Another secret to the Democratic Party’s success in Georgia is patience. A core network of organizers has been around for years, building relationships across the state and prioritizing local roots. Following the 2021 Senate race, the state’s Democrats immediately hired some of the top minds behind the field teams of Mr Warnock and Senator Jon Ossoff, then asked them to write detailed reports. about what they have learned.
“There is a conversation about organization around,” said Nse Ufot, former executive director of the New Georgia Project, a nonprofit that has become a hub for activists across the state. year in Georgia. “It’s not a transaction.”
Democrats have passed a restrictive new voting law.
If Georgia Republicans were hoping that making voting more difficult would help them regain the Senate seat they lost in 2021, they were wrong. And there are indications that the changes they introduced could backfire in some ways.
The battle for the right to vote kept Mr. Warnock’s base busy between elections. In 2021, when the Republicans pass a major election new voting law which Democrats and civil rights groups denounced as an attempt to suppress Black votes, the machine worked. Mr. Warnock strategists have adjusted their voter outreach plans accordingly, while outside activists organize rallies, organize rallies and essentially keep the internet going. Their grid works all year.
“We didn’t let it sleep,” Ms. Wartel said.
For Gerald Griggs, president of the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, the lesson is not that the outcry against the law is a false alarm, as Republicans have emphasized.
Anticipating the long queues at the polls, civil rights groups have planned statewide “parties to the polls,” featuring water and live entertainment, just beyond the distance. minimum from polling places under the new regulations. And the NAACP threatened to sue counties that allow frivolous lawsuits under the provisions of voting laws that allow unlimited challenge to individual ballots.
“The African-Americans in this state know how to campaign,” said Mr. Griggs. “But you don’t have to organize external voter suppression.”
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