Voters are waiting in line for hours in Georgia

[Anonymous]

Jesus - the max time I’d wait in line to vote is 20 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:We need start having international observers come in and monitor our elections. This is disgraceful.

Um, there are 22 more days until the election (and 16 more days with the polls open). I don't know why so many people are trying to vote on the first day the polls open.

Really? Don't you know why?

A vote today counts the same as a vote on October 28 or November 3. But if people prefer to wait in line, then that is their choice.

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“Voter suppression,” my a$$. Plenty of voters - of ALL races - have waited in line for hours to vote, across the country. As the PP said, if you want to vote early on the very first day, be prepared for a long wait. Early voters in Fairfax waited hours too. Was that “suppression”? The constant victimhood mentality is beyond exhausting.

What does voter suppression look like to you? You know damn well why these lines look like they do, in the precincts they are in, populated by the people they are. You know. You just don't care.

In order for there to be a victim, there has to be an aggressor. If you're tired of hearing about victimhood, maybe ask your party to stop trying to deny people their rights?

Voting is not a privilege, it is a right. We should be actively working to remove any and all roadblocks to exercising that right.

Are you implying that the only people having long waits are black? If so, you are remarkably uninformed. You should be embarrassed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/georgia-voting-lines-turnout.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/georgia-early-voting-lines

I don’t know what PP is saying. I am saying that if there is a massive discrepancy between voting times in different parts of a state, that should be illegal. Doesn’t matter who the voters are. Could be a split based on party. On race. On wealth. On competence of local officials. Doesn’t matter. If it takes you 4 hours to vote and me no time at all, you are being disenfranchised.

[Anonymous]

Buckhead is a wealthy area. Do certain precincts buy additional machines?

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So, just to recap: if (mainly white) voters in Buckhead wait four or more hours to vote, that’s simply due to high voter turnout. If (mainly black) voters wait four or more hours to vote, that’s suppression. Interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:So, just to recap: if (mainly white) voters in Buckhead wait four or more hours to vote, that’s simply due to high voter turnout. If (mainly black) voters wait four or more hours to vote, that’s suppression. Interesting.

No. If there is higher turnout than expected and voters in Buckhead and predominantly minority neighborhoods in other Atlanta suburbs have four hour waits, that is ridiculous in a first world country but not active suppression. If the Buckhead voter has no line and her minority counterparts have a four hour line at the same time, that is suppression. This isn’t rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:So, just to recap: if (mainly white) voters in Buckhead wait four or more hours to vote, that’s simply due to high voter turnout. If (mainly black) voters wait four or more hours to vote, that’s suppression. Interesting.

No. If there is higher turnout than expected and voters in Buckhead and predominantly minority neighborhoods in other Atlanta suburbs have four hour waits, that is ridiculous in a first world country but not active suppression. If the Buckhead voter has no line and her minority counterparts have a four hour line at the same time, that is suppression. This isn’t rocket science.

Sure, but that hasn’t happened this election. Lines to vote ACROSS Georgia were hours long, regardless. Yet you claim certain neighborhoods (black) were having their votes suppressed while others (white) - with equally long lines - weren’t.

Face it, you are making things up. Not a good look.

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Anonymous wrote:So, just to recap: if (mainly white) voters in Buckhead wait four or more hours to vote, that’s simply due to high voter turnout. If (mainly black) voters wait four or more hours to vote, that’s suppression. Interesting.

No. If there is higher turnout than expected and voters in Buckhead and predominantly minority neighborhoods in other Atlanta suburbs have four hour waits, that is ridiculous in a first world country but not active suppression. If the Buckhead voter has no line and her minority counterparts have a four hour line at the same time, that is suppression. This isn’t rocket science.

Sure, but that hasn’t happened this election. Lines to vote ACROSS Georgia were hours long, regardless. Yet you claim certain neighborhoods (black) were having their votes suppressed while others (white) - with equally long lines - weren’t.

Face it, you are making things up. Not a good look.

Not according to the AJC. Buckhead lines were short (20 min). Others as we have heard were 3 hours.

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Anonymous wrote:So, just to recap: if (mainly white) voters in Buckhead wait four or more hours to vote, that’s simply due to high voter turnout. If (mainly black) voters wait four or more hours to vote, that’s suppression. Interesting.

No. If there is higher turnout than expected and voters in Buckhead and predominantly minority neighborhoods in other Atlanta suburbs have four hour waits, that is ridiculous in a first world country but not active suppression. If the Buckhead voter has no line and her minority counterparts have a four hour line at the same time, that is suppression. This isn’t rocket science.

Sure, but that hasn’t happened this election. Lines to vote ACROSS Georgia were hours long, regardless. Yet you claim certain neighborhoods (black) were having their votes suppressed while others (white) - with equally long lines - weren’t.

Face it, you are making things up. Not a good look.

Not according to the AJC. Buckhead lines were short (20 min). Others as we have heard were 3 hours.

Link by the way. Will you admit that disparity is wrong and should be illegal?

https://www.ajc.com/politics/presidential-candidates-send-family-to-georgia-as-early-voting-starts/E4JSM2NR4VGULBOAKPYYKXFZ2A/

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Anonymous wrote:So, just to recap: if (mainly white) voters in Buckhead wait four or more hours to vote, that’s simply due to high voter turnout. If (mainly black) voters wait four or more hours to vote, that’s suppression. Interesting.

