plugged in. nevada. they have doubled turnout in georgia. spacey abrams said jim crow 2.0 if the election reform laws pass. here we are double turnout. this election is unique in a whole lot of ways. it s the first since the height of covid. the first since january 6th. so much has changed in our political discourse. do you think all models of voter behavior will stand up in today s environment? are we in the middle of something completely new here? if we re in the middle of something completely new, there s been no real warning signs of that. abc news came out with a poll. the economy. inflation. crime. those are the top issues. whether it s covid or january
the early vote. with republicans down from 2020 in what is a very big early vote, and down from 2020 in most senate battleground pulling, top of a red wave is wildly premature. again, reflecting what we were talking about with adrian there. do you agree, and what is early voting telling, you what are you hearing? again, this goes into the horse race narrative that the media likes to do coming up in the run up to midterm election or a presidential. i think everyone needs to just take a breath here. early voting and voter behavior is really all over the place because what we are basing it on from 2018 to 2020 to now is all over the place because we had a pandemic in the middle of this. a lot of states change the way in which you vote, voter behavior, republicans used to have no problem with early voting or then they completely flipped on the heads. now we see democrats who are the majority of early voting in
we have a record turnout. it s never been easier to register. we have 6.9 million active registered voters and it looks like we will probably be pushing well over 4 million which is what we had in 2018. we won t hit the presidential number, 5 million, but we are showing that here has proper guardrails on accessibility and we believe we are the proper model for election integrity and election access. senator, what you think when he says that, what is your response? we know voter turnout is not a reflection of whether or not voter suppression exists and under senate bill 202, there has been a lot of work to educate voters on how they need to change the voter behavior and there has been a huge push for people to vote early and vote in person. we also know that some of the provisions of senate bill 202 are restrictive in nature and do disenfranchised voters, including the provision that allows unlimited voter
the bill that you referenced earlier, the law that you referenced earlier changed over 50 of georgia s laws and so we have yet to see the impact of how these many changes are going to affect the voter experience. we are talking about cutting over 100 days from the absentee vote by mail timeline. as you mentioned before, a cap of one drop box per county, or when drop box per 100,000 voters. they ve added five new crimes. two of them are felonies. they re criminalizing a lot of the voter behavior. a lot of the voter support activity that we see that helps encourage participation. but also that helps keep peoples spirits high as they deal with trying to overcome voter suppression. i m talking about the water carriers and faith leaders, and girl scouts, and boy scouts who hand out snacks to voters who