Stacey Abrams, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, continues to assert that voter suppression tactics are in play in the state, even with sky-high voter turnout.
Abrams told CNN that a massive turnout of nearly four million voters in the contentious election doesn’t eliminate the possibility of underhanded efforts to limit voting.
Democrats have controversially asserted that Georgia’s voter laws echo the oppressive Jim Crow era, aiming to curb minority voting rights. Abrams specifically criticized the scaling back of mail-in voting options for 2024 compared to 2020.
“Well, while we are excited about who’s showing up, we have to understand that turnout does not mean there is not voter suppression activity,” she remarked.
Despite record voter turnout thus far in Georgia, @staceyabrams says “that does not mean there is not voter suppression activity.” pic.twitter.com/ui9h7eSUjl
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 1, 2024
“A lot of those voters in 2020 were able to vote by mail. One of the reasons we‘re seeing early lines is because they can no longer use the easier method of voting by mail because of SB 202, because of SB 189, laws that [Secretary of State Brad] Raffensperger and [Gov.] Brian Kemp supported and pushed forward,” she said.
“And what we are excited about is that here in the state of Georgia, despite the government making it harder to cast your ballot, people are willing to fight to make it happen anyway,” Abrams added.
“So they’re showing up; they’re standing in lines they shouldn’t have to stand in because they believe their voices matter and that this election matters. And we believe they‘re standing in these lines especially to support Kamala Harris.”
In Georgia, almost half of the projected electorate has already cast their ballots for the election. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, over 3.4 million people have voted early in person, with more than 226,000 sending absentee ballots.
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She is an ugly conspiracy theorist—she always has been. We need a national law that says you only get a mail-in ballot when you are unable to vote early or on election day. They go in a mailbox or post office, are handed to a letter carrier, or are dropped off at a county election office. Enough of this: counting late, correcting mistakes, which you can’t do if voting in person, and workers dropping off boxes of ballots with similar handwriting on many of them. And prove your citizenship. How the House HR 1 from 2019 is set up: one could use a relative’s address and fly from God knows where to vote on election day. Read it if you think I’m wrong. I read the 250 pages that are available online. I printed it, too.