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The key to Charlie Kirk's logic is making you forget what he just said. Case in point: his newest @NewsweekOpinion piece on Georgia's new election law. This oped also should show how far Kirk has wandered into anti-democracy. A thread 1/x https://www.newsweek.com/georgias-voting-law-doesnt-go-far-enough-opinion-1581740
First illogic: Kirk says election law expert @marceelias is racist for asking whether voters can enter correct license number for absentee app. Kirk says E implies "black people are not smart enough to find" number. E's tweet doesn't mention race: 2/x https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1377752717951655941?s=20
After defending smartness of black voters, Kirk then calls first time absentee Georgia voters stupid: "one would expect that, with so many more people voting absentee for the first time, the rejection rate would go up" due to "user error by first-timers." 3/x
Second illogic: Kirk praises the expanded early voting days in Georgia but then calls for their elimination: "Georgia's leadership should have returned the state to a single voting day, as opposed to the insanity of weeks and months of early voting." 4/x
Kirk cites as evidence for his claims the New York Times @UpshotNYT who rightly points out Georgia's new election law forces "large precincts with long lines to add" machines & staff or split the precinct. That "could be a big win" for state's "urban areas..." But... 5/x
the context from @UpshotNYT is "provisions" of new law "cut in both directions." The next sentence after Kirk's quote: "Cutting in the other direction is the gratuitous and probably ineffectual limitation on handing out food and water..." 6/x https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/upshot/georgia-election-law-turnout.html
Kirk compares Georgia and Delaware as if Biden somehow controls voting in his home state. Delaware is moving in opposite direction of Georgia as lawmakers in former push more voting access 7/x https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/02/delaware-democrats-push-make-easier-vote-gop-support-wanes/4818801001/
Kirk also compares Georgia to Colorado. He even tries to use @Newsweek to do that: "In fact, as Newsweek reported, Colorado has stricter voting laws than Georgia itself. Talk about hypocrisy." But.... 8/x
But the hypocrisy is all Kirk's. It seems he relied on earlier version of Newsweek story with an inaccurate headline. Current version notes: "This headline has been changed and the story updated to clarify that there are nuanced differences between the states' voting laws." 9/x
Kirk calls "shameless" Biden's early error on Georgia's law, misstating limits on voting hours. One expert speculated [like Kirk's mistake] "Biden may have been briefed on an early version of the bill... and he did not get an update on the final..." 10/x https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/30/biden-falsely-claims-new-georgia-law-ends-voting-hours-early/
Kirk lists 4 ID needed to vote in Colorado. His Newsweek link notes that "those critical of Colorado's ID requirement for in-person voting" glide over "the fact that the state accepts a much wider variety of ID..." 11/x https://www.newsweek.com/colorado-site-new-mlb-all-star-game-has-more-restrictive-voting-laws-georgia-1581313
Then there is Kirk on HB 1, #ForThePeople act which to him would rob states "of the ability to run their own elections" and ensure "mass mail-in voting with zero voter ID requirements whatsoever becomes the status quo..." But... 12/x
On latter @PolitiFact: "The bill does not mandate voting by mail, but it aims to make it easier for voters to cast ballots by mail if they wish." And remember Kirk said Colorado - which votes largely by mail - is more secure/restrictive than Georgia. 13/x https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/03/fact-checking-misleading-attacks-hr-1-democrats-vo/
At the end, Kirk continues to spread the big lie through ruse of election integrity: conservatives "should go the whole way and fix all of the issues that made the 2020 election a chaotic national embarrassment." 14/x
Check out my fact checks on Kirk and election issues: 15/x
https://medium.com/@mboedy/debunking-charlie-kirk-on-2020-election-shenanigans-7bac8525aaa5
https://medium.com/@mboedy/debunking-charlie-kirk-on-dominion-voting-software-9f127b15ed45
https://medium.com/@mboedy/debunking-charlie-kirk-on-2020-election-shenanigans-7bac8525aaa5
https://medium.com/@mboedy/debunking-charlie-kirk-on-dominion-voting-software-9f127b15ed45
PS as usual I added this thread to my @Medium post collecting Charlie Kirk threads: /end https://medium.com/@mboedy/twitter-threads-debunking-charlie-kirk-and-turning-point-usa-617473595a7
