At his press conference last week, President Biden claimed passage of the Election Integrity Act is “un-American” and “sick” because the law, he said, bans voters standing in line from getting water and food, and it cuts off voting hours at the poll precincts, which harms voters who head to the polls after work.
Undeterred by those claims, Georgia’s state lawmakers passed the bill in the Senate that same day, and it was signed hours later by Gov. Brian Kemp.
“Georgia Gov. Kemp signs GOP election bill amid an outcry,” reads an Associated Press headline after the signing.
However, the president’s claim that Republican lawmakers cut the hours earned him a “Four Pinocchios” fact-check from the liberal Washington Post. Georgia’s polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day, the newspaper said, and the new law does not change that.
Instead, a National Review story points out, the new law mandates hours for early-voting in the state from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Counties can expand those times to a full 12-hour day, too, and the new law added Saturday voting.
According to the Post, Biden “managed to turn that expansion into a restriction,” and the liberal newspaper was left asking who at the White House had misinformed Biden when the facts proved opposite of his claims.
The fact is that Republican lawmakers and Democrats hold vastly different views on voting restrictions, such as requiring voter ID and restricting absentee ballots. Republicans say they are ensuring Election Day remains a fair and honest process but Democrats routinely call such restrictions Jim Crow-like and “voter suppression,” which mirrors the Left’s view that Republicans are racists who hate minorities.
Regarding the claim that Georgia lawmakers are allowing voters to go thirsty in line, Gov. Kemp told the “Washington Watch” radio program that Georgia voters can receive a free bottle of water from a poll worker, or from a water station, on Election Day.
“But, no, we’re not going to allow [Biden], or me, or any other candidate or third-party groups, to hand out favors to voters while they’re standing in line,” he said.
The new state law views handing out free food and water to voters as vote buying by candidates or by their supporter, and that is prohibited 150 feet from the polling location along with handing out campaign materials, money, and gifts.
Media watchdog Media Research Center points out in an online story that Politifact, the fact-checking website, admitted in its own story about the Georgia law that food and water are often handed out by left-wing groups near voting precincts. Politifact states:
Voting rights advocates routinely organize food and water distribution near voting sites where residents sometimes have to wait in line for hours to vote, often in nonwhite communities, where polling places are more crowded. Some of the larger events are organized by those with ties to the left, although they make the food and water available to anyone.
In the radio interview, Gov. Kemp said the new law strengthens voter ID requirements for mailed-in absentee ballots and requires poll workers to tabulate ballots until all votes have been counted. Both of those issues surfaced after the presidential election.
The new law also expands early-voting access, including on weekends, he pointed out.
Gov. Kemp summarized the law by stating it makes it “easy to vote” in Georgia but “hard to cheat.”
Mirroring the day-versus-night view of election restrictions, a weekend Twitter post from CNN described the Georgia law as “restricting voting rights” in the state.
Kyle Drennen of the Media Research Center noticed that description, too. He tells One News Now he also watched CNN describe the controversial HR 1 bill in Congress as a “voting rights bill” when, in reality, it would strip away state-level voting laws, ending input from state legislatures, and gives that election power solely to the U.S. Congress.
“That’s ‘democracy reform’ according to the press,” Drennen says of CNN’s claims. “But what’s happening in Georgia is Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Voters rights are restricted?????? Liberals have a “restricted” airspace between their ears and as a result liberals practice “Jim Crow”, because liberals want to dilute the vote of those of us that want every legal vote to count. Secondly, like I stated in a previous column, Governor Kemp and his Secretary of State perpetrated the voting fraud against Trump, by changing the way voting was done, without going through the legislature and now these clowns (Kemp and the Secretary of State) want to get reelected, so they want to look good in front of the voters. Kemp and his Secretary of State are a disgrace and they are nothing but criminals.
IMO Voters are not RESTRICTED enough… I honestly want MORE restrictions.
