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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/georgia-republicans-kelly-loeffler/
A Georgia Republican Brags That Voter
Suppression Helped Them in 2022
Just last week, we learned that a
Wisconsin Republican election
commissioner boasted of the party’s
success in dampening Black turnout,
especially in Milwaukee, last November.
Thanks to the state GOP’s "well thought
out multi-faceted plan," commissioner
Robert Spindell e-mailed colleagues,
37,000 fewer voters cast ballots there
than in 2018, "with the major reduction
happening in the overwhelming Black and
Hispanic areas." It could have cost
Democrat Mandela Barnes a Senate seat.
Now comes news that former Georgia GOP
senator Kelly Loeffler is bragging that
her party reelected Governor Brian Kemp
and scored big wins in the state
legislature at least partly because of
voter-suppressing Senate Bill 202, the
February 2021 law that severely
curtailed the state’s absentee ballot
and vote by mail programs and limited
other polling options. Loeffler doesn’t
quite claim that the bill suppressed
Black votes—though it probably did:
After the bill imposed restrictions on
voting by mail, mail-in ballots plunged
by 81 percent from 2020, and Black voter
turnout dropped from 2018 midterm levels.
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