Can we boycott Georgia?

[Anonymous]

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They bowed to the mob. Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.

When Republicans are held accountable for their actions, all they can do is bleat about cancel culture. Constituents of the party that once stood for personal responsibility - facing the consequences for the actions one takes - have devolved into a bunch of whiners. How incredibly pathetic.

Actions? What actions?

Extending voting times? Codifying the use of ballot drop boxes?
Please be specific about the "actions" to which you are referring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They bowed to the mob. Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.

I think Republicans don't actually know what a mob looks like. I saw no mob at any baseball stadium today.

However, I DID see a mob attack our capitol in January.

Oh, honey. The social media mob has become just as dangerous as a physical mob.
But, you knew that.

Yep, I saw thousands of Trump and OANN followers on Twitter constantly doxxing innocent people causing injury and harassment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They bowed to the mob. Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.

When Republicans are held accountable for their actions, all they can do is bleat about cancel culture. Constituents of the party that once stood for personal responsibility - facing the consequences for the actions one takes - have devolved into a bunch of whiners. How incredibly pathetic.

Actions? What actions?

Extending voting times? Codifying the use of ballot drop boxes?
Please be specific about the "actions" to which you are referring.

You conveniently ignore the objectionable parts of the bill. Please don't be selective here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They bowed to the mob. Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.

When Republicans are held accountable for their actions, all they can do is bleat about cancel culture. Constituents of the party that once stood for personal responsibility - facing the consequences for the actions one takes - have devolved into a bunch of whiners. How incredibly pathetic.

Actions? What actions?

Extending voting times? Codifying the use of ballot drop boxes?
Please be specific about the "actions" to which you are referring.

You conveniently ignore the objectionable parts of the bill. Please don't be selective here.

Tell us about those then. Please, elaborate.

[Anonymous]

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.

They do when the party in power decides to make things as difficult as possible for their political opponents to exercise their right to vote. The Republican government and boards of elections tried to make things more difficult. They reduced the number of voting stations in heavily populated, predominantly black parts of the state. Thus funneling more voters to fewer polling stations. They decreased the number of voting machines available at those largely oversubscribed voting stations and ended up with lines that took up to 6 hours in some places to wind down. This discouraged many who after 3-4 hours of waiting, had to leave the line to vote to get something to eat and drink and use the facilities. So volunteers started bringing pizza and water to the polling stations to keep people in lines. In the case of many, they left and by the time they returned the polling station had closed and they were no longer allowed to return to the line. So they were disenfranchised by the inhumane political machinations.

Note that these changes to the election process were most prevalent in minority heavy and Democratic areas, like many of the suburbs of Atlanta (like Fulton county).

Note that the Republicans are not trying to increase the number of polling stations or increase the number of voting booths that are given to these heavily populated areas, they are trying to cut down on people providing food and drink to the voters that may still have to wait in line 4-6 hours to vote. They are actively trying to discourage predominantly Democratic voters (the areas that vote 70-90% Democratic depending on the contest).

And the other changes to the election law are designed to ensure that they can put in place election boards or commissioners who will not increase the number of polling places or voting booths available in the heavily populated Atlanta suburbs.

The fact that you respond the way that you do, means that you support the Republicans efforts to disenfranchise the heavily minority voters in the affected counties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They bowed to the mob. Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.

No. They listened to their players, managers, staff and workers and arrived at a decision that they felt was in the best interest of the sport.

Baseball is as American as apple pie, right?

So is voting.

If the GOP doesn't feel they want to fully enfranchise its citizens in the state of Georgia, then business, including baseball, can make a decision in their own interests.

The GA GOP is doing this to themselves and to their state. If they want a different result, then they need to take different actions.

Remember capitalism? That is voting with dollars.

Coke, Delta, Weyerhauser, Home Depot and other large businesses including the film production industry are going to have to make some very hard decisions in the coming weeks and months in terms of how they will respond to this action.

We don't need another Jim Crow era and the way to nip it in the bud is for big business to stand with their customers.