A) ONLY AMERICANS once they PROVE they are citizens can register
B) ONLY those who pass an ACTUAL AMERICAN HISTORY and constitution test, can register
C) ANYONE who supports BLM, Wokeness, LEFTISM in schools etc, PERMANENTLY LOSE THEIR right to vote
D) anyone living off welfare for 2 or more years, LOSES their right to vote
Democrats supported by media are for anything which will help fraudulent voting. They are against anything insuring a honest vote such as voter ID, voting in the precinct where one lives, etc
Jim Crow= democrats. I don’t think Republicans had anything to do with Jim Crow laws. Biden does. He supported them for decades. Oh and I don’t show ID anymore. It’s a violation of my civil rights. If you don’t need ID to vote why would you need it for anything else. The Constitution was written to protect us from Biden. States need to start leaving the union.
What get’s me is for YEARS they’ve bee using the illogic that ‘id’s are racist’, YET PUSH FOR MORE AND MORE need for ID’s for every damn thing we do in society….
Nothing but false information coming from the left. I will guarantee that these people have not read the bill, but are just regurgitating something they have heard.
Read the damn bill!!!!! It actually EXPANDS voting times. It is less restrictive than regulations in Biteme’s home state.
No water while waiting? Again, READ THE BILL. It only stops political operatives from electioneering while people are waiting. Passing out water and stuff in an effort to “buy” a vote while in line is and always has been illegal. That means against the rules for all you dense lefties. Those rules have always been in place.
A president who is this uninformed is beyond disgusting. Let’s boycott him instead.
So many “smart” people have been lead far astray by the corrupt leftist lies and the media (but then I just repeated myself)
By the way (check it out), Jim Crow was a relic put in place by the Democrats
YOU actualy expect these total wastes of oxygen/food and space, to actually READ something??
Good. Now if they would do something about the corrupted (easily hacked) voting machines in Atlanta, Detroit, Phoenix, and Philadelphia we can actually make some progress in stopping corruption.
I SAY get bloody RID OF EVERY DAMNABLE voting machine period. GO BACK TO PEN AND PAPER and hand count the blighters..
It’s not voter suppression if You ask for ID. But they are running Commercials in Georgia. First the Commercial will say “it will raise your taxes” how will it raise taxes to ask for an ID ? ?? The democrats won’t say. Then they say it will cause ID thief. How will asking for ID cause thief of your Identity ???? Democrats lie.!!!
Heard on the radio there is estimated 200,000 people in Georgia don’t have an ID, but can easily get one for free in their respective county offices. I guess it is just too hard for some to do that. Isn’t there several counties on this earth that require an ID? I get the idea that in this country some behave as though they are not from this planet.
I’ve mentioned before that while in Peru, I found out that every Peruvian has to have a government ID and all eligible to vote has to or they get fined. This happened to a young Peruvian woman I know, who was going to school here in America. She didn’t vote in an election that was going on down there and got a notice of a fine. I can’t remember how much it was, but for her as a student, it was sizable. Down there an ID is required to travel by bus, train, or plane. Peruvians get get discounted fares in their travels. I had to show my passport for travel, to the Lima Zoo, sleeping arraignments, and of course Machu Picchu. I didn’t hear any complaints of racial discrimination, suppression, or unfairness while I was there.
So anybody complaining about the ID requirement to vote here in this country are working to allow fraud. If other counties that are not as well off as the United States can require IDs, so can we
Hell, i’ve heard similar from friends who live over in asia, that locals need ID for damn near everything, and get fined if they don’t vote in certain nations.. BUT THE REASON ITS NOT seen as racist in THOSE PLACES< is cause THEY ARE NOT LED BY WHITES.. Only whites can ever be racist…
Ever wonder why Dems get so yanked around about any type of voting rules? Only cheaters want lax or no rules. If Republicans were more prone to cheating then Democrats would demand strict voting laws. It’s like who wants more cops of the street, law abiding citizens or crooks?
Just like if Illegal aliens who voted, vote for republicans, DEMS WOULD SECURE THE BORDER and become the party of deportations, SWIFTLY.