Abrams: GOP Voter Integrity Laws Are Like Jan 6 ‘Assault’ Happening ‘Again and Again’

Wednesday on CNN’s OutFront, voter fraud enthusiast and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed falsely that Republican state lawmakers putting forth election integrity legislation is a continuation of the January 6 Capitol Hill chaos she calls an “assault on our democracy.”

“My responsibility is to do what I can to ensure that no matter who you are, and no matter who you choose, that you have the freedom to vote in the United States,” Abrams said.

We all know this is a lie. Abrams considers her responsibility to be ensuring that Democrats are free to commit widespread voter fraud so that Republicans never win another election.

“And that is why we have to keep laser-focused on the assault on our democracy,” she continued to blather. “An assault that not only happened on January 6 but has happened again and again since that time in statehouses that have restricted access to the right to vote and constricted not only that but the ability of election workers to do their jobs.”

For the millionth time: voter integrity laws actually expand access to the right to vote. Republicans simply want the process to be fair, open and aboveboard. Abrams knows her Party can’t win that way, so she propagandizes for the narrative that GOP attempts to reduce voter fraud are — what else? — racist.

Stacey Abrams

25 Known Connections

Characterizing Election-Integrity Measures As the Racist Equivalents of Jim Crow Laws

In a March 14, 2021 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Abrams characterized Republican efforts to ensure voter integrity in political elections as tactics rooted in racism. Said Tapper: “So Republican state lawmakers in your home state, Georgia, have introduced almost two dozen bills to make it more difficult to vote. They are going to end no-excuse mail-in voting, which has been there since 2005. They will reduce voting on Sundays, ask for stricter ID requirements, take away drop boxes. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in D.C. — he called this effort by Georgia Republicans ‘racist plain and simple.’ Do you agree, and is there any way for Democrats to stop these efforts?”

Abrams replied: “Well, first of all, I do absolutely agree that it’s racist. It is a redux of Jim Crow, in a suit and tie. We know the only thing that precipitated these charges — it’s not that there was a question of security — in fact, the secretary of state and the governor went to great pains to ensure America that Georgia elections were secure. So the only connection that we can find is that more people of color voted, and it changed the outcome of elections in a direction that Republicans do not like.” According to Abrams, Republicans were “using this false predicate of fraud” in order to promote reforms that would effectively “eliminate access to voting” for nonwhites.

To learn more about Stacey Abrams, click here.

EDITORS NOTE: This Discover the Networks column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

---