Thread by @TheValuesVoter

Since the GOP is trying sanitize the new Georgia voting law, here are a few hard numbers to put things in a little clearer context.

The law makes the process of casting absentee ballots harder and, thus, will likely depress absentee votes.

Where were most absentee votes cast?

(Corrected)

The five Georgia counties that had the highest percentage of the state's absentee votes cast were Cobb, Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, and Chatham Counties.

Which also, coincidentally, made up a higher % of GA's absentee votes than it made up of GA's total votes.

2020 US Presidential Election in Georgia

Cobb County:
11.28% of GA's absentee votes
7.88% of GA's total votes

Fulton County
11.16% of GA's absentee votes
10.50% of GA's total votes

2020 US Presidential Election in Georgia

DeKalb County:
9.73% of GA's absentee votes
7.42% of GA's total votes

Gwinnett County:
9.38% of GA's absentee votes
8.28% of GA's total votes

2020 US Presidential Election in Georgia

Chatham County:
3.14% of GA's absentee votes
2.67% of GA's total votes

(I had incorrectly listed Cherokee county earlier. But Cherokee had a smaller share of absentee than total votes and so I corrected that).

Four of the five counties mentioned made up a significantly higher share of Georgia's total absentee vote than the rest of the state - in excess of 9% of Georgia's 1.3 million absentee votes cast in the 2020 election. And they're all in metro Atlanta.

It's also notable when you look at the demographics of these five counties that had the highest percentage of Georgia's absentee votes cast in the 2020 Presidential Election:

Cobb County - 28.80% black
Fulton County - 44.50% black
DeKalb County - 54.80% black

Gwinnett County - 29.80% black
Chatham County - 41.20% black

In all, 547,268 of the 1,316,943 absentee votes cast in the 2020 US Presidential Election in Georgia (41.56%) were cast by voters in Cobb, Fulton, DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties.

All four counties went blue not only in 2020, when Trump won GA by just 5 points, but also in 2016.

Georgia’s law bans mobile voting centers, like the units that Fulton County administered last year and which more than 11,200 Georgians used in order to cast their votes.

Not everybody has a car, easy access to public transportation or personal mobility.
nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/…

The units were run by Georgia’s most populous county, the home of the state Capitol (not secure enough, guys?) which was trying to make voting easier. But that’s the wrong answer!

The Georgia GOP doesn’t want to make voting easier. They want to make it harder.

If even a small percentage of those mobile voters in Fulton County didn’t have a chance to make it to the polls and a smaller percentage of those who voted absentee in Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett had a harder time casting their ballots, the outcome would be different.

And that’s the POINT!

* Not only in 2016, when Trump won Georgia by just 5 points but also in 2020.