The “Jim Crow 2.0” Lie

Wherein Kimberly A. Strassel exposes the lie that voter integrity laws suppress voter turnout.

“By Tuesday evening, the end of Georgia’s second day of early voting, more than 291,700 people had voted either in person or absentee. That marked a 75.3% increase over the same moment in the 2018 midterm and a 3.3% rise from the second day of early voting in the 2020 presidential election. Midterms rarely match the enthusiasm of presidential contests. President Biden told voters in Atlanta in January that Georgia’s election rules would “suppress your vote, to subvert our elections.” The state’s “Jim Crow 2.0” law was “insidious,” he said, urging his followers to “hate evil.” The solution, which congressional Democrats were then proposing, was a federal takeover of elections, which he said would be a victory of ‘democracy over autocracy, light over shadow, justice over injustice.'”

Potomac Watch, by Kimberly A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2022, Page A015