Georgia Republicans speed sweeping elections bill restricting voting access into law

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  1. Kal'Stang

    Kal'Stang Well-Known Member

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    You obviously did not click on the 2nd link I provided in post 4. That is the bill that passed. It's 2 pages long. Here it is one more time. LINK:SB 202

    Click on it this time. Read it for yourself. Then decide if you're going to take a drink or continue to believe CNN.
     
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    WRONG!

    What PASSED was a Bill over 90 Pages Long.

    House changes to the Senate Bill were over 90 pages:

    On a 100-75 party-line vote, the state House approved SB 202 early Thursday, and the Senate voted later Thursday to agree with the House changes 34-20 on a party-line vote as well.

    ^THAT was the version that was passed.

    Quit making stuff up.
    That is not a good look.

    https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/9813...on-overhaul-including-changes-to-absentee-vot
     
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    Kal'Stang Well-Known Member

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    I gave you a direct link to the bill that passed. On a .gov site for Georgia. Instead of listening to the lying media, use your own brain, and your own eyes and read the bill yourself. It even states right on it "AS PASSED SENATE". Think. Why would the media continue to use a .org site to show the bill? (if they provide a link at all) Why wouldn't they link DIRECTLY to the bill that passed itself? That is what I did. It was real simple to get it.

    Sorry AJ, you can deny it all that you want, believe your media masters all you want. But its right there in black and white on a .gov site. "You can lead a horse to water......"
     
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    Are there any people there that are going to agree with it?
     
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    What Does Georgia's New Voting Law SB 202 Do? | Georgia Public Broadcasting (gpb.org)
    I did look at some of it but I probably don't really understand it. You have to wonder if anyone from Georgia understands it. I don't think there will be that many that do. It will be hard for many of them. I hope Trump didn't have anything to do with this or influence either. I wouldn't be surprised if there was anything to do with Trump. Will this or can this be repealed? Only time will tell.
     
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    Big deal! I've never used a drop box, always showed an ID, and I've never been fed or watered while in line. You're also not supposed to campaign in line. So what?
     
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    Seriously? Who cares. You go to vote to vote, not to eat and drink. The practice of an advocacy group giving free food and drinks at the polls is, in effect, political solicitation.
     
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    Changes to early voting
    One of the biggest changes in the bill would expand early voting access for most counties, adding an additional mandatory Saturday and formally codifying Sunday voting hours as optional. Counties can have early voting open as long as 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., or 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at minimum. If you live in a larger metropolitan county, you might not notice a change. For most other counties, you will have an extra weekend day, and your weekday early voting hours will likely be longer.

    If you live in Fulton County, you'll no longer be able to use one of two mobile voting buses the county purchased last year to help with long lines. While a 2019 omnibus allowed early voting sites to be more locations, including places that are normally election day polls, the Republican-led legislature has now written laws that expressly prohibits a mobile poll except during an emergency declared by the governor.

    For polling place changes or closures, the law now requires better notice of those changes, including a 4-by-4-foot sign that shows where the new location is.

    Another new rule that affects both in-person early voting and election day voting would prohibit anyone except poll workers from handing out water to voters in line, and outlaw passing out food and water to voters within 150 feet of the building that serves as a poll, inside a polling place or within 25 feet of any voter standing in line. Depending on the location, it is still possible for third-party groups to have food and water available — and it is possible for the lines to extend beyond 150 feet.

    During early voting, counties must publicly report daily how many people have voted in person, how many absentee ballots have been issued, returned, accepted and rejected. Early voting sites and times must be published publicly ahead of time.

    For some of the people of Goergia, I consider this to be unfair. I see nothing fair about this. Simple as that.
     
  9. Richard Franks

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    I think there would be thos that would care. This is going to be hard for many and I could see that.
     
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    Did you click on the 2nd link that I provided? It is not the one being linked to by the news media. They are linking to a .org site. The one that I have linked to is a .gov site. And its 2 pages long.
     
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    I would like Cons to show me one case where one person changed their vote or was manipulated into voting for someone after they were given food while standing in line.
     
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    That's an amendment. The law is 60 some pages long.
     
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    I didn't see anything about them making it illegal to consume food or beverages while in line to vote. The one I read says they can't get food and/or water from volunteers at the polling places.

    The PURPOSE of this is to make it as time-consuming and inconvenient as possible to discourage voters from voting. The people behind it don't care that it's not fair. That was their GOAL.
     
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    Its actually not. If you look at what everyone else is providing, the .org site, it states "The House Special Committee on Election Integrity offers the following substitute to SB 202:" <--- that is what certain people wanted to go forward in place of SB 202. The link that I gave says:

    Senate Bill 202
    By: Senators Burns of the 23rd, Miller of the 49th, Dugan of the 30th, Ginn of the 47th,
    Anderson of the 24th and others
    AS PASSED SENATE
    A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    AN ACT

    See the difference?
     
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    No, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sure looks like an amendment to me.
     
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    SB 202 was an amendment. It says so in the first paragraph...but it wasn't an amendment to SB 202. Because it was SB 202. It was an amendment to Chapter 2 of Title 21.

    The one that the media is pointing to is what was suggested as a substitute to SB 202. It says so right there in the first line. But what passed is just a 2 page amendment to Chapter 2 Title 21.

    There is a reason that the news media is linking to a .org site instead of directly to the bill via a .gov site. Why do you think that is?
     
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    Did you read it? It's pretty clear that you can't give water to someone in line to vote.
     
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    Yes, I did read the .org site bill that the news media has spread. I also read the official .gov site bill that actually passed. They are not the same thing, check it out for yourself:
    https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/200015
     
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    What it has to do with is activists' use of food/water provision to get around the prohibition on campaigning near polling places. It's a restriction they brought on themselves.
     
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    Handing out ANYTHING is potential SOLICITATION.

    It's been banned in my country for many years, and for good reason.
     
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    It does not outlaw people in line getting water or food. Poll workers put out water stations which voters can use. Voters can bring food and can even order a pizza. What it does clarify as with other states is that people with NRA shirts on wearing MAGA hats cannot walk down the line handing out bottles water labled TRUMP or bags of hamburgers labled courtesy of Trump.
     
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    Oh and all this hair on fire hyperbole the MSM is running around yelling as has even President Biden?

    ATLANTA BASED NEWS OUTLET RETRACTS FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT NEW GA. ELECTIONS LAW LIMITING TIMES AND VOTER ACCESS

    Left-wing news outlet Atlanta Journal-Constitution issued a retraction after it falsely claimed the new Georgia elections law would limit voting times. On Wednesday, the correction was made after it was discovered the law would not end voting hours early. The paper even went as far as to say “experts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians.”

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    https://clarion.causeaction.com/202...lections-law-limiting-times-and-voter-access/
    So will the President issue a retraction of his baseless vile attack on the state of Georgia?
     
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    It is here too.
     
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