This is both sad and funny...

"What they (Republican Georgia Legislatures) will say in response is that it doesn't say that in the law."

 

  "what's on the paper is just the precursor to what happens in reality"

So to be clear here, Stacy Abrams is decrying a law, admittedly not for what it actually states, but is decrying a law based on what she apparently believes that it might mean. Make no mistake, nothing she actually suggests here (or what Lawrence O'Donnell suggests) in the four minute video is actually part of the law. They are quite literally coming up with their own horror story about a law completely different from the one passed in Georgia. 

People will not be waiting in line for seven hours without water. There is nothing in the law that allows the legislatures to "change" the results of the counts. There is nothing within the law that prevents election lawsuits. This is all nonsense, and it is now what has been determined to be journalism in 2021. You quite literally interview someone, let them make shit up about a law, while downplaying the obvious disclaimer that the shit they are making up is not in the law. Complete with a chuckle, suggesting that the fact it is not in the law is obviously irrelevant to the argument (when of course it's the only relative issue at hand). 

Moreover, where on earth did these people get the impression that somehow the legislature is overstepping boundaries or otherwise is meddling. The constitution provides 100% control over elections to the legislature. The power to decide how people vote, how those votes are counted, and pretty much everything about elections are 100% within the hands of the legislature. There is zero constitutional argument that unelected local election workers get to decide ANYTHING. They are there to follow the law. Nothing more, nothing less. They can be the most dedicated hard working people in the world, but they still don't get to do anything other than what the law tells them to do. 

But this is what it has openly come to here folks. Abrams and others do not like the Georgia election law so they quite literally attack it with open falsehoods. She literally tells you that what she is saying isn't actually factual. She literally openly admits that all of her criticism  regarding the law are of things that are not literally in the law. But apparently she believes by hiding this truth in plain sight, that she can get away with it. Obviously this sort of fantasy has a place at MSNBC!