On Monday, almost 150 leaders of the conservative movement, including ATA President and
CEO Kathleen Patten and CHQ Editor George Rasley, released a letter of support for Georgia’s new election integrity legislation.
Pushing back on the false narrative that the bill is intended to suppress the votes of minorities, the letter says, “…Georgia’s law has unfairly come under attack with spurious claims that it is intended to suppress votes, or make it more difficult for Georgia residents to participate in voting. Such misinformation has come from sources as high up as President Joe Biden,” it also expresses the Conservative Action Project’s support for the leaders who brought the bill through to passage.
April 5, 2021
Washington, DC
Conservatives applaud the Georgia legislature and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp for taking bold steps to protect the integrity of its elections, and the rights of all voters to participate.
The law implements reasonable and common-sense protocols like requiring ID for mail-in ballots, halting the acceptance of absentee ballots within 11 days of an election, and prohibiting third-parties from providing gifts to voters waiting in line at a polling place.
However, Georgia’s law has unfairly come under attack with spurious claims that it is intended to suppress votes, or make it more difficult for Georgia residents to participate in voting. Such misinformation has come from sources as high up as President Joe Biden.
Biden claimed the Georgia law both “ends voting hours early so working people can’t cast their vote after their shift if over.” This claims is so wildly untrue and without evidence that even the Washington Post was forced to give it four Pinocchios.
The law expands early voting access while adding mandatory Saturday voting as well as an option to vote on Sundays. Moreover, a number of election officials cite the expanded voting hours, which will allow more people to get to the polls, and additional latitude for the state to require more polling places or voting machines if voters face overcrowding or lines. Georgia voters will also still be able to request mail-in ballots for convenience.
Reasonable measures to protect the integrity of each vote – and to ensure expanded avenues for participation in elections – are definitionally not suppression. We reject those categorizations, like we reject efforts by Major League Baseball, the PGA Tour, Hollywood, and Delta Airlines to bully the state legislature to undo their reforms.
In America, the people rule; not woke corporate power, and not special interests. Voting in America, and confidence that the process is transparent, accessible, and fair, is foundational to representative self-government. We support efforts, like the one in Georgia, to stand up for those principles.
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The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
Alfred S. Regnery
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
President, Republic Book Publishers
Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
Mary Vought
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
President and CEO, First Liberty Institute
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
L. Brent Bozell, III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
The Honorable Matt Schlapp
Chairman
American Conservative Union (ACU)
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
The Honorable Donald Paul Hodel
U.S. Secretary of Energy (1982-1985)
U.S. Secretary of Interior (1985-1989)
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
The Honorable Russ Vought
Director, Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)
Dr. Frank Wright
CEO
D. James Kennedy Ministries
The Honorable Scott Walker
President
Young America's Foundation
Linda L. Bean
Founder
Bean Maine Lobster, Inc.
Justin Danhof
General Counsel, National Center for Public Policy Research
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Jon Schweppe
Director of Policy and Government Affairs, American Principles Project
Karen England
Executive Director
Capitol Resource Institute
Ron Pearson
Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund
J. Christian Adams
President
Public Interest Legal Foundation
Robert Alt
President & CEO
The Buckeye Institute
The Honorable Stephen Stockman
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Texas
Rob Chambers
Vice President
AFA Action
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Robert Keith Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith
The Honorable Diana Denman
Chairman/ President
The Reagan Legacy Forum
Rebecca Hagelin
CEO
United in Purpose
C. Preston Noell III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Dr. Allen Unruh
Founder
National Abstinence Clearinghouse
Donald L. Woodsmall
Principal
Arromid, LLC
Saulius “Saul” Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property
Paavo Ensio
Chairman
Universal Minerals Group
Dr. Richard W. Scarborough
President
Recover America Now
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Sean Noble
President
American Encore
Ralph A. Rebandt, II
Lead Pastor
Oakland Hills Community Church
David Haas
I Support the One Person One Vote Law
Citizen of State of Ohio
Chad Connelly
President
Faith Wins
Khadine Ritter
Chairman
Eagle Forum of Ohio
Mat Staver
Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action
Amapola Hansberger
Founder and President
Legal Immigrants for America
Barry Meguiar
President
IgniteAmerica
Penna Dexter
Co-host
Point of View Radio
Anne Schlafly Cori
Chairman
Eagle Forum
Glenn Story
Co-founder
Patriot Mobile
Lady Brigitte Gabriel
Founder & Chairman
ACT For America
Dr. Teryn B. Clarke
Neurologist
Clarke Neurology
Kathleen Patten
President & CEO
American Target Advertising, Inc.
