Sebastian Hughes, DCNF 
Republicans in the U.S. House sent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger a letter flagging a report that a voter-education initiative spearheaded by Stacey Abrams is teaching students the state’s laws restrict voting, The Washington Times reported Thursday.
The letter, written by Reps. Rodney Davis of Illinois and Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, asked Raffensperger how he plans to combat the initiative, which is taught in Atlanta’s public schools, the Washington Times reported. It was also sent to members of the Georgia State Elections Board and the chair and vice-chair of the Fulton County Elections Board, the Washington Times reported.
Atlanta high school students were asked to attend a democracy class put on by the New Georgia Project, which Abrams founded in 2013, after the city’s public schools partnered with the group, as well as Rock the Vote, in August 2021 to implement a “Democracy Class Atlanta” lesson plan focused on “voting rights,” according to documents obtained in an open records request, Fox News reported.
The program “taught students that voter identification laws are ‘restrictive’ and make voting ‘more difficult,’ and that policies limiting ‘flexible voting options’ like mail-in voting restrict people’s ‘freedom to vote,’” the representatives wrote, the Washington Times reported.
Georgia’s Election Integrity Act was signed into law in 2021 in the aftermath of unfounded claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The law imposes a voter ID requirement, expands early voting in most Georgia counties, requires that counties have at least one absentee voting drop box and shifts more control over election administration to the state legislature.
Abrams has previously called the legislation “racist” and “a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie.”
“In fact, the secretary of state and the governor went to great pains to assure America that Georgia’s elections were secure,” she said in March 2021. “And so the only connection that we can find is that more people of color voted and it changed the outcome of elections in a direction that Republicans do not like.”
A spokesperson for Raffensperger did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Haven’t we learned yet that mail order presidents don’t work?
The questions asked in black and minority communities, schools, and black colleges around the country, ranging from several directions, regarding voting issues, rights, restrictions, voting place locations, voter ID, ease of getting to polls, and verification, etc, and Almost Completely Unonemously the answers came back as NO PROBLEM!
The Dems are attempting to invent issues that aren’t there in hopes that they can convince the people that they are too feeble-minded to find the poll location or that they can’t figure how to get ID, and they call That Voter Restrictions HA! ~ In fact, just about all of the people of color already had ID! WOW! GO FIGURE, Dems! It appears that the problem is you!
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Stacy Abrams is like the smelly fart that won’t go away.
IMO, Raffensberger and Abrams deserve each other.
Everyone knows that Abrams is a marxist hate filled racist. If they choose to follow her then let them do so in the knowledge they are the same as her. Students in Georgia should know better or perhaps they just don’t care as long as they can appear woke.
It’s not GEORGIA. It’s ATLANTA. Most of Georgia around Atlanta is in the Bible belt. They are red as blood!