Republican Governor Enacts "New Jim Crow" Voting Laws In Attempt To Steal Future Elections

Via America’s Lawyer: GA governor Brian Kemp enacts a voting bill being criticized for ushering in a "New Jim Crow" era, punishing Georgians who already have to wait hours for their chance to vote. Investigative journalist Greg Palast joins Mike Papantonio to break down the latest in state-sponsored voter suppression.

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A new voting law is being dubbed the New Jim Crow, it's caused a media frenzy and actually resulted in the arrest of a state representative. But anti voter legislation is nothing new in the state of Georgia. Joining me to talk about this is investigative journalist, Greg Palast, who's been tracking voter suppression efforts for 20 years, and that's a fact, Greg. I remember interviewing you about 20 years ago for the first time when you started uncovering all this, and you might remember with Air America and it just never stops does it. First things first. Greg, tell us about the significance of this new Georgia law and how it impacts voters. Take us there.

Well, first of all, let's begin with the fact that, that Georgia has always been running Jim Crow elections. It's one of the worst States and I've been investigating there for eight years, originally for Rolling Stone and Salon and the Guardian. And now I'm working with black voters matter fund. And, so it's an old story and now it's just getting much worse. They panicked because despite everything that they tried, they couldn't stop Biden, Ossoff and Warnock from winning Georgia, because it is a blue state as Martin Luther King the third told me eight years ago, when I began working there and investigating. He says, you just have to let us vote. Let the people vote. It's a minority and it's a white minority state right now and so, what they have to do something simple, eliminate black voters. This new law takes it a new step, a new horrific step down backwards into the Jim Crow darkness.

Okay. How do they do that? We keep hearing that line. This is awful. This is awful. Tell us, what are they doing? Lay out the first specifics about it. What are they doing?

Okay. I mean, everyone's heard I broke a story that part of the law is that if you give someone a slice of pizza or a bottle of water, which I witnessed these criminal activity by a Papa John's pizza pushing gang in Georgia, it is a felony crime, I kid you not, to hand someone, a slice of pizza in a line. Now understand this is Georgia where it's often pouring rain or, or humid horrid conditions. Why are the lines three, four, six hours long? For example, in Cobb County, they closed 6 of the 11 early voting stations, all 6 in African American neighborhoods. So of course, people then bunch up into the white districts that are left open for voting. The new law, the new law reduces the number of hours for early voting. This will make the election day lines longer. It also severely cuts back on dropboxes because, you know, the postal service has been a nightmare.

So people trying to mail in their ballots, mail them in, you just put them in a dropbox, which are by the way, watched 24/7 by cameras. They're highly secured. No one's ever said that there's an illegal vote put in those boxes. But now they've it two things. They've reduced the number of boxes by about two-thirds in the big cities. That is, which means voters of color, the color being blue, by the way. And they've reduced the number of dropboxes. They reduced number of early voting hours, again, crushing the lines. And even more horrendous, they have now said that any voter and this has been unnoticed so far, Mike, any voter may challenge an unlimited number of other voters challenging their right to vote on whatever specious grounds they come up with. And this is not theoretical.

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