Source: Record Turnout in Georgia?? MY A**!
by Greg Palast for Truthdig
A one-million-vote nose-dive in turnout was well-concealed by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp to cover up the effects of “Jim Crow 2.O” at the launch his presidential campaign.
[Dec 14, 2022: Atlanta, GA] From the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, math-challenged reporters have repeated the completely upside-down fable of a “record turnout” in the Georgia Senate runoff.
Record turnout? My ass! The official count, tucked away in the Georgia Secretary of State’s files, shows the turnout fell by a breathtaking one-million votes.
Facts matter. The faux “record turnout” is used by Republican pols to discredit the grossly partisan and racially poisonous effects of SB202, the law signed last year by Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp that the NAACP dubs “Jim Crow 2.0” It has become the model for vote suppression legislation already marching into legislatures from Texas to Wisconsin.
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