"Joe Biden has an unusual way of saying thank you.
For the first time since 1976 — when Georgia threw its Electoral College votes to favorite son Jimmy Carter — the Peach State, by the narrow margin of 0.24 percent (11,779 votes), gave its 16 votes to Democrat Joe Biden. How does President Biden repay the favor? By supporting Major League Baseball (MLB) moving its All-Star Game from Atlanta due to recent legislation changing some of the rules on how votes can be cast and counted in Georgia.
Americans agree about making voting as easy as possible for eligible voters, while also putting safeguards in place to assure that elections are fair and honest. Beyond that, it gets a lot harder to get agreement between the two parties on the subject, or anything else for that matter.
According to those supporting the new law in Georgia, it makes voting easier and protects the integrity of the process. For those opposing the legislation, passed by a Republican majority in both houses of the Legislature and signed by Republican governor Brian Kemp, it is nothing more than a transparent effort to suppress voting among groups unlikely to give their votes to Republicans. Specifically, the accusation is that this is a deliberate attempt to suppress participation by black Americans."
