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Slight Correction of Georgia Election laws from AJC
georgiaduck
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Simple mix up. Could have happened to anyone..
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Manfred is pretty much the worst pro sports commish by a wide margin ... and that was well before this announcement
Is the NCAA(P) going to pull football out of Georgia? the NFL, what about Delta? is the airport still in business?
Where are the bans when we need them?
Below the radar reason is that the Brewers are the team of Commissioner Emeritus Bud Selig ... but surely no conflict of interest there
What exactly did the Braves as an organization have to do with the bill that was passed? What could they have done differently?
There’s a desire to ensure that the individual that voted is actually the person they say that they are ... a position that a majority of Americans agree with and have for a long period of time
Ensuring that to receive an absentee ballot that the individual voter requests the ballot vs everybody getting mailed one without requesting it ... I suspect this is aimed at ensuring one vote for each voter versus ballot harvesting (as an aside I’d love to know what controls we have in place with elections to audit against - particularly real time - to ensure for instance that I don’t vote not only with my absentee ballot but also in person on Election Day?)
Limiting the hours of drop boxes to be consistent with the same times as early voting is open ... effectively it appears to be aimed at ensuring the presence of someone to verify that the individual dropping off the ballot matches the individual voter
Restricting distributing food/drink to those standing in line ... I have to think this is designed to prevent against appearances of impropriety
The hours on the drop box probably aren’t needed. That could be replaced quickly by saying anybody that requests an absentee ballot is ineligible to vote directly at a ballot/voting location. The food/drink thing is kinda stupid but at the same time that’s an easy optic one to fix on a number of levels.
I mean I can see a little bit of the “it’s making it harder to vote” arguments but it seems like twisting to me to make a bigger issue than it is.
What am I missing?
And you are correct this is twisting the truth to make it seem bigger. Biden's Jim Crow comment, MLB moving the ASG are significantly disproportional to the new laws (which apply to everyone by the way).
This is all a distraction from Biden fucking up kids in cages and situations like Cuomo with his sexual assault allegations/colossal fuck up of senior centers and COVID.
Having votes in Georgia for 25 years I've never once had to wait more than 10-15 minutes. I'm quite sure other places are longer, but the bill allows early and weekend voting. Most importantly, it narrows the time between runoff elections which are insufferable.
If people are waiting 10 hours then there are other issues that need to be addressed besides food/drink
And you’re right, groups distributing items give the illusions of impropriety and conflicts of interest. It’s one of those unfortunate realities of life.
From afar it feels to me like the bill as passed was sloppy and left too many instances of low hanging fruit to blow up.
I don’t do well with the “because I said so” crowd