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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people freaking out about GA's law are nothing more than Henny Pennys.  Seems as if some are upset that it will just be harder to cheat.

[quote]Georgia’s new law leaves in place Sunday voting, a point of contention with earlier proposals, given that black churches have a “souls to the polls” tradition after services. The Legislature, rather, decided to expand weekend early voting statewide, by requiring two Saturdays instead of only one under current law. In total, Georgia offers three weeks of early voting, which began last year on Oct. 12. This is not exactly restrictive: Compare that with early voting that started Oct. 24 last year in New York.

The new law also leaves in place no-excuses absentee voting. Every eligible Georgia voter will continue to be allowed to request a mail ballot for the sake of simple convenience—or for no reason at all. Again, this is hardly restrictive: More than a dozen states, including Connecticut and Delaware, require mail voters to give a valid excuse.[/quote]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jim-eagle-and-georgias-voting-law-11616799451

And, the title of this thread needs to be changed since there is no "end to absentee balloting."  [/quote]

What exactly necessitated this law and why is illegal to give people waiting in line food and water?[/quote]

[b]The 2020 election was a mess in GA, in case you hadn't noticed.  If the people in GA, and nationally, cannot have faith in the veracity of the vote, there are issues.  The same is true in other states that should be scrutinizing their own election laws and procedures.  [/b]
https://www.georgiapolicy.org/issue/georgias-election-mess/

And, the food and water issue...... electioneering laws.  Providing people in line with goods opens up the possibility of campaigning to people in line.  It is prohibited. 
If people want food or water, they are welcome to bring their own.  [/quote]
Please provide evidence that the 2020 election in Georgia was “a mess,” because plenty of people have claimed this without any proof. [b]If they had been able to count mail in ballots before Election Day it would have been perfectly smooth - does this legislation fix that?[/b] And if there are people who don’t “have faith in the veracity of the vote,” it’s because they’re listening to people like you who have been lying nonstop about it.[/quote]

Yes, indeed.

"Among complaints about the 2020 election was how long it took for some counties to release their final vote totals, how others missed batches of ballots the first time and general confusion about why the process is not over on election night.

A change local officials embrace is a section that allows them to begin processing, but not tabulating, absentee ballots starting two weeks before the election. There's extra incentive to do so, by way of a new requirement that counties count all of the ballots nonstop as soon as polls close and finish by 5 p.m. the next day or potentially face investigation."

https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/03/26/what-does-georgias-new-voting-law-sb-202-do[/quote]

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