Since the 2020 election and its climax on January 6, 2021, the Democratic Party, its activists, and its media members have continued to undermine Republican-led election integrity efforts by disenfranchising Black voters and -It has been portrayed as an evil conspiracy to rebuild the Crow South.

This unbridled rhetoric has its roots in the battleground state of Georgia. In March 2021, the state passed a law that puts limits on absentee voting and strengthens the ballot verification process by requiring a photo ID, driver’s license and state ID number. Or, use the last four digits of your Social Security number in place of the signature match. President Joe Biden described the new rules as “Jim Crow in the 21st century” and accused Georgia Republicans of voter suppression. In the aftermath, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) launched Major League Baseball (MLB) boycotted the All-Star Game in Atlanta, which also resulted in a lawsuit against the state. (Related: Georgia’s new voting law — myths and facts)

Biden and the Democratic Party’s rhetoric has escalated nearly a year later, with Biden doubling down on his “Jim Crow” propaganda.

“Their endgame? Turning the will of the voters into a mere proposition, something states can honor or ignore.”Biden said “Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things: voter suppression and election destruction. It’s no longer about who can vote. It’s about making it harder to vote. It’s about whether the vote really matters. That’s not an exaggeration. It’s a fact.”

Despite the hysteria, Georgia saw record turnout in the 2022 midterm elections. In the 2024 election, the battleground states that Biden won in 2020 and handed the Senate to Democrats will be break the previous recordmore than 1.4 million voters cast their votes in just one week of early voting.

Other Republican-controlled battleground states, including Texas and North Carolina, have also taken steps to ensure election integrity. texas Passed its own election security bill in 2021, following Georgia in March of the same year. In September 2024, officials announced that the North Carolina State Board of Elections had removed 747,000 names from the state’s voter rolls in the past 20 months for reasons including death, felony convictions, and crimes. If registration of a new address fails After moving to another prefecture.

Like Georgia, North Carolina set a new record for early voting this election. Over 350,000 votes cast October 17th. The Washington Post reported that an additional 150,000 votes had been cast by the afternoon of October 18, even though the western half of the state was still reeling from the damage caused by Hurricane Helen.

Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry Signed the Election Integrity Executive Order In August, it required state Departments of Motor Vehicles to share the names of aliens and nonpermanent residents with the Secretary of State. According to the order, state officials must include a notice when distributing voter registration materials that U.S. citizenship is required to vote. None of these rules come close to the level of disenfranchisement seen in the actual Jim Crow South before the enactment of civil rights laws in the ’60s. And of course, in Louisiana Already set a new record In early voting, 176,882 votes were cast on October 18, an increase of 1.3% from the first day of early voting in 2020.

Early voting in Texas begins Monday, and if Georgia, Louisiana and North Carolina are any indication, the one-star state will also see a record or two broken. The pace of early voting in 2024 could also result in record turnout across states.

Regardless of whether more Americans will go to the polls in 2024 than in 2020, these early numbers will put an end to the left’s fear-mongering claims that Republicans are ushering in a new wave of Jim Crow. It should calm down the situation. It’s hard to say whether Democrats believe in their conspiracy, but their rhetoric is nonetheless a powerful, if venomous, political attack that will do more harm than good to U.S. elections. . This is also true for Black Americans who lived through the actual Jim Crow era and the civil rights activists who worked to overturn racist laws, not just laws that required a photo ID to vote. It is also an insult to