Georgians know how important every election is. This year, with “Jim Crow in the 21st century,” as Joe Biden put it, it would stand to reason that voter suppression would reign supreme, right? The last mayoral race took place in November 2017, and 96,777 Atlantans cast their ballots.
Related: Atlanta’s Mayor Urges Eyewitnesses to Call 911 Instead of Videoing Incidents This year, embattled Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms chose not to run, so the field was wide open, with most candidates focusing on the city’s crime problem. The first elections under the Election Integrity Act took place on November 2, coincidentally the same day the Atlanta Braves won the World Series, and one of the highest-profile contests was the Atlanta mayoral race. Audio is strong, but there are no special features. You get a bit of a pulsing image throughout due to a poor frame rate conversion and the image isn’t as clear as it could be. The transfer on my copy wasn’t particularly great. You can’t pass out water with a label that reads, “Vote for ,” but plain old bottles of water are perfectly fine.Īll of this goes to show that the left did everything it could to defeat Georgia’s voter law - including moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver. Crows Zero is released on DVD from MVM on 9th April. The bill banned candidates and political groups from handing out water or snacks in order to influence the vote. The problem was that the Faithful Citizens Network wasn’t faithful with the truth. Georgia’s new voting law, SB 202, makes it illegal for Christians to hand out water to voters. Churches then offer water as a witness to people waiting outside to vote in the sun, especially for parents with children.
One purportedly Christian group called “Faithful Citizens Network” hit on one aspect of the bill in order to slam it:Īs Christians, we are called to be a light unto the world.īecause of this calling, Christian churches often volunteer their spaces to be polling places for elections. Some of the criticism of the Election Integrity Act hinged on specific provisions in the legislation - again relying on lies and prevarication. Even Kamala Harris weighed in on how difficult it is for rural Americans to get an ID to vote - in the 21st century.
Stacey Abrams (D-Her Dreams) led the effort to “ Stop Jim Crow 2.0.” The effort to defeat the Election Integrity Act of 2021 was full of lies that decried the suppression of the minority vote. If the real intent of this law was to usher in “ Jim Crow 2.0,” as many Democrats claimed, it turned out to be Bizarro Jim Crow.įair Fight Action, the group led by fantasy Gov. Brian Kemp, was to make it “ easy to vote but hard to cheat” in the Peach State. The main point of the bill, according to Gov. Georgia’s new voting law - the Election Integrity Act of 2021 - took effect on July 1.