{"id":1450472,"date":"2022-04-22T13:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450472"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:46:24","slug":"report-gop-warns-raffensperger-of-stacey-abrams-voter-education-initiative-for-ga-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-gop-warns-raffensperger-of-stacey-abrams-voter-education-initiative-for-ga-students\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: GOP Warns Raffensperger Of Stacey Abrams\u2019 Voter-Education Initiative For GA Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-gop-warns-raffensperger-of-stacey-abrams-voter-education-initiative-for-ga-students%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republicans in the U.S. House sent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger a letter flagging a report that a voter-education initiative spearheaded by Stacey Abrams is teaching students the state\u2019s laws restrict voting, The Washington Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/apr\/21\/gop-calls-georgia-secretary-state-counter-public-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, written by Reps. Rodney Davis of Illinois and Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, asked <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/raffensperger-georgia-county-clean-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raffensperger<\/a> how he plans to combat the initiative, which is taught in Atlanta\u2019s public schools, The Washington Times reported. It was also sent to members of the Georgia State Elections Board and the chair and vice-chair of the Fulton County Elections Board, the Washington Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta high school students were asked to attend a democracy class put on by the New Georgia Project, which Abrams founded in 2013, after the city\u2019s public schools partnered with the group, as well as Rock the Vote, in August 2021 to implement a \u201cDemocracy Class Atlanta\u201d lesson plan focused on \u201cvoting rights,\u201d according to documents obtained in an open records request, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stacey-abrams-group-ga-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7415679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7415679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams arrives to speak during the annual North America\u2019s Building Trades Union\u2019s Legislative Conference at the Washington Hilton Hotel on April 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The program \u201ctaught students that voter identification laws are \u2018restrictive\u2019 and make voting \u2018more difficult,\u2019 and that policies limiting \u2018flexible voting options\u2019 like mail-in voting restrict people\u2019s \u2018freedom to vote,\u2019\u201d the representatives wrote, the Washington Times reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/27\/joe-biden-georgia-poll-herschel-walker-brian-kemp-david-perdue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden\u2019s Approval Plummets In Georgia, The State That Gave Him A Senate Majority)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/justice-department-georgia-lawsuit-election-law-merrick-garland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Election Integrity Act<\/a> was signed into law in 2021 in the aftermath of unfounded claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/georgia-voting-bill-absentee-voting-id-requirement-food-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The law imposes<\/a> a voter ID requirement, expands early voting in most Georgia counties, requires that counties have at least one absentee voting drop box and shifts more control over election administration to the state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/14\/jake-tapper-stacey-abrams-voter-fraud-suppression-georgia-jim-crow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> the legislation \u201cracist\u201d and \u201ca redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, the secretary of state and the governor went to great pains to assure America that Georgia\u2019s elections were secure,\u201d she said in March 2021. \u201cAnd so the only connection that we can find is that more people of color voted and it changed the outcome of elections in a direction that Republicans do not like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Raffensperger did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in the U.S. House sent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger a letter flagging a report that a voter-education initiative spearheaded by Stacey Abrams is teaching students the state\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":1450490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}