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One of the centerpieces of Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R-Ga.) first term as governor of the Peach State was a law that secured Georgia’s elections and made it, in Kemp’s words, “easier to vote and harder to cheat.” The law was a direct response to chicanery that took place during the 2020 election season.
In November, I wrote about the circumstances that led the governor and the General Assembly to push for a law to make elections more secure:
During the 2020 election, Democrats set up snack tables and handed out candidate-branded bottles of water to people waiting in long voting lines. The embarrassingly long lines combined with other shenanigans helped tint the Peach State blue in that election. Gun-shy Republican voters, affected in part by billboards from left-wing PACs suggesting that Democrats were out to steal the election, stayed home from the Jan. 2021 Senate runoff, further adding to the narrative that Georgia was a purple state ripe for Democrats to seize.
Kemp’s signature was barely dry on the bill when Democrats began to cry “racism.” From my November piece:
Sore loser [Stacey] Abrams penned an op-ed in USA Today that led to Major League Baseball moving the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta. Of course, the Atlanta Braves got the best revenge by winning the World Series, and USA Today stealth-edited Abrams’ op-ed to remove the suggestion that MLB should punish Georgia and the businesses around Atlanta, many of which are minority-owned.
The narrative was that securing Georgia’s elections somehow equated to racism.
