ATLANTA – Today, National Review published an article highlighting the efforts of Greater Georgia, and the tremendous re-engagement of conservatives in the May 24th primary. As detailed in the piece, overall turnout in the primary increased by 66% over the last midterm primary, and conservative participation increased an incredible 98% - due largely to the state's new election integrity laws, and Greater Georgia's data-driven efforts to mobilize "disenfranchised" voters who were disillusioned by the 2020 election.

View excerpts from the story below, or read the full piece HERE.

Kelly Loeffler could have spent the last 15 months licking nasty wounds, and who could have blamed her? Her painful U.S. Senate run-off special-election loss to hard-core leftist Democrat Raphael Warnock — paired on the same night with incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue’s run-off defeat to progressive Jon Ossoff — handed control of Congress to the Democrats, hearkening to the Charlie Daniels Band’s tune that the devil may indeed have come down to Georgia. But maybe not to stay.

Loeffler has dedicated the intervening, pouting-free year to building and orchestrating something politically consequential, evident in the results of Georgia’s recent primaries. Launching Greater Georgia last year, Loeffler and her team set about raising funds (a lot her own money) and developing a winning strategy to activate the enormous number of conservative voters — a bloc that clearly had the potential to have flipped the 2021 special-elections’ outcomes — who had become part of that ugly category: the “disenfranchised.”

Specifically, on January 5, 2021, they proved to be non-voters. Last month, they proved reengaged. Why the turnaround?

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If we leave aside the impact and value of Donald Trump’s political influence, we can see that primary Election Day in Georgia proved several things. One is that the Georgia election-reform law accomplished what its supporters pledged — in the face of relentless, high-level, hyperbolic attacks: that it would enhance voting. It did: Turnout was historic. Nearly 1.93 million Georgians voted in the 2022 primary, compared with 1.16 million in 2018. Do the math: That’s a massive, two-thirds increase, and a kiboshing of the Left’s nasty allegations about the law’s intended voter suppression. If there ever was a guy named Jim Crow, he was spinning in his grave on May 24, as confidence in election integrity clearly won the day.

As for party breakdown in the primaries, over 1.2 million Georgians cast Republican ballots, with Democrats registering 724,244 — that was an increase for the GOP of 89 percent from 2018, far outpacing the 30 percent gain experienced by Democrats. The timetable has moved up: Many voters showed they were not waiting for the midterms to possibly reengage. The sweet-and-clear data shows that the road has led back to the ballot box.

Accessing information from absentee- and early-voting turnout, Greater Georgia has run the numbers: Pre–Election Day voting was up 166 percent over 2018, sparked in part by 85,000 Republican-ballot voters who had not participated in any of the state’s previous four primaries. Nearly 22,000 disenfranchised conservatives were also among the early voters. And compared with 2018, GOP voters were up 375 percent among Asians, 281 percent among Blacks, and nearly 400 per cent among Hispanics.

Another thing the primary results proved was the GOP voter renaissance is the result of sweat and smarts. If something’s to blame for the motivation — besides the endless calamities of the Biden presidency, confidence in election integrity sparked by the reform law, and strong primary candidates, such as incumbent Governor Brian Kemp — it’s Greater Georgia. Founded by Loeffler, who showed herself as a determined and engaged chairwoman, the organization embarked on an ambitious, yearlong effort to contact and motivate over 1 million “unregistered, disengaged, and disenfranchised conservatives” via nearly 2 million voter contacts — calls, texts, community events, ads, roundtables, aggressive voter-registration drives, you name it. Going toe to toe with the Democratic ground-game tactics, which strike fear in the hearts of many a Republican operative, Greater Georgia’s sustained mobilization and education efforts and strategy proved consequential, even decisive. The Peach State’s disaffected conservatives seem a lot less disenfranchised.

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And if one may conclude an important lesson to be had from the primary’s outcomes and data, it’s this: The hard work performed by Georgia conservatives, coupled with real election-integrity reform that actually protects and expands voting, show that the province of early voting — rightly a bugaboo of many who find it a permissive opportunity for political shenanigans, and when the value of a vote gets discounted — is no longer the exclusive plaything and monopoly of the Left.

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