By now, all of you should be au courant with the attempts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to enact a series of voter-suppression laws. The state that’s the poster-boy for this democracy-denying activity is Georgia, the state that fell to Joseph Biden in the recent presidential election and then sent two new Democratic senators to Washington.
The result of the 2020 election has sent Republicans into fits of conspiracy-seeking amid claims (all rejected in multiple court cases) of an election stolen by voter fraud.
However, mirabile dictu (as Cicero might put it), the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, (who, in the past, has not proven to be the most scrupulous practitioner of voting ethics; when running for governor while serving as Georgia’s secretary of state, he refused to recuse himself from supervising his own election) proclaimed loud and clear that the new voting legislation “has nothing to do with potential fraud or not.” (1)
What a breath of fresh air! No BS about dead people voting or smuggled ballots or the rest of the crap that other GOPers were peddling. The Georgia Republicans were simply intent upon breaking a system that worked perfectly in order to keep thousands of fellow Peach Staters from voting because they would mark their ballots for the wrong party.
One provision of the new laws that got the attention even of that noted pinwheel Lindsey Graham, GOP senator from South Carolina, was the criminalization of volunteers’ providing drink or food to voters waiting on line.
Chris Wallace: “Senator, why on earth, if Americans are willing to wait hours to vote, would you make it a crime for people to come and give them a bottle of water?”
Graham: “Well, all I can say is that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, I agree with you there.” (2)
Governor Kemp, however, saw something very American about such a ban:
"They can order a pizza," Kemp said of voters waiting to vote. "They can order Grubhub or Uber Eats, right?” (3)
In other words, freebee handouts are an un-American criminal offense—but capitalism should be rewarded.
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The Moral:
In Georgia, that Kit Kat must be purchased!
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(1) https://www.theroot.com/georgia-governor-says-states-voter-suppression-law-isnt-1846599302
(3) https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-gov-brian-kemp-says-175707994.html
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