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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1378064751729725444[/twitter][/quote]

They bowed to the mob.  Full blown cancel culture.

And, the leadership has shown how grossly ill-informed they are.  [/quote]

[b]When Republicans are held accountable for their actions, all they can do is bleat about cancel culture.[/b] 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.[/quote]

Actions?  What actions?

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

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

Tell us about those then.  Please, elaborate.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

"Strict" ID requirements which are not exactly strict:  [quote]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.[/quote]
[quote]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.[/quote]

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.
 [quote]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. 
[/quote]
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.  
[quote]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."
[/quote]
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.  
T[quote]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.[/quote]
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.  
[quote]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.
[/quote]

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[/quote]

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