{"id":3353,"date":"2021-04-12T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/?page_id=3353"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:22:48","slug":"georgia-voting-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/?page_id=3353","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Voting Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/30\/biden-falsely-claims-new-georgia-law-ends-voting-hours-early\/<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \" data-el=\"text\">On Election Day in Georgia, polling places\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/georgia.gov\/vote-election-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m<\/a>., and if you are in line by 7 p.m., you are allowed to cast your ballot. Nothing in the new law changes those rules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>However, the law did make some changes to early voting. But experts say the net effect of the new early-voting rules was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Somehow Biden managed to turn that expansion into a restriction aimed at working people, calling it \u201camong the outrageous parts\u201d of the law. There\u2019s no evidence that is the case. The president earns Four Pinocchios.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qitjRjbD6M\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-hit-4-pinocchio-fact-check-wildly-outlandish-claims-ga-election-law\/\">Biden Hit with 4-Pinocchio Fact Check for Wildly Outlandish Claims About GA Election Law<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-hit-4-pinocchio-fact-check-wildly-outlandish-claims-ga-election-law\/embed\/#?secret=qitjRjbD6M\" data-secret=\"qitjRjbD6M\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Biden Hit with 4-Pinocchio Fact Check for Wildly Outlandish Claims About GA Election Law&#8221; &#8212; The Western Journal\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/04\/fact-check-major-league-baseball-moves-all-star-game-over-law-that-expands-some-voting\/<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">CLAIM: Major League Baseball (MLB) is moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta because of a law that restricts voting.<\/p>\n<p>VERDICT: FALSE. The new Georgia law actually expands some voting, contrary to claims by Democrats and the media.<\/p>\n<p>MLB became the latest victim of a hoax about Georgia\u2019s voting law when it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/04\/02\/mlb-caves-biden-moves-all-star-game-in-response-to-ga-voting-law\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0Friday that it would move the 2021 All-Star Game out of the state. In a statement, MLB said it supports voting rights and \u201copposes restrictions to the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Major corporations based in Atlanta, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/02\/coca-cola-faces-harsh-backlash-after-ceo-blasts-georgia-election-laws-patriots-will-choose-another-beverage\/\">Coca-Cola<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/31\/delta-ceo-georgia-voting-law-unacceptable\/amp\/\">Delta Air Lines<\/a>, have also criticized the new law harshly. But as the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/woke-and-weak-ceos-11617316767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0in an editorial Thursday, \u201cThey\u2019re denouncing Georgia\u2019s election law, but have they read it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/woke-and-weak-ceos-11617316767<\/p>\n<p>The public debate on Georgia\u2019s new voting law has become a stew of falsehood, propaganda and panic. Part of the blame lies with the partisan distortion of Democrats, part with their media echoes, and now part with CEOs of major companies who are uninformed at best or cowardly at worst.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/mlb\/colorado-site-of-new-mlb-all-star-game-has-more-restrictive-voting-laws-than-georgia\/ar-BB1fmbFK<\/p>\n<p>Major League Baseball (MLB) plans to move the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in protest of Georgia&#8217;s new restrictive voting laws, despite Colorado, in some cases, having more stringent laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/30\/biden-falsely-claims-new-georgia-law-ends-voting-hours-early\/ On Election Day in Georgia, polling places\u00a0are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and if you are in line by 7 p.m., you are allowed to cast your ballot. Nothing in the new law changes those rules. However, the law did make some changes to early voting. 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