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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been watching various news clips about this most of the morning (cnn and msnbc) and I’m still unclear how this limits access to voting or disenfranchises anyone. It expands early voting and reinforces laws on no-excuse mail-in voting.

I am a Dem btw. I don’t care about baseball and I don’t care if Georgia is mad. I’m just trying to understand the issues with the bill. (Serious post I swear.)[/quote]

Read the article by Stephen Fowler linked in the twitter thread above.  He writes for Georgia Public Broadcasting and is pretty much down the middle when reporting.  
And, you are right... it expands voting opportunity and provides for mail-in voting.  It also codifies things they did for the first time in 2020 that worked and fixed things that didn't (like waiting to count the absentee ballots).  [/quote]

I read the absentee section and the bill reduces the period during which you can request an absentee ballot and return it. It also reduces drop boxes to one per 100,000 active voters (or one per voting site, whichever is smaller) and makes them accessible only when the site is open instead of 24/7. How does that expand voting? Clearly they are trying to make it more difficult to vote absentee.

I saw someone say this law is not in response to voter fraud, it’s in response to voter turnout. That’s what they are trying to suppress. [/quote]

Thank you.

All the GA law supporters on here - stop trying to lie about this.   We’re literate you dumbasses and we see what the law is doing.  No Fing question it’s trying to reduce certain kinds of voting.  Remember when the GQP tried to overthrow the 2020 election?  We get it - you guys don’t like democracy anymore bc you keep losing the popularity contest bc you suck.[/quote]

You have 11 weeks to request a ballot.  That is nearly 3 months.  If voting is important to you, you can find the time within 11 weeks to request a ballot. 
2020 was the first time ever GA used drop boxes.  They are trying to tighten up the process so that people don't do ballot harvesting, which is not legal.  I don't blame them for doing this.  
The good thing about GA's law is it codifies the use of ballot boxes.  It also requires all counties to have at least one.  Some of them had none in 2020.  [/quote]

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