How about the original cancel culture, the GOP cancelling the easy right of Georgia residents to vote. Take responsibility for your actions and stop blaming some nefarious mob.

No, they didn't.

I'm not surprised the franchise hosting the game is miffed by the decision, but to say that players, managers, staff and ownership were not involved in the decision is a damned lie: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/mlb-all-star-game-moved.html

The Braves should focus their indignation toward the craven Republican politicians who (probably correctly) felt that they only way they would remain competitive in elections would be to place restrictions on peoples' ability to vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They bowed to the mob. Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.

When Republicans are held accountable for their actions, all they can do is bleat about cancel culture. Constituents of the party that once stood for personal responsibility - facing the consequences for the actions one takes - have devolved into a bunch of whiners. How incredibly pathetic.

Actions? What actions?

Extending voting times? Codifying the use of ballot drop boxes?
Please be specific about the "actions" to which you are referring.

You conveniently ignore the objectionable parts of the bill. Please don't be selective here.

Tell us about those then. Please, elaborate.

Voters will have less time to request absentee ballots, there are strict new ID requirements for absentee ballots, election officials cannot mail out absentee ballot applications to all voters, fewer drop boxes are allowed in future elections than in 2020, offering food or water to people waiting in line to vote is now illegal, the legislature has more control over the election board, mobile voting centers are banned, among many others.

Georgia's election was secure and fair. The only reason for these changes is to suppress the vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I certainly will avoid traveling there or doing business there. Simply, anti-American.

Who cares what you think...

[Anonymous]

As a next step, we need to pull all national broadcasts of their professional and college sports teams. Conservatives only listen when it hits them in their wallets. Love it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They bowed to the mob. Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.

When Republicans are held accountable for their actions, all they can do is bleat about cancel culture. Constituents of the party that once stood for personal responsibility - facing the consequences for the actions one takes - have devolved into a bunch of whiners. How incredibly pathetic.

Actions? What actions?

Extending voting times? Codifying the use of ballot drop boxes?
Please be specific about the "actions" to which you are referring.

You conveniently ignore the objectionable parts of the bill. Please don't be selective here.

Tell us about those then. Please, elaborate.

Voters will have less time to request absentee ballots, there are strict new ID requirements for absentee ballots, election officials cannot mail out absentee ballot applications to all voters, fewer drop boxes are allowed in future elections than in 2020, offering food or water to people waiting in line to vote is now illegal, the legislature has more control over the election board, mobile voting centers are banned, among many others.

Georgia's election was secure and fair. The only reason for these changes is to suppress the vote.

Less time to request absentee ballots: They have 11 weeks to do so. Ample time.

"Strict" ID requirements which are not exactly strict:

Requesting and returning a ballot will also require new ID rules: either your driver's license number, state ID number or, if you don't have those, a copy of acceptable voter ID. The law also allows for applications to be returned online, after the Secretary of State's office launched an online request portal using your driver's license number or state ID number ahead of November's general election
Poll workers will use that information, plus your name, date of birth and address, to verify your identity, and you will sign an oath swearing that everything is correct. This is a change from recent procedure that would check your signature on the application with those on file.

Once you fill out your choices by filling in the circles for your choices, you will place it in an envelope that will have your name, signature, driver's license or state ID number (or last four digits of your Social Security number) and date of birth. The envelope will be designed so that sensitive personal information will be hidden once it is sealed.

https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/state/2021/03/28/new-georgia-voting-law-what-does-sb-202-change-elections/7038406002/

You are right. Election officials cannot mail out ballots to everyone. This is not exclusive to GA, at all. Pre-pandemic, only 9 states sent ballots unsolicited. Pandemic rules changed in some states. Just because it was done during the pandemic, doesn't mean it need continue. GA did NOT send out unsolicited ballots prior to the pandemic. Wasn't a problem then.
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/voting-by-mail-9-states-send-ballots-automatically-35-allow-covid-19-as-an-excuse-6-require-other-reason

Fewer drop boxes: Nope. Not everywhere. In some districts, there were no drop boxes. This law simply codifies the use of drop boxes which were not used pre-pandemic.

