Tag: voter suppression

Jim Crow and the Georgia Voting Law

Commentary At his news conference last Thursday, President Biden said of Georgia’s new voting law, “It makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.” Jim Crow was not a person, but unlike most former presidents, he has a museum: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. The name came from a song written by Thomas Dartmouth…


Accusations of Hate Divert Attention From Need to Address Election Integrity

The headline in the on-line edition of The New York Times on March 16 instantly caught my eye: “Florida Finds Election Fraud in High School Homecoming Votes.” Ah ha! I thought. So that’s where the Times’s crack team of investigative reporters looking into election fraud have been for the last five months: J.M. Tate High…


H.R. 1 Election Reform Bill ‘Threat to American Democracy’: Heritage Foundation Expert

An expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said that the Democrat-led election reform bill would eviscerate ballot security measures, amounts to a federal takeover of elections, and is a “threat to American democracy.” Hans von Spakovsky, senior fellow and manager of the election law reform initiative at the Heritage Foundation, told The Epoch…