{"id":1491218,"date":"2022-05-25T08:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491218"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:16:49","slug":"after-joe-biden-media-smeared-georgia-voting-rules-as-jim-crow-2-0-non-white-turnout-boomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-joe-biden-media-smeared-georgia-voting-rules-as-jim-crow-2-0-non-white-turnout-boomed\/","title":{"rendered":"After Joe Biden, Media Smeared Georgia Voting Rules As \u2018Jim Crow 2.0,\u2019 Non-White Turnout Boomed"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fafter-joe-biden-media-smeared-georgia-voting-rules-as-jim-crow-2-0-non-white-turnout-boomed%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=1491218&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/51898318239_47592a31cb_b.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Remember when our <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/09\/bidens-jim-crow-label-for-georgia-election-laws-is-insane-heres-why\/\">president<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kcbsradio\/news\/national\/biden-says-gops-assault-on-voting-is-jim-crow-on-steroids\">claimed<\/a> that Georgia\u2019s election-integrity law was \u201cJim Crow on steroids\u201d? And his vice president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9776971\/Kamala-Harris-mocked-claiming-rural-residents-photocopies-IDs.html\">insisted<\/a> similar laws were voter suppression because rural bumpkins don\u2019t have \u201cKinkos\u201d or \u201cOfficeMax\u201d and thus can\u2019t possibly be expected to figure out how to photocopy their IDs?<\/p>\n<p>Now that Georgia\u2019s early primary voting turnout has blown tallies from the last few elections out of the water, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are pretty quiet. So are the rest of the corporate media, which dutifully parroted the narrative that the Peach State\u2019s push for election security represented Republican efforts to kill democracy with vicious racism.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.ga.gov\/news\/georgia-election-law-results-record-early-voting-turnout\">Georgia\u2019s secretary of state<\/a>, 857,401 people voted in the state\u2019s 2022 midterm election, including almost 800,000 of them in person by the end of early voting on Friday. By the end of early voting in 2020, the number of in-person voters was 326,351, and in pre-pandemic 2018 that number didn\u2019t even break 300,000. <\/p>\n<p>That makes this midterm tally a pretty dramatic spike. But even more impressive is the rise in the number of non-white voters, of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/much-higher-minority-early-voting-in-georgias-upcoming-primaries\/\">approximately 100,000<\/a> more voted early compared to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>How could it possibly be that early voting significantly <em>increased<\/em>, especially among minorites, under a Republican regime of racist \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x0sS2UfN7FA\">Jim Eagle<\/a>\u201d suppression? There must be some mistake if we are to believe any of the media\u2019s apocalyptic predictions from back when Georgia added simple safeguards while expanding voting locations and early voting, such as limiting electioneering in polling-place lines and requiring a driver\u2019s license or state ID number. According to the corporate press, democracy itself was hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHolden360\/status\/1528882148119351297?s=20&#038;t=bWlsvxcNewyyhMOg8nWfFw\">The Washington Post<\/a> editorial board claimed, \u201cGeorgia\u2019s new law makes voting harder \u2014 not better,\u201d with one editor calling the law \u201cshameful\u201d and a \u201cproduct of GOP desperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/jim-crow-killed-voting-rights-for-generations-now-the-gop-is-repeating-history\/\">Mother Jones<\/a> announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/jim-crow-republicans-democrats-odds-voting-rights\/story?id=77188460\">ABC News<\/a> amplified \u201cThe New Jim Crow\u201d narrative, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/06\/opinion\/georgia-voting-law.html\">New York Times<\/a> opinion column asking of the law, \u201cIf It\u2019s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/26\/politics\/georgia-voting-law-black-voters\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> ran a whole slew of self-serious articles as part of a \u201cVOTING RIGHTS UNDER ATTACK\u201d series, and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/oops-media-warned-of-jim-crow-2-0-now-black-turnout-is-soaring\/\">MSNBC<\/a> piled on the \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cJim Crow 2.0\u201d bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/politics\/546099-georgia-election-law-prevents-african-american-latinx-others\/\">The Hill<\/a> published an op-ed from a Democrat congresswoman absurdly claiming the \u201cGeorgia election law prevents African American, Latinx, others from exercising the right to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia law is a \u201cmassive voter suppression bill,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/03\/jim-crow-in-a-suit-and-tie-georgia-passes-massive-voter-suppression-bill\">Vanity Fair<\/a>, which also repeated a blue lawmaker\u2019s claim that the legislation is nothing more than \u201cJim Crow in a suit and tie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/22368044\/georgia-sb202-voter-suppression-democracy-big-lie\">Vox<\/a> went so far as to condemn the election-security debate surrounding the Georgia law, with Zack Beauchamp writing, \u201cThe debate over whether Georgia\u2019s law really suppresses voting reveals just how imperiled American democracy is,\u201d in an article titled, \u201cYes, the Georgia election law is that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s plenty more where all that came from. And it means Democrats and their media mouthpieces blatantly lied about the intentions of their political foes and the benefits of incorporating some basic election security such as photo ID, which Americans of all races and political identifications support by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/lifestyle\/general_lifestyle\/march_2021\/75_support_voter_id_laws\">clear majorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, Biden\u2019s \u201cJim Crow\u201d moniker, the MLB Georgia boycott, and the media\u2019s \u201cvoter suppression\u201d meltdown were never really about protecting black Americans\u2019 right to vote because Georgia\u2019s election law was never trying to attack it \u2014 an obvious fact that Democrats understood all along. The entire charade was about power, and it comes straight from the left\u2019s modern playbook: If you can\u2019t beat \u2019em, call \u2019em racist.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this smear operation entirely worked to get Democrats more of what they wanted: elections that are weeks long instead of one day, which increases their ability to affect the election outcome unfairly by checking what votes are in and what areas favorable to them they need to harvest votes from still.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s legislative battle for elections wasn\u2019t a fight between well-intentioned Democrats who just wanted to help minorities and vile Republicans who wanted to keep people from voting. It was about one party that benefitted from the disasters of the 2020 election, and so branded its opponents as segregationists to keep as much of the chaos going as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we all could have predicted this outcome. Election-integrity measures are actually great for public trust, faith in the corrupt news media has plummeted, and Americans are tired of the race pandering. Oh, and it\u2019s really not that hard to make a photocopy, even for us country folk.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when our president claimed that Georgia\u2019s election-integrity law was \u201cJim Crow on steroids\u201d? And his vice president insisted similar laws were voter suppression because rural bumpkins don\u2019t have \u201cKinkos\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1491218","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\/1491218","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\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}