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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way the DNC could go with Atlanta.  Not after the Democrats were successful at ousting the MLB All Star game from the city a couple years ago.  
We saw that it was a false narrative they were pushing, but that didn't stop them from the hateful rhetoric about "Jim Crow 2.0" and crap like that.  
Having it in Atlanta would reveal the lie.   [/quote]

It was no lie.  Do better.[/quote]

BS.

Biden should be calling his home state's laws "Jim Crow 2.0."

[quote]The Brennan Center, a progressive public policy group, has published a full report on these recent voting laws. The report says that Georgia “limit[ed] early voting days or hours.” A survey of states rules will highlight the problem with that characterization. Under its new law, Georgia mandates 17 days of early voting, including at least two Saturdays, and open during “regular business hours,” which the state has defined as from at least 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The Brennan Center didn’t mention Massachusetts, however, which has just 11 days of early voting held during “regular business hours,” which it doesn’t define. Just in 2019, New York’s Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a new voting bill that was intended to make voting easier, and it only required nine days of early voting but also required polls to stay open from 6 a.m.-9 p.m.. The federal voting rights legislation supported by the president only mandates 14 days of early voting but then would require polls to be open for 10 hours on those days.

And so we run into part of the problem, which is trying to take any single election regulation in isolation. Georgia also has automatic voter registration, unlike Minnesota, and a voter doesn’t need a reason to vote by mail, unlike Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and Delaware.[/quote]

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/06/the-new-voting-restrictions-arent-as-restrictive-as-many-think-00023390

[quote]If president joe biden wants to vote by mail next year in Delaware, he’ll have to provide a valid reason for why he can’t make the two-hour drive from the White House back to his polling place in Wilmington. Luckily for him, Biden’s line of work allows him to cast an absentee ballot: Being president counts as “public service” under state law. Most Delaware residents, however, won’t have such a convenient excuse. Few states have more limited voting options than Delaware, a Democratic bastion that allowed little mail balloting before the pandemic hit.

Biden has assailed Georgia’s new voting law as an atrocity akin to “Jim Crow in the 21st century” for the impact it could have on Black citizens. But even once the GOP-passed measure takes effect, Georgia citizens will still have far more opportunities to vote before Election Day than their counterparts in the president’s home state, where one in three residents is Black or Latino.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/democrats-voting-rights-contradiction/618599/[/quote]

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