Biden’s Department of Justice has decided to make a frontal assault on election integrity by suing the state of Georgia over its moderate and common-sense voter integrity law. This makes one thing abundantly clear: the left is terrified.
The left knows they cannot win elections fair and square. Instead, they must double-down on their successful effort in 2020 to evade or repeal laws and provisions made to ensure election integrity. Georgia’s Election Integrity Act of 2021 threatens the left’s ability to benefit from voter fraud and irregularities. Consequently, they began to lie about the law, claiming that it would restrict voting rights. The juxtaposition is absurd.
The DOJ has now decided to support that big lie of disenfranchisement by attempting to convince a federal judge to overrule the Georgia law. This provides voter integrity supporters in Georgia with a critical opportunity to expose the complete myths perpetrated by the Stacey Abrams machine.
The lies are plentiful surrounding this law. There is the claim that the requirement that voters be required to show identification at the polls or to vote absentee is racist. It’s a bizarre claim, of course, as identifications are required to fly, open bank accounts, order alcohol, or drive a car. What’s more, the requirement is common in other states. Maryland and Pennsylvania (among other states) have nearly identical laws. So why aren’t American tax dollars are not being used to fight the disastrous provisions in those states?
Another complaint is that Georgia is disenfranchising voters by reducing the number of early-voting days to 17. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized this provision, even though her home state only allows its citizens 11 days of early voting. In New Jersey, Democratic Governor Phil Murphy sanctimoniously criticized Georgia’s early voting period. Nonetheless, he signed a bill providing for nearly half as many days of early voting.
The hypocrisy of the left is incredible, even though it is not surprising.
Others have complained that the Georgia law prohibits political activists from distributing campaign literature, food, or beverages to voters in line to vote. But they disregard the provision that allows impartial poll-workers to provide voters with self-service water. Again, Georgia is not alone. New York, Montana, and other states also prohibit similar practices.
While opponents of the law complain that Georgia requires voters to request a mail-in ballot in order to vote absentee, they ignore the reality that absentee voting in Georgia has a more liberal turnout than 16 other states. In fact, Delaware, Connecticut, and New York do not offer their voters no-excuse absentee voting at all.
The provisions of the Georgia law are benign. It provides a conservative floor for states that want to guard against fraud and irregularities permeating their elections. More rigorous laws are needed to ensure that the ballots of honest voters are not diluted by those that want to poison the ballot box with illegal voting.
So why would the DOJ target Georgia’s milk toast law when so many blue states have far more restrictive regulations? The answer is obvious. The left will stop at nothing to attack even moderate voter integrity restrictions in swing states, while leaving similar provisions in blue states unmolested. Can you blame them?
The left knows that their radical agenda is extremely unpopular with voters. They know they cannot win unless their most fervent supporters are left unconstrained to vote early and often in every election. They attempted to enact their radical agenda in Congress through H.R. 1 (the Corrupt Politicians Act) and failed thus far. Now, they will use the politicization of the DOJ to try to employ the courts to strike down these commonsense voter integrity laws.
The timing could not be more apparent. As a judge in Georgia looks into the state's 2020 election, it is becoming blatantly obvious that fraud and irregularities permeated the Georgia election. In fact, even Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a noted opponent of election integrity, recently acknowledged that thousands of absentee ballot applications from the 2020 election in Fulton County have mysteriously gone missing. The anomaly was discovered as part of a court supervised review of Fulton County’s tabulation of absentee ballots during last fall’s election.
Last year when Attorney General Bill Barr examined allegations of voter fraud, many in the media cried foul and accused him of politicizing the Department of Justice. Now media darling Merrick Garland’s DOJ has decided to file a hypocritical and blatantly political lawsuit attacking Georgia’s moderate law. Yet, the media is silent and refuses to call out the actual politicization of the DOJ.
Hopefully, the courts will not be as timid. Not only should the lawsuit be dismissed, but the DOJ should be sanctioned for using the Courts to advance Stacey Abrams political agenda.
Jesse R. Binnall is an expert on constitutional and election law and represented the Trump campaign in the 2020 Nevada election lawsuit.
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