How much more proof do you need that Democrats want elections to be chaotic and easier to steal?
On Thursday, lawmakers in Georgia passed an election integrity bill that imposes new rules for challenging voters and makes it easier for third-party candidates to get access to the ballot.
"The bill would grant access to Georgia’s ballot to any political party that has qualified for the presidential ballot in at least 20 states or territories,” the Associated Press reports. "The change could be a boost to independent candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose campaign has spooked Democrats worried it could draw support away from President Joe Biden."
Another part of the bill streamlines the process for cleaning up the voter rolls.
"The bill also spells out what constitutes 'probable cause' for upholding challenges to voter eligibility, which could lead to voters being removed from the rolls,” the report continues. "Probable cause would exist if someone is dead, has voted or registered to vote in a different jurisdiction, has registered for a homestead exemption on their property taxes in a different jurisdiction or is registered at a nonresidential address."
Imagine that: being dead is probable cause for removing a person from the voter rolls. It’s hard to imagine why anyone would oppose this, save for the fact that dead voters have fairly consistently voted for Democrats.
Naturally, Georgia Democrats are outraged.
Democrats slammed the provision, saying it would enable more baseless attacks on voters that would overwhelm election administrators and disenfranchise people. More than 100,000 voters have been challenged in recent years by Republican activists who say they are rooting out fraudulent registrations, with thousands of challenges submitted at a time in some large Georgia counties.
Rep. Saira Draper, an Atlanta Democrat, said the provision was based on “lies and fearmongering.”
“You know the policy of not negotiating with terrorists,” she said. “I wish we had a policy of not making laws to placate conspiracy theorists.”
Democrat Ruwa Romman of Duluth said the bill and others like it chip away at confidence in the U.S. election system, a bedrock of its democracy.
“We have a responsibility to push back on lies, not turn them into legislation,” she said.
The bill, which is expected to be signed by Gov. Brian Kemp, would mandate that counties promptly disclose the outcomes of all mail-in ballots within an hour of polls closing. Additionally, it allows counties to employ paper ballots for elections with fewer than 5,000 registered voters—a provision slated to take effect in 2025.
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It’s hardly shocking that Democrats are opposed to a bill that aims to keep dead people from voting and alive people from voting twice. Joe Biden’s state-certified victory in the state in 2020 was by less than 12,000 votes, and there were widespread accusations of fraud.
It may be a moot point in this election, as Trump has a RealClearPolitics average lead in Georgia of +5.2 points right now and has been consistently leading in the polls there for months. But Democrats just can’t help themselves; any effort to ensure election integrity is met with rampant opposition from them.
