Now that it’s obvious Democrats were lying about Georgia’s election law, do their media accomplices feel duped?
Timothy P. Carney
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Democrats never believed it. Not for a second.
They claimed the 2021 Georgia voting reform bill amounted to racist disenfranchisement. That was a lie. They told the lie because it gave them a political advantage and because they knew the media would play along.
GEORGIA VOTERS SAY VOTING WAS EASY
Now that it is obvious the Democrats’ attacks on Georgia’s voting reform law were 100% false, will the reporters and editors who fell for it have a reckoning?
President Joe Biden said it was worse than Jim Crow. Countless other Democrats said the same thing. They should have known better because the law codified expanded early voting and drop-box voting. Voting under the 2021 Georgia law may have been slightly curtailed from the pandemic-era emergency voting rules, but the law expanded the franchise from prior law and made voting easier than it was in Delaware or New York.
The facade of lies about the Georgia law began to crumble in March 2022 when polls came out, showing that 70% of people support laws requiring voters to show ID. Only 13% of voters said that voting is too hard. That 13% was probably all news reporters, and they were proven wrong a few weeks later.
In the 2022 Republican and Democratic primaries in Georgia, all sorts of turnout records were shattered. Democrats and the news media claimed the GOP was making early voting too hard, yet primary voters doubled the previous record of early voters. Overall, Georgia set its record for midterm primary turnout in the first election after that supposedly Jim Crow law.
Then came the early voting numbers from the general election. Same story. The Washington Examiner’s editorial from the time laid out the lies that were already exposed:
“They claimed that this law would shorten voting hours, which was false. They claimed it banned so-called drop boxes, which were actually illegal already, when, in fact, it mandated properly secured drop boxes under 24-hour surveillance in all 159 Georgia counties. They claimed, without credible evidence, that voting ID requirements are discriminatory. In reality, the law used voter ID to replace the highly subjective and unfair process of signature-matching on absentee ballots.”
“They claimed, falsely, that the law would ban giving water to people waiting in line to vote.”
Then, Election Day came and saw record turnout, which was to be expected, considering the law made it easier to vote.
And the lies kept crumbling. In a December runoff election, turnout was high despite a depressed Republican base.
In January, more evidence amassed that the accusations against the Georgia election law were bogus. Specifically, black voters, the ones Biden promised were being disenfranchised, told pollsters voting was great: “0% described their voting experience as poor. Over 96% deemed it excellent or good. A total of 99.5% of black voters did not name a problem while voting, and just 0.8% thought their county’s election officials performed poorly.”
And here’s a final piece of evidence that the Democrats weren’t just wrong, they were lying: Democrats, after declaring Georgia’s law was so evil that the All-Star Game couldn’t be held there, now say Georgia is fine for their convention.
What’s going on?
https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1620439572718166016
Guy Benson is exactly right. The Democrats never believed it. The thing is, much of the media seemed to believe the Georgia voting reform was disenfranchisement. At the very least, they took the Democrats’ dishonest accusations at face value.
Now that these lies are exposed, will the media reconsider their behavior?
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