Publication Date
12-2022
Document Type
Comment
Abstract
Long regarded as a “safe” red territory, Georgia was thrust into the center of a national debate on federal and state elections when President Joe Biden flipped the state blue in the 2020 presidential election. In the wee hours of the morning on November 4, 2020, as the final votes were tallied and the electorate results became clear, the Peach State became the ignition point for a fiery, and often hyper-partisan, national debate over federal elections and how states conduct such contests. Due in part to the contrived rhetoric espoused by acolytes of the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) party, many Georgia voters, as well as disgruntled citizens, pundits, and politicians across the nation could not accept that a majority of Georgians had cast their ballots for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1992.
Recommended Citation
Wheeler, William L.
(2022)
"When the Dust Has Settled: Fallout from the 2020 Presidential Election and S.B. 202 placed Georgia’s Election Code in the Nation’s Crosshairs,"
Mercer Law Review: Vol. 74:
No.
1, Article 24.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol74/iss1/24