The new law requires each Georgia county to have a minimum of one drop box for absentee ballots. In 2020, when drop boxes were used for the first time in Georgia, the boxes were authorized by special pandemic-related rules rather than by long-term legislation.
However, the new law also limits how many drop boxes each county can have, how many hours and days the boxes can be open, and where they can be located.In addition, the law says that drop boxes need to be located at elections offices or inside early voting locations. And it says the boxes can only be available during the hours that early voting is available.
The law says that each county can't have more than one drop box per early voting site or per 100,000 active registered voters, whichever number is smaller.

https://www.wicz.com/story/43582673/fact-check-what-the-new-georgia-elections-law-actually-does

Offering food or water to people waiting in line to vote is now illegal: This is the lamest complaint out there.

The law makes it a misdemeanor to give away food or water within 150 feet of the outer edge of a polling place building or within 25 feet of any voter in line. While people other than poll workers can give away food or water, they have to adhere to these boundaries to avoid breaking the law. The bill also states that poll workers can make available "self-service water from an unattended receptacle to an elector waiting in line to vote."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/josh-holmes/facts-about-georgias-ban-food-water-giveaways-vote/

the legislature has more control over the election board: It's not as simple as that.
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he new law removes the Georgia secretary of state as the chair of the state elections board. Instead, the law lets the state legislature appoint a "nonpartisan" chair of the board. And under the new law, if a majority of the five-member board decides that a county's elections officials have been doing their job poorly, the board can suspend those officials and replace them with one person the board has hand-picked to serve as a temporary superintendent, with the same powers the officials had.

The new law allows the state board to sideline elections officials in up to four counties at a time. A majority of the board would have to decide that the officials demonstrated "nonfeasance, malfeasance, or gross negligence" in at least two elections over a two-year period, or that the county officials committed at least three violations of election law or board regulations in the last two general election cycles and had not "sufficiently remedied" these violations.

https://www.wicz.com/story/43582673/fact-check-what-the-new-georgia-elections-law-actually-does

mobile voting centers are banned: These were a result of the pandemic. There is no reason to continue this practice. And, they were only used in one county.

The law does not let counties use mobile voting facilities -- like the two voting buses Fulton County used in 2020 -- unless the governor declares an emergency, and only then to supplement the capacity of a particular polling place where the emergency occurred.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/31/politics/fact-check-georgia-voting-bill-law-elections-explained/index.html

I suggest you do some research on how voting opportunities have been expanded under this law.
You can start here, but don't limit yourself to these: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/30/no-georgias-new-voting-law-is-not-return-jim-crow/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-fact-checker-biden-misled-about-georgia-election-law-it-expands-voting-opportunities-for-most-georgians?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter

[Anonymous]

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.

They do when the party in power decides to make things as difficult as possible for their political opponents to exercise their right to vote. The Republican government and boards of elections tried to make things more difficult. They reduced the number of voting stations in heavily populated, predominantly black parts of the state. Thus funneling more voters to fewer polling stations. They decreased the number of voting machines available at those largely oversubscribed voting stations and ended up with lines that took up to 6 hours in some places to wind down. This discouraged many who after 3-4 hours of waiting, had to leave the line to vote to get something to eat and drink and use the facilities. So volunteers started bringing pizza and water to the polling stations to keep people in lines. In the case of many, they left and by the time they returned the polling station had closed and they were no longer allowed to return to the line. So they were disenfranchised by the inhumane political machinations.

Note that these changes to the election process were most prevalent in minority heavy and Democratic areas, like many of the suburbs of Atlanta (like Fulton county).

