In this weeks post, I will be showing contrasting news clip videos from Fox News and NBC on Georgia's new recently passed voting laws.
Georgia is one of the first states to have passed major voting restrictions after last year's election, and Republican legislators around the country are advancing similar measures. People are fighting against Georgia’s new elections law calling it a blatant attack on voting rights, aimed specifically at suppressing the minority vote that helped propel Joe Biden’s presidential win and gave Democrats two critical seats in the U.S. Senate. Backlash from the corporate world has been growing, and Major League Baseball announced it was moving its All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to the law. President Biden said the law amounts to “Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” calling it “un-American” and “sick.”
Trump baselessly claimed that the election was stolen from him in Georgia and pressured Republican election officials to investigate. He dismissed their claims that the election was secure and that the results were accurate. Legislators seized on Trump's false claims and pushed dozens of restrictive voting bills this year. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said he and legislators set out to make it "easy to vote and hard to cheat."
A close examination of the language in the law shows it does contain new restrictions on voting and some of the restrictions are likely to make it disproportionately more difficult for poorer voters and voters of color to cast their ballots. The new law adds a host of restrictions, like requiring identification for mail voting and making it illegal to take food or water to voters in line. It shrinks the window for voters to request mail ballots, and counties and the state can send mail ballot applications only to voters who request them (as opposed to simply sending every registered voter a ballot application) and cannot fill in information ahead of time, and puts a limit on the number of ballot drop boxes allowed during early voting.
Brian Kemp signed the bill into law, calling it "common sense" legislation and saying “It expands access.” The bill does expand access to rural areas, but that's about it.
I will now let you guys watch the differences in the reporting by Fox News and NBC News on this issue. What are some of the key differences? Tones? Differences in rhetoric/language used?
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