Can we boycott Georgia?

[Anonymous]

The Georgia law and laws crafted for other states set up a scenario where a gerrymandered state legislature can just assign electoral votes to whomever it wishes, irrespective of the vote in their state.

Is that what we really want?

[Anonymous]

Maybe we should create “racist island” where all these would be ignorant plantation owners can go. Then the rest of us who are normal can inhabit the rest of the country and let the racist island people ruin each other.

I am hopeful these old white men will die off but also worried they are being replaced with more stupid and ignorant people who are beholden to whatever Fox News tells them.

[Anonymous]

Is there something that prevents polling places that saw extreme lines from obtaining more machines and poll workers in the next election cycle?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If EVERYBODY in line is offered food and water; ie not singling out one side or another, then there is no partisan offering in exchange for a vote.

People do not need to be given food and water as they wait to vote.

Make the voting easy and accessible so the lines are short enough for people not to need food and water. Duh. If that’s what they are really concerned about. But they just don’t want people to vote. Making it hard and arduous.

PP here. Except for those with obvious disabilities and infirmaties, people are fine.

In that case food and water wouldn’t sway them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there something that prevents polling places that saw extreme lines from obtaining more machines and poll workers in the next election cycle?

Yes. It’s called the same board of elections that caused the problem in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there something that prevents polling places that saw extreme lines from obtaining more machines and poll workers in the next election cycle?

Yes. The GOP election officials who inflict this on them.

This bill claims to rectify it, but with no real teeth to ensure it would happen for the primaries in 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If EVERYBODY in line is offered food and water; ie not singling out one side or another, then there is no partisan offering in exchange for a vote.

People do not need to be given food and water as they wait to vote.

Make the voting easy and accessible so the lines are short enough for people not to need food and water. Duh. If that’s what they are really concerned about. But they just don’t want people to vote. Making it hard and arduous.

PP here. Except for those with obvious disabilities and infirmaties, people are fine.

In that case food and water wouldn’t sway them.

Stacey Abrams must be allowed to cater the voter lines. no excuses!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there something that prevents polling places that saw extreme lines from obtaining more machines and poll workers in the next election cycle?

Is your google broken?
Or your ability to click on links that were on the previous page?

Secretary Raffensperger has worked with legislative partners to propose new legislation that will, first and foremost, take a hatchet to long lines before the ballot box. The new bill will require counties to track wait times and take action if voters have to wait more than an hour to cast their ballot. The counties will measure the wait times at least three times on election day and report those times back to the Secretary of State. If the wait time is longer than one hour, county election officials will be advised to split the precinct, provide more voting equipment, or hire additional poll workers for the next election. In conjunction with added flexibility in how local election officials can allocate equipment, the new policies will provide Georgian voters with the comfort that something is being done about frustrating long lines on election day.

https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/secretary_of_state_brad_raffensperger_takes_legislative_hatchet_to_long_voter_lines


And, this....

Many of the measures in SB 202 will streamline the election administration process at the local level, such as allowing officials to process absentee ballots sooner, require them to count ballots nonstop once the polls close and allow flexibility with voting equipment for smaller, lower-turnout races. Poll workers could serve in neighboring counties, after the pandemic saw a shortage of trained workers.

Precincts with more than 2,000 voters that have lines longer than an hour at three different points throughout the day have to add more machines, add more staff or split up the poll.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/981357583/georgia-legislature-approves-election-overhaul-including-changes-to-absentee-vot

[Anonymous]

We can boycott Home Depot and Coca Cola.
Screw major corporations who allowed this to happen in Georgia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can boycott Home Depot and Coca Cola.
Screw major corporations who allowed this to happen in Georgia.

Yeah, that will show ‘em!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can boycott Home Depot and Coca Cola.
Screw major corporations who allowed this to happen in Georgia.

What to happen?

You all are getting your knickers in a bunch about nothing. A few on the left - in politics and in media - have caused this outrage and you have to wonder if any of them actually read the bill.
The worst you have come up with is that people cannot pass out water in line and even that argument has had cold water thrown on it (pun intended).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can boycott Home Depot and Coca Cola.
Screw major corporations who allowed this to happen in Georgia.

What to happen?

You all are getting your knickers in a bunch about nothing. A few on the left - in politics and in media - have caused this outrage and you have to wonder if any of them actually read the bill.
The worst you have come up with is that people cannot pass out water in line and even that argument has had cold water thrown on it (pun intended).

No. The worst thing about it is the ability of the legislature to overthrow the results if they dont like them.

The banning pizza and water thing is just dickish, petty, and has no good reason

[Jennae]

I don't see why not. Plenty of other major organizations are and financial repercussions are the only way to get the message across in situations like this. It sounds like a lot of industries are doing just that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can boycott Home Depot and Coca Cola.
Screw major corporations who allowed this to happen in Georgia.

What to happen?

You all are getting your knickers in a bunch about nothing. A few on the left - in politics and in media - have caused this outrage and you have to wonder if any of them actually read the bill.
The worst you have come up with is that people cannot pass out water in line and even that argument has had cold water thrown on it (pun intended).

No. The worst thing about it is the ability of the legislature to overthrow the results if they dont like them.

The banning pizza and water thing is just dickish, petty, and has no good reason

You'll need to link to that in the bill because I am not seeing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can boycott Home Depot and Coca Cola.
Screw major corporations who allowed this to happen in Georgia.

What to happen?

You all are getting your knickers in a bunch about nothing. A few on the left - in politics and in media - have caused this outrage and you have to wonder if any of them actually read the bill.
The worst you have come up with is that people cannot pass out water in line and even that argument has had cold water thrown on it (pun intended).

No. The worst thing about it is the ability of the legislature to overthrow the results if they dont like them.

The banning pizza and water thing is just dickish, petty, and has no good reason

You'll need to link to that in the bill because I am not seeing it.

That's what the whole getting rid of the independence of the certifiers does