Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene "likes" the Mossad-did-it Theory

On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 7:21:50 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 2:40:20 PM UTC-5, John Corbett wrote: 
> 
> > My sentiments exactly. I lived the better part of my adult life in 
> > Columbus, Oh. My voting precinct was at a school about 200 feet from my 
> > front door. Very convenient. Not everybody lives that close, but typically 
> > most people who live in a city are within walking distance of their 
> > polling place. For the last 20 years I have lived in a rural location. My 
> > polling place is about a mile and a half away. And a drop box? What the 
> > hell is that? My situation is typical for most rural Americans. Our 
> > polling places are miles, not blocks from our houses. Guess what. We don't 
> > whine about being disenfranchised because we have to make a bit of an 
> > effort to go vote. We get in our cars and we drive to our polling place, 
> > we show our ID, we stand in line, and when it's our turn. we cast our 
> > ballots. In 2016 we turned out in sufficient numbers to elect Donald Trump 
> > President of the United States when all the "smart" people were telling us 
> > he had no chance. I don't give a good goddam about somebody who tells me 
> > they are being disenfranchised because it's not as convenient to vote as 
> > they would like. NOBODY is being disenfranchised unless they 
> > disenfranchise themselves. If they don't want to make the necessary effort 
> > to vote, piss on 'em.
> The method of voting you describe for rural areas, when done that way in 
> highly populated, urban areas generally results in very long lines. Now, 
> add some rain, snow or any kind of inclement weather and it certainly 
> becomes a discouragement toward voting. You say, that "most people who 
> live in a city are within walking distance of their polling place." What 
> is "walking distance" for one person is something completely different for 
> somebody else. And, what if it's raining? What if it's very cold? 

We have long lines in rural areas to. Voting machine are allocated based 
on population. Our population isn't as dense but it contains as many 
people as an urban precinct. Our precinct is our township which is rough 6 
miles by 6 miles.

> 
> Is an 70-yr-old man supposed to stand in line for 2 hours? 

If that's what it takes. We have people a lot older than 70 in our 
township and in 2004 one of the two machines broke down resulting in a 
very long line. I was in line over an hour. Two hour waits are the 
exception, not the rule and they are usually combination of a voting 
machine malfunction and heavy turnout.

> 
> There's no such thing as a "lazy voter." There's only voting and 
> not-voting.

Some of the non-voters are just lazy. Others just don't care. 

> It's not about being lazy or energized. Voting isn't supposed 
> to be like running an obstacle course where you only get to vote after 
> you've conquered all the obstacles. 

Voting requirements are the same for everybody. You make it sound like 
blacks or poor people have it tougher than rich white people. 

> 
> I'm guessing you didn't feel that strongly nor even gave much thought 
> about the differences between mail-in voting vs in-person voting until the 
> past year. Am I right?

I don't object to mail in voting. I object to the lack of sufficient 
safeguards which allow ballot harvesting. Mail in voting is still allowed 
in Georgia. They have just added some safeguards which make ballot 
harvesting more difficult.

> 
> I am now retired, but in my airline days, I never knew in advance whether 
> I'd even be home on election day as we only got our flight schedule a 
> couple weeks before the new month began. Sometimes I wasn't even home 
> during the small window where early voting occurs. I always applied for an 
> absentee ballot to cover that situation. Sometimes I was actually off on 
> election day but I usually already submitted my ballot through the mail. 
> 

That is still an option. Nobody has taken that away.