I am shocked, shocked that Georgia Republicans are surprised by the backlash they are receiving over their recently enacted voter suppression — I mean, election reform — law. Public perception is important, so they need to ask themselves whether these “reforms” would have been pushed through if Donald Trump had won the election? The answer is obviously no, so the law’s purpose is to make it more difficult for Democrats to win an election in Georgia.
Then, even though it didn’t make it into the final law, there was an initial proposal to eliminate early voting on Sundays, which was a bald-faced attack on the “souls to polls” voting tradition popular with Black voters.
Once that genie was out of the bottle, there was no putting it back in. Finally, nothing says transparency like signing a bill into law at night, behind closed doors. Move along, nothing to see here, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. So if Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wants someone to blame for this debacle, he should just look in the mirror.
— David Kocher
Eagle River
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