[Dec 1, 2022: Atlanta, GA] Raphael Warnock’s in real trouble. Don’t be fooled by the record long lines of Black voters. Here’s the real story.
Two years ago Warnock won his Senate runoff only because he got three-quarters of a million mail-in votes — winning the mail-in vote by more than 2-to-1.
Absentee by Mail Votes
Kelly Loeffler [R]: 344,492
Raphael Warnock [D]: 739,529
Georgia Runoff 2021
So, within weeks of his victory, the Republicans in the Georgia legislature changed the law making it all but illegal to vote by mail in a runoff election. Part of the game was to shut 77% of the mail-in dropboxes in Atlanta. That’s why you see long lines of Black voters, because they can’t mail or drop off their mail-in ballots.
For the full story, watch our film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman.
We must end this Ballot Box Apartheid before it spreads to other states.
You can watch
Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman
online through the Georgia Run-off December 6.
It’s free at:
VigilanteMovie.com
This week only!
Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the book and documentary,
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
His latest film is Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman
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