Apparently believing the untruths of Democrats and self-appointed liberal voting rights activists about the law, Mr. Manfred defended the Atlanta pullout as “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport.”
It’s obvious that he didn’t bother to educate himself independently as to what Georgia’s new election-integrity law actually does — and doesn’t do — before buying into what an understandably angry Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rightly calls the “fear, political opportunism and liberal lies” about it.
If Mr. Manfred had reached out to Mr. Kemp first, he’d know the law doesn’t disenfranchise Blacks — or anyone else. To the contrary, it makes it “easy to vote, but hard to cheat,” the governor says.