The White House won’t say whether President Biden regretted calling Georgia’s election reform law “Jim Crow 2.0”, after state election officials reported record early voting turnout for November’s midterms.
The president was among many Democrats last year who criticized Georgia’s Republican-passed Election Integrity ActAs a right-wing attempt suppress Black votes. In October 2021, Biden described the law as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.” The law was referred to by the president as “Jim Crow 2.0” in January 2021.
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Also, the Department of Justice A lawsuit was filedThe Georgia law was criticized, even though it was filed 15 months ago. However, the DOJ, White House and other representatives have not provided any updates on the legal action’s status.
Despite Democrats’ claims that the voting law would suppress the votes, Gabriel Sterling (chief operating officer at the Office of the Georgia Secretary of State) announced Monday on Twitter that records were destroyed for early voting in 2022.
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“Our elections team has reviewed the initial early vote numbers for Day 1 and we know we are north of 125,000,” Sterling tweeted. This surpasses the 72k early vote count set in the 2018 midterms’ 1st day. We will have the exact numbers by morning.”
Sterling tweeted hours earlier that “As of 4:15” he had seen more than 100,000 Georgians vote early. This shatters the midterm 1st Day record of around 72,000. We still have plenty of voting to go today.
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Conservatives took advantage of the Twitter news. NewsBusters associate editor Nick Fondacaro shared a “CBS Evening News” clip acknowledging the turnout and mocked it, tweeting, “And yet the liberal media still claims there’s ‘vOtEr SuPpReSsIoN’ and ‘jIm CrOwN[sic] 2.0.’”
Conservative radio host Larry O’Connor shared a local Fox affiliate’s story on the record-breaking turnout and commented, “’Jim Crow 2.0’ UPDATE!”
The Spectator contributing editor Stephen L. Miller shared Sterling’s tweet and captioned it, “Jim Crow 2.0.”
The White House declined any comment regarding whether Biden regretted Jim Crow remarks made when he was interviewed by Fox News Digital Tuesday.
Among the Election Integrity Act’s changes were preventing government agencies from mailing applications unsolicited, requiring the use of driver’s licenses or some other form of photo ID instead of signature-matching to verify identity in absentee ballot applications, and codifying ballot drop boxes into law. The law mandated that precincts have at least 17 days’ early voting. It also left intact no-excuse absentee balloting and shortened the time it took to apply for ballots from 67 to 67 days.
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Georgia gubernatorial Stacey Abrams is the Democratic nomineeOne of the most prominent opponents to Georgia’s election law was.
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Abrams stated that in May, “We know that higher turnout has nothing do with suppression.” “Suppression refers to whether you make it difficult or easy for voters to vote. Georgia is a case in point. We know too many Georgians want to vote by post. This meant they had to create a schedule to apply early enough and not too late. Who had to have the signatures needed to print, take a photograph, upload. We know that in the state, many counties have taken advantage county election boards which has changed their dynamic.
Fox News’ Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
