After New York voters rejected voter reforms at the ballot box on Tuesday, the question must be asked to liberal activists: Is the Empire State “Jim Crow on steroids”?
New York voters rejected a referendum that would allow for no-excuse mail-in voting, something allowed in Georgia and Florida. New York voters also rejected same-day voter registration, another popular provision among liberal activists.
Remarkable – New York voters appear to overwhelmingly reject allowing no-excuse mail-in voting (widely used across the U.S. and in states like GA and Florida) and allowing same-day voter registration. A huge blow to reformers and momentum for changing the state’s voting laws pic.twitter.com/TAmW3DrRa1
— Sam Levine (@srl) November 3, 2021
Georgia, which activists and Democratic politicians declared was returning to the Jim Crow era when it passed a new voting law earlier this year, allows no-excuse mail-in voting. Georgia still allows more days of early voting than New York, and both states have bans on people who aren’t poll workers handing out food or water to voters in line (unless, in New York, the handout is less than $1 in value).
If you’re eagerly awaiting the denunciations of New York for its voter suppression, you shouldn’t hold your breath. The liberal rage over states such as Georgia and Texas, which passed pretty straightforward laws that balance voting access and ballot integrity, only came because those states are run by Republicans.
Nowadays, liberal accusations of “voter suppression” are almost always bad-faith partisan attacks, not principled stands. That is why states such as New York, New Jersey, and Delaware have avoided the same frenzied press and protests over their relatively strict election laws.
President Joe Biden, former Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams, and liberal activists won’t have anything to say about New York — but they will be ready to denounce the next GOP-run state that doesn’t allow 24-hour drive-thru voting.
