Don’t be fooled by press releases from Georgia’s Republican voting chiefs. The reason there is “record turn-out” on each day of voting so far is that, under new GOP-written law, the number of early voting days have been slashed, so that more voters with fewer voting days will create “record” turn-out — also boosted by a giant leap in early voting in Republican counties. This is hardly evidence that there is no “Jim Crow” in Georgia voting.
Adding to the “record” turn-out: The new state law, SB202, slashed the number of dropboxes in the two Black population centers of Atlanta and Savannah by 75%! While, at the same time, state law INCREASED the number of drop-boxes in rural white counties.
And the state is keeping secret the number of “provisional” ballots cast — which would tell us how many vigilante vote challenges are shunting voters of color to these “placebo” ballots which CANNOT BE COUNTED unless the challenged voter personally appears at their county election offices to prove their address. Not many white folk are forced to run this obstacle course.
As Gerald Griggs, President of the Georgia NAACP, says in our film, “This is what Jim Crow 2.0 looks like.”
Meet Griggs — as well as the MAGA fanatics leading the attack on voter rolls — in our documentary, Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen, narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen and George DiCaprio.
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Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the book and documentary, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
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