Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie on Sunday called Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams for praising an in-person voting law that offers fewer in-person voting days before the elections than a Georgia measure that President Biden compared it to Jim Crow’s laws.
The New Jersey bill was signed last week by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy, while the Georgia bill became law with Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s signature on March 25.
“Stacey Abrams was in New Jersey, in my state, praising Phil Murphy this week for a voting law in which New Jersey’s early vote is nine days – half what Georgia’s is,” Christie said during an appearance on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“Still, she’s on TV in New Jersey – I saw it myself – saying that this is one of the biggest electoral expansion projects we’ve ever seen,” said Christie.
New Jersey law allows for nine days of early voting in person at a limited number of polling places, starting on the tenth day before an election and ending on the Sunday before election day.
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Georgia’s new voting law provides for a minimum of 17 days of personal early voting and a maximum of nineteen days, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Abrams, who waged a failed governor campaign against Kemp in 2018, made a virtual appearance with Murphy on Tuesday, the day he signed off on the voting project. She praised the state for “leading the way for automatic voter registration”.
Abrams praised the benefits of early voting in person.
“I’m very excited to be looking up, looking at New Jersey, knowing that New Jersey is taking us in the right direction,” she said.
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“To Governor Murphy, the state legislature, the Secretary of State and all the allies who made this possible, my most sincere congratulations, but you have my gratitude because you are showing the way for a better democracy and a better future for all of us. “
“While it is difficult for some people to understand, leaders in states that expand rights should be praised, and leaders in states that restrict rights should not be praised,” said Seth Bringman, spokesman for Fair Fight Action, a rights group. vote cast by Abrams in 2018.
“I missed the part of the New Jersey bill that criminalized handing over a bottle of water to a voter,” he said. “We are excited that Republicans now believe that access to democracy should not depend on the state in which Americans live, so we look forward to your support for the People’s Law and the John Lewis Advance Voting Rights Act.”