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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Voting rights legislation is needed as Trumpy republican led states are trying to take voting rights away as much as possible. For example, you can't give people water in extremely hot Georgia while they wait in long lines with fewer voting machines in majority black districts.

White friends in Georgia, who were registered as democrats,  were turned away from and bounced between polling places until it was too late for them to vote. No amount of arguing or proof of identity and voting registration cards seemed to help.

And then you have all the conservative Republican accusations of illegal voting, which has not actually been found. The only cases that have been, have actually been republicans.

There is no way I would register as a Democrat in a state led by a Trumpy republican governor right now, because I would be afraid I would be prevented from voting. As a white person. [/quote]

Water is allowed. In fact, self serve water fountains MUST be provided. They just don’t want people mixing with people in line and giving out things because it can influence them to vote one way or the other. That’s a very sensible rule. Stop the lie that people don’t have access to water.[/quote]

A lot of good those self serve water fountains do when you're stuck standing for hours OUTSIDE of the polling station where the water fountains are.

And TBH the water isn't even the problem.  It's the standing for hours waiting.  That's why they need to improve the ways by which one can cast a ballot.

Plus, with the water, a case of 40 bottles of water is not even $4 at Costco.  Do you seriously want us to believe that someone is going to completely change their political values and who they vote for in exchange for a $0.10 bottle of water?  I don't.  But if you still do, then maybe instead of worrying about the "undue influence" of a paltry $0.10 bottle of water you should instead focus on policies oriented toward treating them better and paying them more in the first place.[/quote]

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