{"id":1490310,"date":"2022-05-24T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490310"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:29:41","slug":"stacey-abrams-claims-that-increased-voting-turnout-has-nothing-to-do-with-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-claims-that-increased-voting-turnout-has-nothing-to-do-with-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Claims That Increased Voting Turnout \u2018Has Nothing To Do With\u2019 Voter Suppression"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fstacey-abrams-claims-that-increased-voting-turnout-has-nothing-to-do-with-voter-suppression%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=1490310&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>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed on Monday that votes could still be suppressed in the Peach State despite high early voting turnout for the primary election.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/stacey-abrams-joy-reid-georgia-voter-suppression-record-turnout\">flagged<\/a> an interview Abrams gave to MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid Monday night when she said there was \u201cno correlation\u201d between voter suppression and turn-out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no correlation there,\u201d Abrams told Reid after the MSNBC host claimed that Republicans were pushing a new \u201cbig lie\u201d by saying that the 2021 Georgia election integrity law, which required photo ID among other measures, did not hamper people\u2019s ability to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoter suppression is about blocking or impeding certain types of voters from participating in elections,\u201d Abrams continued. \u201cRight now Republicans have the most competitive elections, but what we also don\u2019t know is what is the mail-in ballot rejection rate? What are the difficulties people are having?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoter suppression is not about stopping voting, it is about impeding certain voters from participating, and those voters, as you pointed out, are unlikely to be highly active in a primary,\u201d Abrams added.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/early-georgia-primary-voting-sets-record-highs-after-voter-id-law-signed-despite-leftists-warning-about-new-jim-crow\">reported<\/a> that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger\u2019s office announced Wednesday evening that \u201cmore than 565,000 Georgians have voted early, which is a 153% increase from the same point in the early voting period in the 2018 primary election and a 189% increase in the 2020 primary election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic. What it shows is that it\u2019s never been easier to vote in Georgia, but we have the appropriate guardrails, securities in place,\u201d Raffensperger\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/raffensperger-georgia-early-voting-turnout\/85-c8f49d96-1038-48ba-a9b8-66d03f2f91bc\">told <\/a>reporters. \u201cWhen you have strong security that elevates people\u2019s confidence in the process. So now, we have photo ID for all absentee voting. We have 17 days of early voting. Just Thursday and Friday left to go\u2026but we\u2019re already seeing numbers pushing 200 percent higher than what in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abrams again said on Tuesday that the high turnout was \u201ccausation without correlation\u201d while adding, \u201cWe know that increased turnout has nothing to do with suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrat Stacey Abrams on Georgia&#8217;s skyrocketing turnout: &#8220;We know that increased turnout has nothing to do with suppression&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MzTnwNY7KK\">pic.twitter.com\/MzTnwNY7KK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1529119592294932480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In reaction to Abrams\u2019 comments, Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action, told The Daily Wire that Georgia\u2019s law, officially known as SB 202, was evidence that voting reforms can increase confidence in democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorgia\u2019s record turnout and efficient voting procedures have completely debunked the Left\u2019s lies about voter suppression,\u201d she added in an email. \u201cBy strengthening voter ID requirements, increasing mandatory days of early weekend voting, and preventing interest groups from election interference, Georgia has seen renewed confidence in their state\u2019s election procedures and record-setting voter turnout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn contrast, we have also seen problems in states, like Pennsylvania, who have not strengthened their election laws,\u201d she continued. \u201cAfter Governor Wolf vetoed legislation to reform and secure Pennsylvania\u2019s mail-in ballot procedures, there have been issues in counting the ballots and, to this day, we still don\u2019t have a final result from that election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that these election reform efforts work in promoting turnout from all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed on Monday that votes could still be suppressed in the Peach State despite high early voting turnout for the primary election. On Tuesday, Fox News flagged an interview Abrams gave to MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid Monday night when she said there was \u201cno correlation\u201d between voter suppression and turn-out. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1490346,"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-1490310","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\/1490310","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}