How Georgia's new 'Jim Crow' voter suppression law could backfire for Republicans

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

If your policies are unpopular with most voters, and if your party narrowly lost an election because of a voter surge, and if your own party’s demographics are shrinking, what do you do? Do you change your policies so your party platform is more appealing to more voters? Or do you make it harder for people to vote?

Apparently, if you are among the Republican leadership in Georgia, you make it harder for people to vote.

On Thursday, Georgia Republicans passed restrictive changes to the state election process. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp immediately signed a bill into law that President Joe Biden accurately labeled "outrageous," "un-American" and "Jim Crow in the 21st Century."

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There’s also the chance that this voter suppression law could backfire for Republicans. As we saw in the April primaries, when Republicans in Wisconsin tried to make it harder for people to vote, people don’t like it when they feel their voices are being suppressed. The Wisconsin Republicans faced a backlash from voters, who turned up in massive numbers, viewing the hurdles erected by Republicans as a challenge. As a result, Democrats scored an important win when challenger Jill Karofsky ousted conservative incumbent Daniel Kelly from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-georgias-new-jim-crow-voter-suppression-law-could-backfire-for-republicans/ar-BB1f355G?li=BBnb7Kz

[bahboo]

1. Inshallah....

[Hoyt]

2. Fortunately, GA GOPers couldn't get away with stopping no-excuse absentee voting.

I think Abrams will get people registered and voting for midterms.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. And the GOP thugs still haven't learned their lessons from the backlash in Wisconsin when

they pissed off their voters who retaliated by voting in massive numbers to cause the GOP losses in WI. The GOP idiots are proving to all that they don't want responsible voters, they don't want Americans to vote at all, they don't want voter oversight of their corruption,
incompetence, and laziness. They know that their record stinks to high hell and they have nothing to offer to the average American voter.

[onetexan]

4. Being the party of regressive conservatism they have no new ideas

Just backwards, conspiratorial fearmongering and blame, so the only way they can win is to cheat -what they've been doing the past 30 years, or longer.