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Media (Wrongly!) Claimed GA Law Would ‘Restrict’ Voting

Preliminary numbers show a record 5.29 million Georgia voters cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, an increase of at least 290,000 from the 4.99 million who voted four years ago. Just three years ago, the liberal media trumpeted how a new Georgia law was an effort to “make it harder to vote,” to “restrict voting rights” or amounted to “voter suppression.”

There’s no way to reconcile a significant increase in voter turnout with media claims that Georgia Republicans had rigged the system to “suppress” voter turnout. That doesn’t mean you’ll hear a lot of apologies from journalists who got it wrong in 2021, even though the record shows their coverage consisted of credulously repeating Democratic talking points that turned out to have no basis in reality.

“The Georgia Senate on Tuesday pushed through the first…

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