How Trump’s False Claims Inspired Georgia’s Voting Law
The state's effort to suppress the vote was supercharged by the former president's conspiracy theories about voter fraud.
Waiting to vote in Atlanta, November 2016.
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If elections have consequences, as the cliché goes, then so do lies. Both kinds of consequences were on display this week in Georgia.
On the same night that former President Donald Trump was on Fox News minimizing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a law restricting voting rights in the state. Think of it as the legislative response to Trump’s false claim that rampant voter fraud denied him a victory in Georgia.