The Washington Post editorial board admitted Wednesday that high voter turnout in Georgia's primaries this week assuaged "fears" about the state's "restrictive election law."
"Tuesday’s Georgia primaries attracted a notably large turnout, suggesting voters were motivated to reject the election deniers — and also assuaging fears about the state’s new, more restrictive election law," the board said.
Georgia's primaries saw high voter turnout on Tuesday after the state implemented the Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021, which was likened to "Jim Crow in the 21st Century" by President Biden and others.
The Washington Post editorial board praised the winners of two Republican primaries, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, "for their refusal to join [Trump's] malign effort to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results." Both incumbent candidates were challenged by Trump-backed contenders, former Senator David Perdue and current Rep. Jody Hice, respectively.
"Yet Tuesday's results do not mean that the nation's democratic system is out of danger," the authors wrote.
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