Georgia Antivoting Law
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Horrible the free water venders have to stay 151 feet from voting place, there has been added 1 Saturday and potentially 2 Sundays of early voting. and just like almost 80% of blacks want, you have to show an ID to vote.
Republicans realizing the only way to bring back Jim Crow laws and limit the people from voting is to try to change the law forcibly.
You do realize that the new law in Georgia is going to INCREASE voting access, not restrict it, right?
For example, were you aware of the part of the bill that requires polls with lines of an hour or more to hire more workers to reduce waiting times?
Yeah, urban areas with 1 machine just need more poll workers. That's going to solve it.
Georgia Republicans trying their best to turn their State into Mississippi
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Time to move every professional team out of Georgia. Get rid of the Masters too. Move UGA to Saker Liner.
I dont think the SEC would have anywhere to go, unless they just moved championships out of SEC territory, which I dont see happening.
Yeah the SEC doesn’t have a good history on things like this. They didn’t start allowing African American players till Southern Cal came to Tuscaloosa and embarrassed a Bear Bryant coached team
UCF didn't have a black football player until 1979.
The same thing with UK basketball. Adolph Rupp didnt recruit black players until they were beaten by a mostly black Texas Western team in the championship. But even besides that, if the SEC were to move the championship game out of Georgia, just not sure where they would go. Nashville, New Orleans, or Tampa would make the most sense, but Tennessee's state legislature is nuts, and doesnt Florida have a similar bill on the table?
That was like over 50 years ago. I'd say things have changed just slightly for the SEC.
was a response to them moving their Conference Championship game out of Atlanta , the whole conference are in States run by like minded people
Exactly. Move it to a progressive northern city like NYC. Or maybe even Minneapolis.
That’s what you call a straw man. Unless you can tell me which urban area only has 1 machine.
It will. The Democrats and media have shamelessly lied about this bill and their version of what’s happening has taken hold and fired up the Democratic base.
Ironically, Democrats will flood to the polls without any issue and sweep Kemp out of office, and Georgia will be blue for the foreseeable future.
Pretty amazing that they’ll still feel like they were right even after the law doesn’t stop anyone from voting legally.
Unironically, this bill mandates more machines be purchased in the districts with high minority populations.
Kemps campaign message really needs to be something along the lines of "when you go to the polls and see how much easier it is to vote against me, ask yourself why you are voting against me."
Non Partisan Election nerd Weiserman thinks Georgia will go the way of Virginia in a few cycles
It won’t take a few cycles. Stacy Abrams will be governor in a few years and will make both voting and fraud comically easy to do.
Not making any predictions about whether fraud will occur, but it will be easy.
Polling places that have more than an hour wait can't fix it with more humans. People don't vote with workers
Should be easier and faster to get a license, but that's not the case either.
It's the government. It lacks all efficiency possible.
Remember when Trump started voter fraud commission in 2017 that found no fraud? How about when Trump's DOJ that found no fraud after 2020 election?
I can get my hunting or fishing licenses via an app from the state of FL. I have always advocated for voting on your phone but recognize the potential security risks involved. However, there are many people who do banking, investing, and whatnot via their phone and it's perfectly fine/safe/secure.
I am not sure how to reckon through this in the future. I completely understand the ramifications of not voting in person and those who feel like it's a dubious process. But let's be clear--there are many of these same people who trust decisions in their lives--extremely important ones at that--to online devices that could be subject to nefarious consequences, and they don't bat an eye. Where this goes moving forward is anyone's guess, but I think that there has to be some ground for compromise.
You drunk bro? Thats probably the deepest post I think you've ever made, lol.
I'm on the same page here. We can see all of these processes we do on a daily basis like online banking and setting up utility accounts or investment transactions and it seems ridiculous that those are secure enough but voting somehow wouldn't be. On the flip side, something like a digital voting platform would have to be administered by someone in power, and power corrupts. Ultimately I guess I keep coming back to the position of "the system we have in place is actually pretty good". Obviously there are things that can be tweaked to make it more convenient to vote and still give people a sense of security in knowing that their vote was legitimately part of the process. I really do think that the Georgia law is a good step in the right direction, but I guess to some people it's the equivalent of a modern day lynching.
I just want the news to tell me who the best candidate is by ignoring the ones who don’t already have deep ties to DC and give me just two choices for the most powerful position in the country. Bonus points if those choices are a colorful pseudo-rapist/reality star and a geriatric puppet with no backbone that was rejected for the position twice before.
Basically, I’m saying the game is rigged well before we hit the voting booths. We might as well make voting for president the same as voting for American Idol, they both give you that delightful impending doom feeing and the realization that the show is masking a dark unavoidable reality.
You’re cool though, Joe. Your point about security tracks. My entire life is floating around somewhere in zeros and ones, well beyond my control.
Obviously in an ideal world we could vote extremely easily, and everyone would have their say without expending any effort.
But the reason we can do online banking is because the app I have on my phone for SunTrust has detailed records I can check at any time and be assured that nothing has been taken from my account illegally.
It’s about confidence that my banking is being done properly. An online system for banking can perform its function and provide that confidence.
But online voting? Voting where people don’t have to prove their identity or eligibility? Safeguards to prevent people from voting more than once aren’t in place? Well... now people start to lose confidence in whether or not the process they just participated in was done properly.
If people can see an easy way to cheat, they won’t trust the outcome even if they won’t cheat themselves. Then no matter what, you have a serious problem for democracy: if cheating occurs, that’s a problem; if no cheating occurs but people don’t trust the outcome because cheating was too easy, that’s still a problem.
Banking, yes. Voting, no. That's what I always hear from folks. If it's good enough for our hard-earned money, it's good enough for us to use our fat little fingers to click for whichever recycled loon that the Republicans and Democrats have once again shat out...
Did you even read my post?
Would you do online banking with a bank that didn’t let you see your transaction history or send you any kind of statement?
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