Note that the Republicans are not trying to increase the number of polling stations or increase the number of voting booths that are given to these heavily populated areas, they are trying to cut down on people providing food and drink to the voters that may still have to wait in line 4-6 hours to vote. They are actively trying to discourage predominantly Democratic voters (the areas that vote 70-90% Democratic depending on the contest).

And the other changes to the election law are designed to ensure that they can put in place election boards or commissioners who will not increase the number of polling places or voting booths available in the heavily populated Atlanta suburbs.

The fact that you respond the way that you do, means that you support the Republicans efforts to disenfranchise the heavily minority voters in the affected counties.

Can’t they bring their own snacks??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a next step, we need to pull all national broadcasts of their professional and college sports teams. Conservatives only listen when it hits them in their wallets. Love it!

Yes!! Do this!!!

The teams will just love that and will thank you profusely!!!

Cancel these sports teams - that's the ticket!!!!

Come on, everyone, get on board the Cancel Train!!!!

[Anonymous]

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.

They do when the party in power decides to make things as difficult as possible for their political opponents to exercise their right to vote. The Republican government and boards of elections tried to make things more difficult. They reduced the number of voting stations in heavily populated, predominantly black parts of the state. Thus funneling more voters to fewer polling stations. They decreased the number of voting machines available at those largely oversubscribed voting stations and ended up with lines that took up to 6 hours in some places to wind down. This discouraged many who after 3-4 hours of waiting, had to leave the line to vote to get something to eat and drink and use the facilities. So volunteers started bringing pizza and water to the polling stations to keep people in lines. In the case of many, they left and by the time they returned the polling station had closed and they were no longer allowed to return to the line. So they were disenfranchised by the inhumane political machinations.

Note that these changes to the election process were most prevalent in minority heavy and Democratic areas, like many of the suburbs of Atlanta (like Fulton county).

Note that the Republicans are not trying to increase the number of polling stations or increase the number of voting booths that are given to these heavily populated areas, they are trying to cut down on people providing food and drink to the voters that may still have to wait in line 4-6 hours to vote. They are actively trying to discourage predominantly Democratic voters (the areas that vote 70-90% Democratic depending on the contest).

And the other changes to the election law are designed to ensure that they can put in place election boards or commissioners who will not increase the number of polling places or voting booths available in the heavily populated Atlanta suburbs.

The fact that you respond the way that you do, means that you support the Republicans efforts to disenfranchise the heavily minority voters in the affected counties.

Can’t they bring their own snacks??

Don't you know.... to some people (liberals), government is their caretaker. No, they can't bring their own water and snacks. It has to be provided and it has to be free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They bowed to the mob. Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.

When Republicans are held accountable for their actions, all they can do is bleat about cancel culture. Constituents of the party that once stood for personal responsibility - facing the consequences for the actions one takes - have devolved into a bunch of whiners. How incredibly pathetic.

Actions? What actions?

Extending voting times? Codifying the use of ballot drop boxes?
Please be specific about the "actions" to which you are referring.

You conveniently ignore the objectionable parts of the bill. Please don't be selective here.

Tell us about those then. Please, elaborate.

Voters will have less time to request absentee ballots, there are strict new ID requirements for absentee ballots, election officials cannot mail out absentee ballot applications to all voters, fewer drop boxes are allowed in future elections than in 2020, offering food or water to people waiting in line to vote is now illegal, the legislature has more control over the election board, mobile voting centers are banned, among many others.

Georgia's election was secure and fair. The only reason for these changes is to suppress the vote.

Many of the provisions for voting in 2020 were only put there because of the pandemic. They were expensive and they are not needed in normal times.
But, you knew that, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a next step, we need to pull all national broadcasts of their professional and college sports teams. Conservatives only listen when it hits them in their wallets. Love it!

Yes!! Do this!!!

The teams will just love that and will thank you profusely!!!

Cancel these sports teams - that's the ticket!!!!

Come on, everyone, get on board the Cancel Train!!!!

That’ll be on the Republicans. If they don’t forgo their shenanigans, the people they claim to represent get hurt... seems fair, no?