9fQ%3D%3D.Ivn99ZSu%2FtgkokEMR%2F%2F6ErpNvHJRqAt1rmWQ%2FKDb5YaNqB5Mb9b%2Ba5l04WKQJc0PjrlwvbWpZSrCOqcH0dJ37RYiJapho5%2Fcbymzi%2FIORmzgb170ouFu8rohlxk6cSs1mQase5f2RdK9VzfmIjDVy81%2F9hTOwOSAlSXEU9%2FDrl%2FUsG9hjM6iGj6L37CiYPNw79BzF2PdZB4PGBLoRkmG7Al%2BkYONG4V6pR5gmoLC6P9kYGSr2SiCwOSJ6qv66zEpF8lSwlzx5QnkpV6Aq40ZaBZgYlt7AFbzF7imUv6sUxmfkgwNiUuY6VsTBCeABlrIMoFiSdh0zh23YAFXe%2FdmCtYXZUZb1zD1xHat31H38HtxloBqOMoofRjCro5KD7yf1SHBzk7FWMn52dbZopK69jsjrE4trFxmtbGMvpxT10v4lEkuE4bKGkC6PQysGlNF&fbclid=IwAR2I3MBETL2IofjQrX-is5Y7zCGt-pUCaI8m4Ur6P21blVE7mUA6txpbOhI

[cilla4progress]

8. Thanks for posting the link, Hoyt.

Guess we'll have to sit tight and

GOTV!!!

[UGADawg]

18. No it's Repubs voting

%**

[TomSlick]

12. Yeah, but Georgia has open primaries. There are likely Democrats voting in the GQP primary.

I voted in the Arkansas GQP primary because all the local races will be decided in the GQP primary and there are people running in the GQP primary statewide, like Sara "Smokey Eyes" Huckabee Sanders, that I wanted to vote against - twice.

In open primary states, the numbers voting in each primary doesn't mean what it does in closed primary states.
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[Hoyt]

14. Maybe, but I think it's a small number. Primary voting is always much lower than general.

[Me.]

5. Boom Boom Kemp

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

7. This is what I have been saying all along...

the GQP has so greatly overplayed their hand, they are going to get slaughtered in the next two elections and all of their attempts to stack the deck will fail as well.

I don't know who leaked the SCOTUS decision but that was the final nail.

[ananda]

11. Yes, here's hoping!

!!!

[Bo Zarts]

9. I grew up in Griffin, Georgia

"Half as big as a NYC cemetery, and twice as dead." - Tom Sharpe

[tosh]

20. Lol!

I’m just down the road a bit from Griffin and I LOVE this quote!

Thanks for sharing this one!

[calimary]

10. DAYUM! Does this mean people are paying attention?

(For a change?)

[onenote]

13. My guess is that the lion's share of the early voting is by repubs.

The fact that 800,000 have cast early ballots in and of itself doesn't mean that Democrats are voting in record numbers. Indeed, given that the the outcome of the primaries for the Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator are foregone conclusions while the repub primary for governor is drawing a lot of attention, I expect repub turnout will be much heavier than Democratic turnout in the primary.

[Marcuse]

15. They can make it hard to vote, but not impossible. Who will count our hard votes?

[UGADawg]

16. It's Republicans voting per Atlanta paper today.

No big elections on Democratic side. Lots of contests on Repug side.

[SouthernDem4ever]

21. The dems should have changed parties for this primary

just to vote out the weirdos being backed by frump.

[Linda Ed]

17. They need to get out more messages!

Democrats have better ideas, better candidates, and a better vision for tomorrow. What they don't have is BETTER MESSAGING
Glad to hear they have voted early and in droves though

[Skittles]

19. this is what I was hoping

that Americans would understand voter suppression is an assault on democracy, and should prompt EVERYONE to vote

[BradBo]

22. Well darn, that didn't work!

Now te republicans will have to straight up cheat by eliminating their government and installing politician they want without a fair public vote.

[Pluvious]

24. Thank you for sharing this

We all need signs of hope to cling to

[SpankMe]

25. Don't count your chickens

I'd bet $1000 that Republicans are already conspiring to find ways to invalidate as many of these pending mail-in votes as possible. It'll be a dry-run for overturning the general election.

Democracy is over. We've got to work on an America 2.0 where each side can have the governance they want without being under the thumb of the other.