Brian Kemp signed the voting reforms in March 2021 imposing new rules on absentee voting that included requiring a photo ID and shortening the voting window, critics howled in outrage.īiden, who defeated former President Donald Trump in Georgia in 2020 to become the first Democrat to win the state since 1992, was among those predicting the law would put a damper on voting, especially among minority groups, and called it “un-American.” Stacey Abrams speaks to the news media outside a voting precinct on Tuesday. “The incredible turnout we have seen demonstrates once and for all that Georgia’s Election Integrity Act struck a good balance between the guardrails of access and security,” Raffensperger said in the statement. In the three weeks of early voting, more than 850,000 ballots were cast in person or returned via absentee ballot, representing a 212% jump over the 2020 presidential primary race and a 168% increase over the 2018 gubernatorial primary contest, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement released last Friday. Early voting in Georgia’s primary races has surged to record numbers despite dire warnings from Democrats that a new election law would suppress turnout - with President Biden likening it last year to “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”
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