Rod Vandenbos
CEO
VHI
Senator Jason Rapert
Founder & President, National Association of Christian Lawmakers
Tim LeFever
Chairman
Capitol Resource Institute
Peggy Dau
Representative
IranAliveMinistries
Steve Berger
CEO/Pres.
Ambassador Services Int’l
Nancy Schulze
Founder, President
RCW Speakers
Robert D. Thompson
Administrator
The Weyrich Lunch (1999-2016)
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman
Constitutional Congress, Inc.
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
Marjorie Dannenfelser
President
Susan B. Anthony List
William L. Walton
President
Council for National Policy
Thomas Fitton
President
Judicial Watch, Inc.
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Penny Y. Nance
President & CEO
Concerned Women for America
The Honorable David McIntosh
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Indiana
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson
President (2013-2019)
National Religious Broadcasters
The Honorable Ken Cuccinelli II
Chairman
Election Transparency Initiative
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
The Honorable James C. Miller III
Budget Director for President Reagan, 1985-1988
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Terry Schilling
President
American Principles Project
Mike Davis
Founder and President
Article III Project (A3P)
Marc Little
Executive Director
CURE America Action
William W. Pascoe, III
Board Member
Tea Party Patriots Action
Reverend Frank Pavone
National Director
Priests for Life
Ambassador Henry F. Cooper
Ronald Reagan's Chief Defense and Space Negotiator and Former SDI Director
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer
Presidential Historian
Kielle C. Horton
President
The Lindsey Foundation
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
Eric Georgatos
Executive Producer
America Can We Talk?
Marcia Taylor
CEO
Bennett International Group, Inc.
Dr. Paige Patterson
President
Sandy Creek Foundation
Sheryl Kaufman
Board Member
Americans for Limited Government
Gary Marx
President
The Concord Fund
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
The Honorable Mike Hill
Former Member
Florida State House
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
Dr. Richard Rounsavelle
Trustee
MRC
Wade Kirby
Director of Development
GSWA
Mark Bloom
Business Owner
Ole Podner LLC
Lori Roman
President, American Constitutional Rights Union Action
Art Ally
President
Timothy Partners, Ltd.
Andresen Blom
President
Hawaiian Values
Terrence Scanlon
Retired Chairman and President 1994-2016, Capital Research Center
Randy M. Long
Founder
Long Business Advisors, LLC
Richard D. Hayes
Partner
Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP
Mark Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising
E.C. Sykes
General Partner
Aslan Ventures
Trent England
Executive Director
Save Our States
Joel Anand Samy
Co-Host, America's Roundtable Radio
Co-Founder, International Leaders Summit
Martha Boneta
President
Vote America First
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Paul Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation
Debbie Georgatos
Host, America Can We Talk?
CWT Publications, LLC
Allen Roth
President
Secure America Now
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
William Shaker
CEO
Washington Marketing Group
Dr. Virginia Armstrong
National Court Watch Chairman
Eagle Forum
Heather R. Higgins
CEO
Independent Women's Voice
Georgia voter law
Georgia elections integrity law
Atlanta
Joe Biden
Gov. Greg Abbott
Neil Liebman
Chuck Schumer
New York election law
Absentee balloting
Brian Kemp
expanded voting hours
Major League baseball
Coca Cola
Delta Airlines
PGA Tour