President Joe Biden earlier this week misinterpreted a new Georgia law that he said “ends voting hours early.”
Biden believed that the law would cut voting hours from 7 p.m. to 5 p.m., making it harder for working-class people to cast their votes.
But the legislation keeps the original voting hours from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., as it has been on previous Election Days.
“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is,” Biden said during a press conference on March 25. “It’s sick. It’s sick … deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work.”
Part of the bill was to change the language of “normal business hours” to the more specific language of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The sweeping new bill will limit the use of ballot drop boxes, give state officials more power over elections, require voters to provide identification for absentee ballots and make it a crime to offer voters food and water as they wait in line.
“It has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency,” Biden told reporters. “They passed the law saying you can’t provide water for people standing in line while they’re waiting to vote? You don’t need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. You can’t provide water for people about to vote? Give me a break,” he said.
The president said the White House was working on a response to the bill.
“We don’t know quite exactly what we can do at this point. The Justice Department’s taking a look as well,” Biden said.
Source: Newmax
