Early voting in Georgia began on Tuesday, with more than 328,000 early and absentee ballots being cast. That is a 123% increase from the previous record for the first day of early voting. This comes after 90% of Georgia voters said voting in the 2022 midterm elections was easy, with just 0.6% of voters (and 0% of black voters) saying their experience was poor.

Clearly, the election reforms Georgia Republicans passed after the 2020 election did not make voting more difficult, and did not amount to voter suppression, “Jim Crow 2.0,” “Jim Crow on steroids,” or “Jim Eagle.” In other words, Democratic politicians lied about Georgia’s election laws to delegitimize future losses and punish the state for electing Republicans.

President Joe Biden was the one who called the law “Jim Crow on steroids” and “Jim Eagle,” pushing these lies while pressuring Major League Baseball to pull its All-Star Weekend from Atlanta, which MLB did. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) admitted to peddling false info about the law. Stacey Abrams, the 2018 gubernatorial loser who ran around claiming voter suppression stole the election from her, continued to peddle propaganda about the system up until her 2022 defeat consigned her pathetic political career to the ash heap of history.

Major League Baseball, after its one-time boycott of the state, returned the All-Star Weekend to Atlanta for 2025, an implicit admission that either the league willingly took part in a Democratic smear campaign to economically punish Georgia for its Republican policies or that MLB leadership got played by Democrats. Coca-Cola declared that conservative policies were “unacceptable” and that the law was a “step backward.”

In that case, maybe Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey can explain why he thinks record early voting turnout is a “step backward.”

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At the end of the day, there are only two options here. The first is that Democrats knowingly lied about what the Georgia election law did and did not do, knowing they could pressure weak-minded corporations such as Coca-Cola and MLB into doing their bidding. The second is that Democrats did not bother to read the law and decided to invent their own fictional law to argue against, knowing that they likely wouldn’t win Georgia every year and needed an excuse on which to blame their 2022 and other future losses.

Ignorance is not an excuse, though. Either way, this was an organized, reckless, toxic political strategy designed to divide the country and undermine trust in elections based on absolutely nothing that was remotely true. It is yet more proof that Democrats are willing to tear the country apart in their constant pursuit of political power, no matter what they have to make up to do so.