Georgia bill struck me as overblown. It got watered down and ended up, in many ways, enhancing voting access. As many of you pointed out to me, and to which I agreed in a follow-up newsletter, the most dangerous part of the bill is the provision giving the Georgia Assembly control over the State Board of Elections, which will allow the board to take over local county boards and choose who decides to disqualify which ballots — even in Democratic strongholds. In 2020, a provision like this could have easily been used to throw out legitimate ballots and given Georgia to Trump, had Republicans caved to his pressure
That’s the only thing they wanted. The rest was just window dressing with just enough controversy to distract you.
Yea it's like this 8D chess game where Democrats don't think voters understand the significance of the board of elections changes, so they keep arguing that it's voter suppression. But the elections board stuff is way scarier (but, I guess, less certain - we don't *know* what will happen in another close election, if they'd actually throw out votes.)
This Damian Penny quote sums it up pretty well IMO:
If you’ve been following the controversy over Georgia’s new laws governing voting, you likely fall into one of three camps:
- it’s absolutely no big deal, and the fact that Republicans just happen to be ramming it through after the Orange God-King declared his election loss tainted by fraud is pure coincidence.
- it’s Jim Crow 2.0 and the state of Georgia and every company headquartered there should be boycotted until the law is repealed and maybe we need another Sherman to burn Atlanta to the ground again.
- the law is very questionable, but not so bad that a boycott is justified.
Georgia bill struck me as overblown. It got watered down and ended up, in many ways, enhancing voting access. As many of you pointed out to me, and to which I agreed in a follow-up newsletter, the most dangerous part of the bill is the provision giving the Georgia Assembly control over the State Board of Elections, which will allow the board to take over local county boards and choose who decides to disqualify which ballots — even in Democratic strongholds. In 2020, a provision like this could have easily been used to throw out legitimate ballots and given Georgia to Trump, had Republicans caved to his pressure
That’s the only thing they wanted. The rest was just window dressing with just enough controversy to distract you.
Yea it's like this 8D chess game where Democrats don't think voters understand the significance of the board of elections changes, so they keep arguing that it's voter suppression. But the elections board stuff is way scarier (but, I guess, less certain - we don't *know* what will happen in another close election, if they'd actually throw out votes.)
This Damian Penny quote sums it up pretty well IMO:
If you’ve been following the controversy over Georgia’s new laws governing voting, you likely fall into one of three camps:
- it’s absolutely no big deal, and the fact that Republicans just happen to be ramming it through after the Orange God-King declared his election loss tainted by fraud is pure coincidence.
- it’s Jim Crow 2.0 and the state of Georgia and every company headquartered there should be boycotted until the law is repealed and maybe we need another Sherman to burn Atlanta to the ground again.
- the law is very questionable, but not so bad that a boycott is justified.
but, I guess, less certain - we don't *know* what will happen in another close election, if they'd actually throw out votes.)
We know they tried this time. We know that either 45 or one of his kids will be running in 24.
We can assume they will demand that votes be overturned in the event of a loss.
Uh...we actually don’t know any of those things.