The Left’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Propaganda Crumbles For Good As States Set Early Voting Records

Since the 2020 election and its climax on Jan. 6, 2021, the Democratic Party, its activists and its media apparatchiks have portrayed Republican-led election integrity efforts as a sinister plot to disenfranchise black voters and rebuild Jim Crow South.

The unhinged rhetoric had its origins in the battleground state of Georgia, where, in March 2021, the state passed a law that placed restrictions on absentee ballots and enhanced the verification process for said ballots, requiring a photo ID, driver’s license or state ID number or the last four digits of one’s Social Security number instead of a signature match. President Joe Biden attacked the new rules, which he described as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” and accused Georgia Republicans of voter suppression. In the aftermath, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a lawsuit against the state, while Major League Baseball (MLB) boycotted its own All-Star Game in Atlanta. (RELATED: Georgia’s New Voting Law — Myths And Facts)

Biden and the Democratic Party only escalated their rhetoric nearly a year later, with Biden doubling down on the “Jim Crow” propaganda.

“Their endgame?  To turn the will of the voters into a mere suggestion — something states can respect or ignore,” Biden said in Atlanta, Georgia, in January 2022. “Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things: voter suppression and election subversion. It’s no longer about who gets to vote; it’s about making it harder to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all. It’s not hyperbole; this is a fact.”

Despite the hysteria, Georgia saw a record turnout for the 2022 Midterm Elections. Now in the 2024 Election, the battleground state, which broke for Biden and delivered the Senate to Democrats in 2020, is shattering its previous record, with over 1.4 million voters casting a ballot in just one week of early voting.

Other Republican-controlled swing states, such as Texas and North Carolina, have also taken steps to ensure election integrity. Texas passed its own election security bill in 2021 after Georgia’s in March of that year. In September 2024, officials announced that the North Carolina State Board of Elections had removed 747,000 names from the state’s voter rolls within the past 20 months for reasons including death, felony convictions or a failure to register new addresses after moving to a different county.

Like Georgia, North Carolina saw a new record in early voting this election, with more than 350,000 ballots casted Oct. 17. Another 150,000 ballots were casted by afternoon of Oct. 18, even though the Western half of the state is still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Helene, according to The Washington Post.

Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed an election integrity executive order in August that requires the state’s Office of Motor Vehicles to share names of foreign nationals and non-permanent residents with the Secretary of State’s office. State agencies must include a notice that U.S. citizenship is required to vote when distributing voter registration materials, according to the order. None of these rules come close to the level of disenfranchisement seen throughout the actual Jim Crow South, before Civil Rights legislation in the 60s. And of course, Louisiana has already set a new record for early voting, with 176,882 ballots cast Oct. 18., a 1.3% increase from the first day of early voting in 2020.

Early voting in Texas starts Monday, and if Georgia, Louisiana and North Carolina are any indicators, the Lone Star state will also see a record or two broken. The pace of 2024’s early voting might also point to a record-breaking voter turnout across all states.

Whether more Americans turn out to vote in 2024 than 2020, these early numbers should finally put to bed the left’s fear-mongering that Republicans are instituting a new wave of Jim Crow. Although it’s difficult to say whether Democrats believe their conspiracies, their rhetoric is nonetheless a potent, if poisonous, political attack that does more harm than good to U.S. elections. It is also an insult to the black Americans who lived through actual Jim Crow and to the Civil Rights activists who worked to overturn racist laws, not laws that simply require so much as photo ID to vote.