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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked the polls in the south.  We had no lines. 
There was plenty of parking available. We also have early voting so you have about 6 days to vote. (Five early voting days and the one major voting day.) Our polls are open from 7:00 am - 8:00 pm (extended hours.) [b]Everyone who had ID that showed they lived in our voting district was allowed to vote.  If the person was not listed on our rolls they were allowed to vote on a provisional ballot.[/b]

Our Supervisor of Elections in my county is African American.  Our trainers (to work the polls) were all African American trainers.

My southern county also allows mail in voting.

No country in the world allows people to vote without ID.  [/quote]

Do you seriously not understand that the whole point of requiring voter ID is so the GOP can make it harder to get ID and therefore harder to vote?  The fact that everyone who had ID was allowed to vote is completely meaningless when the main vehicle of suppression is preventing people from getting that ID in the first place.

[quote]Now Alabama closes 31 0f 67 Department of Motor Vehicle locations where most people get the most commonly used voter ID, the driver’s license. The majority of these counties in the state that are home to poor and Black people are on that list.

https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/alabamas-dmv-shutdown-has-everything-do-race [/quote]

[quote]Texas officials are pushing to close dozens of driver’s license offices in counties with large populations of Hispanic and Black voters—a move that could have an outsize impact in a state that makes it difficult to vote without a photo ID.

The Texas counties of Zapata, Jim Hogg, Brooks, and Kenedy stretch from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Gulf of Mexico and are the gateway to the Rio Grande Valley. Residents of these mostly rural and overwhelmingly Hispanic counties either have to or may soon have to travel to another county to obtain a driver’s license.

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/08/28/texas-officials-aim-to-shutter-drivers-license-offices-in-black-hispanic-communities/ [/quote]

And saying that allowing people to cast provisional ballots makes it OK is once again entirely missing the point that adding the extra step of provisional ballots is an intentional move to allow another avenue for voter suppression:

[quote]Republican candidates in Pennsylvania sued Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar in the state’s appellate court Tuesday night, arguing that voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected should not be permitted to cast provisional ballots instead, and Pennsylvania should throw out any votes in the battleground state that were cast that way.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/11/03/republicans-sue-pennsylvania-to-throw-out-provisional-ballots/?sh=6eb8a1051873 [/quote]

[quote] Husted illegally tossing provisional ballots, Dems say

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2012/11/28/husted-illegally-tossing-provisional-ballots/23955888007/ [/quote]

[quote] The Texas Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday morning asking Harris County to ID provisional ballots cast after 7 p.m. on Election Day. Elections Administrator Clifford Tatum presented commissioners with two packets Tuesday afternoon. The first included the full results, including the segregated provisional ballots.

"The second packet is dated today's date, 11/22/22, with a runtime of 2:46 p.m. This document reflects only the provisional ballots that were cast after 7 p.m. for each of the candidates and each of the propositions that were on the ballot."

Attorney General Ken Paxton had asked the state Supreme Court to disqualify those provisional ballots.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/elections/2022/11/22/437948/texas-ag-ken-paxton-asks-texas-supreme-court-to-throw-out-some-harris-county-provisional-ballots/ [/quote]

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