{"id":4733,"date":"2021-04-12T04:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2021-04-12T04:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:22:23","slug":"anderson-quoted-in-wabe-story-on-new-georgia-voting-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/04\/12\/anderson-quoted-in-wabe-story-on-new-georgia-voting-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Quoted in WABE Story on New Georgia Voting Law"},"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, was recently\u00a0quoted in a story produced by Atlanta&#8217;s WABE. The story, &#8220;The Good, The Bad And The \u2018Petty\u2019 In Georgia\u2019s New Voting Law,&#8221; discusses the effects of and debates about the state&#8217;s new voting legislation. Read an excerpt quoting Anderson below along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-petty-in-georgias-new-voting-law\/\">full piece<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<em>It also bans counties from accepting private grant money used to open more polling sites and hire more workers to process absentee ballots. &#8216;When you\u2019re counting 2,000 votes, that\u2019s one thing, when you\u2019re counting hundreds of thousands of votes, that\u2019s another,&#8217; said Emory University professor Carol Anderson.<\/em><\/p><p><em>&#8220;Anderson, who studies the history of voting rights, says a one-sized fits all approach to running elections is impractical and disproportionately affects voters in larger cities \u2014 often minority voters. Anderson says Georgia lawmakers from both parties should embrace the record voter turnout seen in the 2020 election cycle. &#8216;But instead of that, we get this cauldron of gloom and doom, and we get this horrible bill that becomes a law that is designed to basically take the power away from voters,&#8217; she said.<\/em>&#8220;<\/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, was recently\u00a0quoted in a story produced by Atlanta&#8217;s WABE. The story, &#8220;The Good, The Bad And The \u2018Petty\u2019 In Georgia\u2019s New Voting Law,&#8221; discusses the effects of and debates about the state&#8217;s new voting legislation. Read an excerpt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","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=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}