The new GA law does more to fix the problem of long lines in GA:According to Georgia law, each voting place can not have more than 2000 voters.... They've ignored their own laws in this, for over a decade, by reducing precincts instead of increasing them with the increase in active registered voters, to where some of these city precincts are averaging 3600 voters in election day....I believe that if a person wanted to vote, there were more than ample opportunities for anyone to vote. It is not the government's job to go door to door to ask how you would like to vote--although that is what absentee voting is. Again, noise.If all those things were in play, including increased absentee voting also early voting, and precincts still had hours of a wait in line to vote in non white neighborhoods,Sorry, I say the whole thing is much ado about nothing. I read your article and just did a simple search and this is what I found. Voting During Covid Vote Early in Person Not only are there multiple voting days to vote in person, an absentee ballot is available to anyone. Any suggestion of disenfranchisement is disingenuous at best.Please,Are you saying White people don't have to stand in line to vote? That they walk to the front of the line? RMEI was wrong on the weather! Heat stroke in November is not likely as you correctly pointed out, but that was not the case in the summer primary Georgia had.... Where they had the 5 hour line wait....hEaT sTrOkE!!They are not there to tell them who to vote for, they already know who they likely are voting for.... They are handing out water, so the voters continue to stay another 3 hours in line, without passing out from heat stroke, or giving up and leaving because they can't take the heat and wait.I suppose anyone bringing a bottle of water and a power bar would solve every problem.The poll workers are inside.... The water fountains are inside. How does that help the people in the mile long line?I have no idea...but these laws blew up around the country after a ruling in Ellis v. Meeks,Seriously?Handing a thirsty man a bottle of water is not buying votes
how would you know??
if a trump supporter is going up and down a long line and handing our anything of value it could lead to a person voting in their favor,,
You think a determined to vote Democrat standing in line for 5 HOURS to cast their gosh darn vote, is going to change their vote to some Republican candidate because a kind republican person gave them water or food????
Nope!
The whole purpose by republicans to not give them water or food is so that the voters in these very long lined Democratic district voting precincts will give up and go home... And people coming to vote see the long line and just pass on voting...
dear Lord y'all are messed up people...
You should be FURIOUS that lawmakers etc, MADE THE CITIZENS STAND IN LINE FOR 5 HOURS just to cast their vote, while pearly white voting precincts have a 30 minute wait at most, to cast their votes...?
WHY IS IT TAKING 5 to 9 HOURS IN LINE TO VOTE in Democratic districts?.....
That's the fraud.... Through disenfranchisement.
In 1998, the Supreme Court of Kentucky, in Ellis v. Meeks, threw out the results of a primary election where the winner, Meeks (who prevailed by eight votes) had handed out free food at the polling place, and made it available to voters. The court rejected the argument that this was all harmless because there was no direct evidence that he had changed any votes or had demanded any explicit quid pro quo from voters:
If you are really concerned about the GA citizens in line getting water, then you are free to donate it....give it to the poll workers, and they will make it available to the folks to get.
That case, was the candidate himself, no?
Candidates should not be allowed to do what that candidate did....
They are not allowed to campaign at a polling place....nor should the people offering water or food in hours waiting voter lines..... Keep them from campaigning but not giving out water....
Better yet, there should be no situation, where it takes more than one hour in line, to vote..... Where is that legislation forcing state precincts to be fair and equal for all citizens in all voting districts?
But then democrats would have no cause to work the lines handing out free goods to people likely to vote their way.
The whole Purpose of the long lines in Democratic voting places and smooth sailing in Republican districts...
To get the Democratic voter to just leave after a few hours of waiting, and to discourage other voters from voting due to the long lines.
you don't know your Republican party leaders/cheaters very well....
Historical average temps the first week in November in Atlanta: 67 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
And, hey, you know who runs elections in Democrat districts?
Democrats.
You're angry at the wrong people.
The problem is the State of Georgia has cut voting precincts by 10% after the supreme court eliminated a civil rights voting act law that protected blacks from discrimination in Georgia....
while the active registered voters have increased by 40%....And the increased voters are primarily black and from the cities who have the very long lines....get a 10% cut in voting places.
this link is very informative, if you really want to know or care about what Georgia's Republican legislature and the Secretary of State, then Kent, did to disenfranchise the black voter....read it.
Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have To Wait In Line For Hours? Too Few Polling Places
The state's voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost 10%.www.npr.org
read the article I linked to, on average the white voter only waits 8 minutes.
then that only shows, it's worse than I thought.... What would it have been like without all the absentee voters, if they showed up in person?
Read the article, again.....
The legislature of one party, should not be able to F with the voters (they don't like) that way..... It's just plain wrong, and even you...should be against it.
And things the Rs have done in Georgia had democrats on the red alert back in 2016, so that's why this new bill is being chewed up and spit out by them, with accusations of racism....
I think it's just evil and a form of cheating in daylight....
I'm not certain if it is merely racism, if at all ....
I'm cynical enough and dismayed with Georgia republicans.... Enough so, that I believe if these were not black democratic voting city dwellers, and we werere all white Democratic leaning voters, the Georgia republicans would likely do the same things to us white folk, to disenfranchise or discourage us from voting with long lines....
If, at the previous general election, a precinct contained more than 2,000 electors and if [voters] desiring to vote on the day of the election had to wait in line for more than one hour before checking in to vote, the superintendent shall either reduce the size of such precinct so that it shall contain not more than 2,000 electors…or provide additional voting equipment or poll workers, or both, before the next general election….The chief manager of a precinct which contained more than 2,000 electors at the previous general election shall submit a report thereof to the superintendent of the reported time from entering the line to checking in to vote. Such wait time shall be measured no fewer than three different times throughout the day (in the morning, at midday, and prior to the close of polls) and such results shall be recorded on a form provided by the Secretary of State.
