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Journalist Zaid Jilani: Expansions of voting rights have made Georgia competitive again


Journalist Zaid Jilani said Monday that Democrats’ recent success in Georgia was due in large part to a “motor voter” statute that increased voter rolls.
“In 2016 they enacted what’s called AVR, automatic voter registration,” Jilani said in a Hill.TV interview. “The DMV will automatically register you to vote. I think that will probably also end up skewing towards a younger population.”
More widely publicized efforts to increased voter registration, he said, were “a drop in the bucket compared to what the AVR law did… I think over 4 million people were registered through that.”
In 2022, he added, “even if there’s a midterm backlash against [President] Biden, the Democrats still have a chance of taking the governor’s mansion and they still have a chance of picking up seats in the legislature. Georgia is returning to its more purple-ish position that it was in in the early 2000s, where you had [former Gov.] Roy Barnes or someone like that bein ....

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