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

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 4:42:34 PM UTC-4, ajohnstone wrote:
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> Voters wait an average of just six minutes in line after 7pm in precincts=
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> where 90% of residents are white. But when 90% of voters are Black? The=
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> wait is 51 minutes.=20

  What about before 7pm?

> Between 2012 and 2018, Georgia shut 8% of all precincts statewide, and=20
> moved 40% of them.=20
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> According to a study by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the combination=
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> of fewer precincts and longer commutes could have kept as many as 85,000=
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> people from casting a ballot in 2018.

  "could have"? I guess that means maybe not.

> This disproportionately affected=20
> Black voters, who were 20% less likely to make it to the polls as a=20
> result.=20

  Perhaps they were 20% less inclined to vote in that election.

> The new law limits four of the state=E2=80=99s most populous, and=20
> predominantly Black counties, to just 23 drop boxes =E2=80=93 down from 9=
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> during the 2020 and makes them available only during government office=20
> hours, rather than around the clock.

  Why would they be around the clock?

> Mobile voting centers have been=20
> banned.=20

  Why did they have them in the first place?

> The amount of time that voters have to request an absentee ballot is=20
> reduced by half. It adds additional new voter ID provisions for requestin=
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> and casting an absentee ballot; studies show that voters of color are muc=
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> more likely than white voters to have their ballots disqualified for=20
> missing that step.=20

  People with no ID should have their votes disqualified.

> Standardize the early voting hours from 9am to 5pm, rather than 7am to=20
> 7pm, to make it that much harder for working people to cast their ballot.=
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  https://georgia.gov/early-voting

> From what i see, JC's concern that invalid voting cancels out legitimate=
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> votes has not been the motivation of the law changes.=20

  All I care about is the ID requirement. The Democrats are playing the 
race card because they know that an ID requirement prevents them from 
cheating.

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