More than 131,000 Georgia residents cast their ballots on Monday, the first day of early voting in the state, marking the highest first-day total for a midterm election and an 85 percent increase compared with the last midterm election in 2018. More than 345,000 residents have applied to vote, which is a 24 percent increase compared with 2018.
Georgians achieved the historic milestone despite a new law—the Election Integrity Act of 2021—that was widely denounced by Democratic politicians and woke corporate executives as a racist attempt to suppress voter turnout. President Joe Biden called it “Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” “Jim Crow on steroids,” and “Jim Eagle.” He compared Republican supporters of the legislation, which expanded access to early voting while rolling back some of the emergency measures implemented during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, to George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama.
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