By Mike Howell | April 19, 2021 | 10:29am EDT
An individual prepares to vote. (Photo credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
The Heritage Foundation released a fact check Friday of some of the most egregious lies being echoed by members of Congress, the media, Hollywood, and corporate America about the new election integrity reform in Georgia. These reforms are about one thing making it easier for American citizens to vote, while making it harder to cheat.
Myth 1: The Georgia election law discourages voting/suppresses votes.
The Truth: Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, said, “Overall, the Georgia law is pretty much in the mainstream and is not regressive or restrictive. The availability of absentee ballots and early voting is a lot more progressive than what’s in the blue states.” The Heritage Foundation recently validated this statement by comparing Georgia’s law to other states’.
Stacey Abrams, center, has been a leading opponent of Georgia’s new election integrity law. Many of the law’s critics are spreading disinformation about what it is actually about which is to make it easier for American citizens to vote, while making it harder to cheat. (Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images)
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Mike Howell is senior adviser for executive branch relations at The Heritage Foundation. A lawyer, he previously worked in the general counsel s office at the Department of Homeland Security and, before that, for the chief oversight committees of the House and Senate.
The Heritage Foundation released a fact-check Friday of some of the most egregious lies being echoed by members of Congress, the media, Hollywood, and corporate America about the new election integrity reform in Georgia. These reforms are about one thing making it easier for American citizens to vote, while making it harder to cheat.
April 14, 2021 - 4:30pm
By Don Wiener and Alex Kotch
State legislative leaders and members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are spearheading many of the GOP s efforts at voter suppression in the states, especially those that saw close 2020 presidential results. More than 360 bills have been introduced in 47 states to restrict voting access since the beginning of the year, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, which tracks state legislation on voting and elections.
The Center for Media and Democracy has determined that more than 100 Republican politicians connected to ALEC in just six battleground states are lead sponsors or co-sponsors of those bills.