Re: Glenn V. Fell for Lies About Georgia Voting Law

On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 12:14:26 PM UTC-4, John Corbett wrote:
> On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 9:49:57 AM UTC-4, Glenn V. wrote:=20
> > On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 4:05:11 AM UTC+2, ajohnstone wrote:=20
> > > I've stayed out of this discussion mainly because in the run-up early=
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> > > voting i saw lines and lines of voters waiting for hours to cast thei=
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> > > I assure you that in the UK, this commitment would not have happened.=
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> > > We are accustomed, due to the ample number of polling places, to walk=
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> > > and walk-out, having our names marked off by the temporary-employed=
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> > > electoral officials from the voters roll, updated by a mail-out to al=
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> > > households for those eligible to vote to register some months previou=
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> > > also frequently and regularly amended, for the main reason that loan=
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> > > agencies use it to determine the addresses and length of residence of=
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> > > those applying for credit. As members of the EU, we did have the diff=
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> > > rules for EU-born residents. They could vote in local city and county=
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> > > elections, the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and the European Parlia=
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> > > but not in the national General Election. The counting of the votes i=
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> > > centralized regionally and again it is by paid voluntary staff.=20
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> > > There are some anomalies due to history. Irish Republican citizens an=
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> > > those from Malta and Cyprus can vote in the UK General Election if=20
> > > resident, regardless of their foreign passports.=20
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> > > I was genuinely impressed by the average American voters determinatio=
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> > > cast his or her ballot.=20
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> > > But it is not rocket-science to devise an easily operated election pr=
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> > > even under the most trying of circumstances such as faced by India, f=
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> > > example, which shares the feature of America being a federal union of=
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> > > individual states but with many additional difficulties complicating=
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> > > elections even more than any the USA face.=20
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> > > Trying to solve it on a state-by-state basis i believe is merely a re=
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> > > for failure and will not bring any resolution to the problem of=20
> > > universality and uniformity.=20
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> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_India=20
> > Agreed. Part of that is what I've been hinting about. These long lines =
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> > ridiculous to watch, absolutely embarrassing for the US, and it is, amo=
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> > other things, a question of making the proper resources available in or=
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> > to have free and fair elections. Most of what you wrote applies also to=
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> > Scandinavia and I can guarantee that you will never, ever, find those l=
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> > lines anywhere in Scandinavia.
> Long lines are the exception, not the rule. If there is one precinct that=
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> has a long line, the MSM will find it. If it is in a black neighborhood,=
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> they will present it as an example of how black people are being=20
> disenfranchised.=20

  Have to keep the "systematic racism" myth alive. it is worth too much 
politically to stop playing it up. Now they are saying the reason they 
want to get rid of the filibuster is because it is "historically racist". 
Like saying rope is historically racist because it was used for lynching.

  In reality it is the left, as represented by the MSM that are the 
racists. You can see that in what they see as significant. Recently when a 
black muslim ran over and killed a guard at the capitol and it was in the 
news for minutes. Make that a white Qanon member and you`d never hear the 
end of it.

  The truth of this can be seen in the way the Arbery case played out. If 
this was a black guy shooting another black guy, a white guy shooting a 
white guy or a black guy shooting a white guy none of us would have heard 
about it. Only because it was a white shooting a black was it deemed 
significant. Part of the job of the MSM is to keep racial tensions high so 
the Democratic Party can benefit.

>If it occurs in a white affluent neighborhood, they will=20
> ignore it because they can't use it as evidence of the narrative they are=
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> trying to push. The neighborhood where I resided when I lived in Columbus=
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> was a mixed race neighborhood. It was majority white when I moved there i=
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> 1979 and by 2001 when I moved out it had become split fairly equally=20
> between black and white. I suspect it has a black majority now. In the 22=
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> years I lived and voted there, I never once experienced a long line, even=
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> in heavy turnout years. My polling place was in a school gym and there=20
> were 6 voting precincts sharing that space. I never once saw long lines i=
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> any of them. I doubt I ever waited in line more than 10 minutes no matter=
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> how heavy the turnout was.=20
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> Black precincts are not discriminated against when allocating voting=20
> machines. In Ohio, each county board consists of two Democrats and two=20
> Republicans and the allocation of voting machines is done on a bipartisan=
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> basis. They make the decisions based on numbers of registered voters in a=
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> precinct and recent turnout at each precinct. Most precincts that use=20
> voting machines get two but a precinct with heavy turnout in recent=20
> elections might get a third. The counties will keep a number of voting=20
> machines in reserve because there is usually going to be some=20
> malfunctioning machines that will need to be replaced. When that happens,=
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> it takes some time for the reserve machine to be programmed for the=20
> location it is being sent to and then delivered and set up so it can be=
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> used. In the meantime, the lines back up. Voting machine malfunctions are=
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> rare but a few usually occur every election. They happen in rich, poor,=
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> black, and white neighborhoods. Malfunctioning machines do not=20
> discriminate.=20
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> My county went back to paper ballots several elections ago. That has=20
> eliminated the problem with malfunctioning machines. Instead our voting=
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> "booths" consist of tall pieces of cardboard tri-folded to form three=20
> sides where the voter can fill out his ballot in secret. Selections are=
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> made by filling in a circle next to the candidates name or the voters=20
> choice on issues. When the voter is done, they feed the ballot into a=20
> machine which reads and tabulates the votes. The ballots are retained in=
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> the event a manual recount is provided. The advantage of the paper ballot=
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> is we can have as many as six voters filling out their ballot at one time=
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> as opposed to when we had just two machines. Long lines are a thing of th=
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> past. There are pros and cons to using machines vs. paper ballots but I=
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> suspect that if all counties would return to using paper ballots that can=
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> be automatically counted, we wouldn't see any more of the long lines.