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

But not to derail the topic thread

 Voters wait an average of just six minutes in line after 7pm in precincts 
where 90% of residents are white. But when 90% of voters are Black? The 
wait is 51 minutes.

Between 2012 and 2018, Georgia shut 8% of all precincts statewide, and 
moved 40% of them.

 According to a study by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the combination 
of fewer precincts and longer commutes could have kept as many as 85,000 
people from casting a ballot in 2018. This disproportionately affected 
Black voters, who were 20% less likely to make it to the polls as a 
result.

The new law limits four of the state=E2=80=99s most populous, and 
predominantly Black counties, to just 23 drop boxes =E2=80=93 down from 94 
during the 2020 and makes them available only during government office 
hours, rather than around the clock. Mobile voting centers have been 
banned.

The amount of time that voters have to request an absentee ballot is 
reduced by half. It adds additional new voter ID provisions for requesting 
and casting an absentee ballot; studies show that voters of color are much 
more likely than white voters to have their ballots disqualified for 
missing that step.

Standardize the early voting hours from 9am to 5pm, rather than 7am to 
7pm, to make it that much harder for working people to cast their ballot.

From what i see, JC's concern that invalid voting cancels out legitimate 
votes has not been the motivation of the law changes.

Democracy is about participation in the process, not trying to exclude a 
section of the population through gerrymandering rules. Look what happened 
in Northern Ireland when the Protestants imposed election rules to favor 
themselves and handicap the Catholics. Civil war ensued.