At a a recent meeting of my local democratic organization, the Democratic member of the Georgia Board of Elections talked about the operations of that Board and, most especially, about the voter ID laws passed in the legislature and approved by the courts.
The first thing to know is that there have been no instances of voter fraud in Georgia. Okay. That's clear enough. No instances. But the Republican controlled legislature passed a contentious photo ID law nevertheless.
The second thing to know is that Georgia is experiencing a drought. One of the states largest nursery companies recently declared bankruptcy due to a fall in sales.
The state legislature and state agencies have done, effectively, nothing to prevent or abate the drought and its impacts. Except that the Governor has held a prayer meeting to ask God to make it rain.
We have no rain and no voter fraud.
I think the Governor got the order of actions wrong in dealing with these two issues: we ought to be taking legislative and agency actions to alleviate the drought and we ought to be praying that nobody commits voter fraud.
Government action will be helpful in dealing with the drought and the prayer will be self-fulfilling prophesy.