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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think it's awesome they are going to prevent old white people from voting if they don't have enough strength to stand in lines for a day at the polls. Which you don't, if you spend all your time watching Fox news all day. ~fellow white person [/quote]

Sadly, though, Georgia and other states have really devoted quite a bit of effort to closing polling places. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this is disproportionately happening in areas with higher percentages of Black voters and potential voters. 
Through cutting polling places, limited transportation options, and, yes, lines, I guess they really plan to show that Ms Abrams what’s what.  States rights..... same old same old. Sigh.

https://www.governing.com/archive/sl-polling-place-close-ahead-of-november-elections-black-voters.html

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Local officials are responsible for polling places..

[quote]The longer of it is that Georgia law lays a number of significant election responsibilities at the feet of county authorities. Some of those include:
"To select and equip polling places for use in primaries and elections."
"To purchase, except voting machines, preserve, store, and maintain election equipment of all kinds, including voting booths and ballot boxes and to procure ballots and all other supplies for primaries and elections."
"To appoint poll officers and other officers to serve in primaries and elections."
"To make and issue such rules, regulations, and instructions... for the guidance of poll officers, custodians, and electors in primaries and elections."
"To instruct poll officers and others in their duties, calling them together in meetings whenever deemed advisable, and to inspect systematically and thoroughly the conduct of primaries and elections in the several precincts of his or her county to the end that primaries and elections may be honestly, efficiently, and uniformly conducted."[/quote]

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/georgia-elections-how-they-actually-work-whos-responsible-for-what/85-de1989cc-62e7-4435-a9c9-f3892c7932bd[/quote]

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