Democrats are crying racism after Georgia Republicans added a voter ID requirement to make the state’s elections more secure. And the notable issue is that the vast majority of those polled — including black and minority voters — support the new measure. This from The Western Journal.
Earlier this month, the Georgia state Senate passed S.B. 202 that included commonsense measures like tightening procedures for polling locations and requiring voters to present identification to request and cast absentee ballots.
Democratic critics have charged that the bill is voter suppression fueled by white supremacy, using the default accusation that has become their Pavlovian response to all Republican-initiated legislation.
Democratic Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon committed so fully to that narrative that she attempted to stop Republican Gov. Brian Kemp from signing the bill into law and was arrested for trying to disrupt the proceedings.
Biden also weighed in, calling such measures “sick” and the “most pernicious thing” during his first news conference Thursday.
“This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle. I mean, this is gigantic what they’re trying to do, and it cannot be sustained,” he told reporters in a rambling answer about new election-security laws state legislatures are pushing.
Major media outlets like NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer and others have claimed the new measures are racially-motivated voter suppression tactics as well.
Two voting rights groups filed a lawsuit to block the legislation practically before the ink on the governor’s signature was dry, The Guardian reported.
“Majorities of whites (74%), blacks (69%) and other minorities (82%) say voters should be required to show photo identification before being allowed to vote,” Rassmussen Reports found among 1,000 likely voters polled throughout the U.S.
Even along party lines, 60 percent of Democrats, 89 percent of Republicans, and 77 percent of unaffiliated voters responded in the affirmative.
"Should voters be required to show photo identification such as a driver’s license before being allowed to vote?"
1000 National Likely Voters – Yes
White – 74%
Black – 69%
Oth Non-White – 82%
All Voters – 75%75% Support Voter ID Laws https://t.co/NnqM90fgGi
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 28, 2021
The most shocking revelation is not that actual voters disagree with the paternalistic naysayers who claim to know better, but that their claims of voter suppression and racism go so largely unchallenged.
Underpinning that argument is the assumption that non-white citizens are incapable of complying with simple voter ID requirements — and it’s a claim that only the vilest white supremacist could make with a straight face.
What say you Def-Con News readers? Do you believe a requirement for ID to vote is unreasonable? Ensuring an individual is eligible to vote where they’re desiring to vote and that they are who they say they are is no different than requiring ID to drive an automobile, board an airplane, cash a check, or dozens of other tasks in modern America. And requiring ID for any of these tasks has nothing to do with skin color. Again democrats are wrong and have nothing to support their effort so they voice their go-to favorite: Racism.