No. If there is higher turnout than expected and voters in Buckhead and predominantly minority neighborhoods in other Atlanta suburbs have four hour waits, that is ridiculous in a first world country but not active suppression. If the Buckhead voter has no line and her minority counterparts have a four hour line at the same time, that is suppression. This isn’t rocket science.

Sure, but that hasn’t happened this election. Lines to vote ACROSS Georgia were hours long, regardless. Yet you claim certain neighborhoods (black) were having their votes suppressed while others (white) - with equally long lines - weren’t.

Face it, you are making things up. Not a good look.

Not according to the AJC. Buckhead lines were short (20 min). Others as we have heard were 3 hours.

Not according to the MDJ. Buckhead voters waited between 3-4 hours.
https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/voters-fulton-s-early-voting-starts-with-long-lines-but-few-other-issues/article_9aa3a3d2-0cc0-11eb-89c6-c3ad04e7f05e.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, just to recap: if (mainly white) voters in Buckhead wait four or more hours to vote, that’s simply due to high voter turnout. If (mainly black) voters wait four or more hours to vote, that’s suppression. Interesting.

No. If there is higher turnout than expected and voters in Buckhead and predominantly minority neighborhoods in other Atlanta suburbs have four hour waits, that is ridiculous in a first world country but not active suppression. If the Buckhead voter has no line and her minority counterparts have a four hour line at the same time, that is suppression. This isn’t rocket science.

Sure, but that hasn’t happened this election. Lines to vote ACROSS Georgia were hours long, regardless. Yet you claim certain neighborhoods (black) were having their votes suppressed while others (white) - with equally long lines - weren’t.

Face it, you are making things up. Not a good look.

Not according to the AJC. Buckhead lines were short (20 min). Others as we have heard were 3 hours.

Not according to the MDJ. Buckhead voters waited between 3-4 hours.
https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/voters-fulton-s-early-voting-starts-with-long-lines-but-few-other-issues/article_9aa3a3d2-0cc0-11eb-89c6-c3ad04e7f05e.html

This is a known phenomenon. My sister voted in Buckhead which is why I know that her wait was short. And this is socio-economic based not necessarily party based. She is a democratic voter and many of her friends in Buckhead are too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/study-heavily-minority-precincts-endured-longer-wait-times-to-cast-ballots-in-2018/2019/11/04/f8433e1c-fef7-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We need start having international observers come in and monitor our elections. This is disgraceful.

Um, there are 22 more days until the election (and 16 more days with the polls open). I don't know why so many people are trying to vote on the first day the polls open.

I am from Europe, I voted there for 25 years, we vote in one day, sometime one day and half of the following day. country of 60 million people. no early voting no mail voting no absentee voting, we all vote on that day. no machines, just paper ballot and a pencil. I have never been in a line to vote, I may have waited 15 minutes a few people ahead of me max.

what happens in the US is simply mind blogging , from the point of view of other first world countries it is just unbelievable that a country that call itself a democracy has this type of situations. shame on Roberts and the other justices that decided to gut the voting rights act. we need a federal law that limit the number of voters per polling stations. in populous places we just need more polling stations, not longer lines

I agree with your comments. One issue this year is that even states and counties that would like to support more polling stations have had issues getting poll workers. Many poll workers tend to be retired people — and some who would usually work are not doing so this year because they may be at higher risks if they get Covid-19.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus - the max time I’d wait in line to vote is 20 minutes.

And that’s your right and your privilege, and a tribute to your personal priorities.

In contrast, too many people have sacrificed for my right to vote for me to blithely toss it away. In the past, I’ve waited well over an hour to vote. More than once, I have waited outside in the rain to vote. I will do whatever it takes to exercise my right to vote — including doing the research that it takes to be an informed voter.

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Anonymous wrote:So, just to recap: if (mainly white) voters in Buckhead wait four or more hours to vote, that’s simply due to high voter turnout. If (mainly black) voters wait four or more hours to vote, that’s suppression. Interesting.

No. If there is higher turnout than expected and voters in Buckhead and predominantly minority neighborhoods in other Atlanta suburbs have four hour waits, that is ridiculous in a first world country but not active suppression. If the Buckhead voter has no line and her minority counterparts have a four hour line at the same time, that is suppression. This isn’t rocket science.

Sure, but that hasn’t happened this election. Lines to vote ACROSS Georgia were hours long, regardless. Yet you claim certain neighborhoods (black) were having their votes suppressed while others (white) - with equally long lines - weren’t.

Face it, you are making things up. Not a good look.

Not according to the AJC. Buckhead lines were short (20 min). Others as we have heard were 3 hours.

Not according to the MDJ. Buckhead voters waited between 3-4 hours.
https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/voters-fulton-s-early-voting-starts-with-long-lines-but-few-other-issues/article_9aa3a3d2-0cc0-11eb-89c6-c3ad04e7f05e.html

This is a known phenomenon. My sister voted in Buckhead which is why I know that her wait was short. And this is socio-economic based not necessarily party based. She is a democratic voter and many of her friends in Buckhead are too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/study-heavily-minority-precincts-endured-longer-wait-times-to-cast-ballots-in-2018/2019/11/04/f8433e1c-fef7-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

It doesn't make sense even if it was socio-economically based though. This is Marietta - a largely white suburb with just as high revnue and tax dollars as Buckhead.

Yet look at this line?

[Anonymous]

Its a voter suppression conspiracy. Everybody is racist for being alive. Get on board with he narrative in 2020 already. Jeez.