Peach Tree Times

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Friday against Georgia’s recently enacted voter integrity law, alleging it restricts voter access, according to a report by National Review.

The lawsuit is being filed despite numerous reports showing that President Biden’s home state of Delaware and other Northeastern states have more restrictive voting laws than does Georgia.

“Few states have more limited voting options than Delaware, a Democratic bastion that allowed little mail balloting before the COVID-19 pandemic hit,” wrote Russell Berman of The Atlantic.

Berman continued, “Biden has assailed Georgia’s new voting law as ‘Jim Crow in the 21st Century’ for the impact it could have on black citizens. But even once the GOP-passed measure takes effect, Georgia citizens will still have far more opportunities to vote before Election Day than their counterparts in the president’s home state, where one in three residents is black or Latino."

The new Georgia law institutes a voter ID requirement, which according to Heritage Action for America, 97% of registered Georgia voters either have or can easily obtain. According to a January Atlanta-Journal Constitution poll, 74% of Georgia voters support voter ID requirements.

The law also tightens ballot drop box security, forms stricter rules for absentee voting and enacts other voter integrity protections.

In April, state Rep. Wes Cantrell (R-Woodstock) compared Georgia’s voting law with Delaware’s by suggesting in a sarcastic announcement posted on his Facebook page that he would introduce legislation to make Georgia’s law more like Delaware’s.

He outlined five key areas of the law he would like to change:

"1. Instead of having up to 19 days of early voting in Georgia, we will have zero days of early voting just like Delaware. 

"2. Instead of having no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia, you will have to have the excuse of being sick or disabled to vote absentee just like Delaware.

"3. Instead of having plenty of secure drop boxes in Georgia, there will be no drop boxes just like Delaware.

"4. Instead of being able to get drink/food from a non-poll worker outside of the 150-foot buffer and drink from a poll worker within the barrier in Georgia, it will be illegal to receive anything of value while standing in line to vote just like Delaware.

"5. Instead of being able to vote in relative quiet in Georgia, your name will be announced out loud (and your party affiliation during a primary) so that your vote can be challenged by anyone in the precinct just like Delaware."

“I have some advice for President Biden,” Cantrell added. “Take care of your own home state before you say a word about Georgia. People in glass houses shouldn’t be throwing stones.”