{"id":4409,"date":"2021-01-23T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T14:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2021-01-23T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T14:21:19","slug":"anderson-identifies-post-election-voter-suppression-efforts-in-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/01\/23\/anderson-identifies-post-election-voter-suppression-efforts-in-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Identifies Post-Election Voter Suppression Efforts in GA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, offered analysis in <em>TIME <\/em>of voter suppression efforts in Georgia following the 2020 general election and January runoff elections for Georgia&#8217;s two senate seats. Anderson&#8217;s most recent book is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/one-person-no-vote-9781635571387\/\">One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy<\/a><\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2018). Read an excerpt from the piece below along with the full article: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5928991\/georgia-republicans-voting-restrictions\/\">After Georgia Flips Blue, Voting Rights Advocates Brace for New Voting Restrictions<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Some voting rights advocates and experts don\u2019t buy that reasoning. &#8216;It\u2019s bull,&#8217; says Carol Anderson, chair of African American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. &#8216;So what we\u2019re saying is that when you know you\u2019ve sent out XYZ millions of ballots and you know the kinds of statistical returns you\u2019re going to have on that, that you\u2019re not going to provide the staffing to handle it?&#8217;<\/p><p>&#8220;She feels lawmakers\u2019 sudden interest in alleged fraud in mail voting is entirely politically motivated. &#8216;It was the use of those absentee ballots, particularly by folks who haven\u2019t used them before that\u2026helped flip the state blue,&#8217; she says. &#8216;Let\u2019s be real clear here. The Republicans would not be looking at this if\u2026 you hadn\u2019t had the use by African Americans of mail-in voting absentee ballots.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, offered analysis in TIME of voter suppression efforts in Georgia following the 2020 general election and January runoff elections for Georgia&#8217;s two senate seats. Anderson&#8217;s most recent book is One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}