Will Biden and Stacey Abrams Eat Their Words That Georgia’s 2021 Election Law Is Jim Crow 2.0?

Don’t bet on it, despite record voter turnout in the state’s primary.

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Left: President Joe Biden at the White House, February 15, 2022. Right: Stacey Abrams in Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2021.

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Only four months ago, President Biden came to Morehouse College in Atlanta to push Senate bills that would nationalize election administration and ban states from enacting voter-integrity measures of their own.

A centerpiece of Biden’s argument was a law Georgia passed in 2021 reforming the state’s chaotic procedures, which, through emergency Covid rules, led to some 40 percent of state residents casting mail-in votes in 2020, up from the normal 5 percent or so. Many of these ballots were cast without proper verification or monitoring.

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