Georgians went to the polls in record numbers during the May 24 primary ahead of the crucial 2022 midterm elections, despite renewed GOP efforts to suppress the votes of the state’s communities of color. Passed in the wake of the 2020 elections, inspired in large part by former President Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud, Georgia’s SB 202 (the Election Integrity Act of 2021) is perhaps the most egregious example of Republicans’ nationwide efforts to roll back voting rights through a flurry of restrictive voting laws. Such laws disproportionately impact people in low-income communities and communities of color, and they are being passed at a moment when the power of communities of color to shape election outcomes is rapidly increasing. Case in point: Georgia’s Latinx community has grown by 30% over the past decade and now comprises 10% of the state’s population. In this on-the-ground report for our special series “Defending Democracy in the 2022 Midterm Elections,” TRNN’s Jaisal Noor and Jeffrey Moustache speak with organizers from the Georgia Alliance of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), an advocacy group that helps Latinx voters unlock their political power, about how they are working to “out-organize voter suppression” by mobilizing and empowering the state’s Latinx community.
Pre-Production/Studio: Jaisal Noor, Jeffrey Moustache
Post-Production: Jaisal Noor, Jeffrey Moustache, Cameron Granadino
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Fact Check; the term LatinX is extremely offensive and used by racist whites to degrade hispanics.
Fact Check; there was no voter suppression in Georgia that was a #RussianFundedPropaganda lie.
quit trying to manipulate the vote. If you want to vote, register to vote, show up at your precinct with id and vote. Its your duty and right. Quit insisting on compromising the integrity of the election with short cuts just because you are too lazy to go down and vote properly so votes can be verified as legitimate and legal.
Latino you mean?
Ok is the term Latinx an agreed on thing in the Hispanic community?
Wtf is Latinx? Sounds like something made up like ultra maga…sounds like something only colleges and multi billion/ trillion dollar companies would say. Even the Latin guy says latino and not latinx in this video 😂
I'm Mexican-American
Mexican born in USA
Stop using a made up word , there Latina or latino not that stupid X bs .
LatinX? No one Hispanic I know uses that term, they would laugh.
Soooo, just out of curiosity, can someone set up a stand (at someone's house) close to the voting places and hand out water there??? I am not in Georgia, otherwise I would!!!
I'm latino and truly think it's ridiculous that ppl are trying to change our language as a virtue signal. If you don't like latino or latina, us latin. It really is this simple but eliminates the divisiveness and offensive BS of trying to force a minority language to change. You keep saying latinx in this video while actual latinos in the video use the proper language and grammar.
RNN lost the plot joining corporate Breaking Points. You lost your hard-earned credibility in 1 move,
The Real Academia Española (RAE), the official source on the Spanish language released its first style manual–edited along with Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE) – for the Spanish language, and in the opening chapter, it rejects the use of “x” and “e” as gender-neutral alternatives. The academy said we should default to the masculine because it can also encompass the feminine.
What voter suppression? The last primaries had record turn-out. Only a fool and/or corrupt politician would want undocumented individuals voting away constitutionally protected rights. Show I.D., or no voting for you.
Edit: Every state needs stronger voting laws to combat things like ballot harvesting.
Only sovereign votes count.
You people don't count.
F you and your LatinX bull crap. No one wants this this term except the iltra woke. Voter supression is all bs too, I have never had any trouble voting and never will
As a Latino man I feel exactly like Kunta Kinte, from the movie Roots, when he was whipped into accepting his new name “Toby”. Stop calling is Latinx.
Latinxxx ??? Yeah that's my favorite category too. Anyways stop with the lies. I voted for orange man.
I am a life long Georgia resident. The idea that there is voter suppression is a thing in GA or that certain communities are being targeted for suppression is pure BS. To vote in GA you must 1) Be registered to vote. 2) Show up at your assigned polling place (if voting on election day). 3) Have a state issued ID. That's it
In our most recent election (May 2022) we had 17 early voting days. As for drop boxes for absentee ballots, every residence has a drop box. It's called a mailbox. Voting in GA is not hard to do or restrictive.
After hearing the "hard to vote" BS repeatedly leading up to the 2020 election I posted several times that I would help anyone be able to vote who wanted or needed help.
I offered to:
Help them to get registered
Pay for a State issued ID if they didn't have one
Help request an absentee ballot.
Drive them for early voting.
Drive them to vote on election day
I posted this on my facebook page several times leading up to the election with my phone number and asked all my friends to repost and give my number to anyone who may benefit from this. offer. I got zero takers, ZERO. If you are a citizen and you want to vote there are no obstacles in Georgia.
I love how people use the term "voter suppression" so they can cheat during elections. There are so many phrases the left use that are completely antithesis to the words in the phrase. Words have no meaning to them so lying comes natural. Never, ever trust a leftie.