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> Only Republicans lie about elections — when we do it, it’s “fortifying” and “election integrity”. Bingo, it will be couched in those terms as well as "voting

by coolso 5y ago

> Only Republicans lie about elections — when we do it, it’s “fortifying” and “election integrity”. Bingo, it will be couched in those terms as well as "voting rights". To them, if you aren't picked up and given a free ride by an Uber to a polling place, then fed and given free water while waiting in line, then given a free ride back to your house, the election is being interf- I mean, "voting rights" are being trampled.

saulrh 5y ago
When I was a student in Atlanta - no car, miserable public transit, before Uber and Lyft - my polling place was a small government office in a suburb halfway across the county, which is a narrow strip from one edge of the ATL metropolitan area to the other, neatly bisecting the most densely populated parts of the city. It took me nearly three hours to get out there from campus in the middle of midtown, I waited in line for another hour, they took another half-hour to find my registration, and it took me four hours to get back to my dorm. I had to skip several lectures and I'm lucky that none of my professors scheduled actual exams that day.
ncallaway 5y ago
> then fed and given free water while waiting in line Is this a complaint that people are opposed to the GA law that doesn’t allow people to hand out water to voters in line? https://www.fox61.com/article/news/verify/yes-its-illegal-to-give-water-food-to-georgia-voters-in-line-for-polls/507-88b0a0d2-0230-429e-becc-30d37565bcc9 https://www.fox61.com/article/news/verify/yes-its-illegal-to... If so, can you provide any compelling reason why that should be illegal? If someone has to stand in line for hours to vote, you’re damn right that people should be allowed to receive water.
- andrewjf 5y ago
  When republicans systemically and intentionally close polling places[1, 2] to concentrate the same amount of people into fewer places in order to deter people from voting by causing long lines and crowding. An then on top of that, preventing people in line from, you know, drinking water. This stuff isn't an accident, it's intentional voter suppression by one party. 1: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-lincoln-county-georgia/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-... 2: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/23/texas-voting-polling-restrictions/ https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/23/texas-voting-polling...
mattzito 5y ago
Why wouldn't we want to make it as easy as possible to vote? For everybody? I don't know that we have to uber everyone there and back, but why not make it super easy to vote by mail? It's not even a partisan issue, per se, lots of elderly conservative people vote by mail, especially during covid.

by coolso 5y ago

saulrh 5y ago

When I was a student in Atlanta - no car, miserable public transit, before Uber and Lyft - my polling place was a small government office in a suburb halfway across the county, which is a narrow strip from one edge of the ATL metropolitan area to the other, neatly bisecting the most densely populated parts of the city. It took me nearly three hours to get out there from campus in the middle of midtown, I waited in line for another hour, they took another half-hour to find my registration, and it took me four hours to get back to my dorm. I had to skip several lectures and I'm lucky that none of my professors scheduled actual exams that day.

ncallaway 5y ago

> then fed and given free water while waiting in line Is this a complaint that people are opposed to the GA law that doesn’t allow people to hand out water to voters in line? https://www.fox61.com/article/news/verify/yes-its-illegal-to-give-water-food-to-georgia-voters-in-line-for-polls/507-88b0a0d2-0230-429e-becc-30d37565bcc9 https://www.fox61.com/article/news/verify/yes-its-illegal-to... If so, can you provide any compelling reason why that should be illegal? If someone has to stand in line for hours to vote, you’re damn right that people should be allowed to receive water.

andrewjf 5y ago
When republicans systemically and intentionally close polling places[1, 2] to concentrate the same amount of people into fewer places in order to deter people from voting by causing long lines and crowding. An then on top of that, preventing people in line from, you know, drinking water. This stuff isn't an accident, it's intentional voter suppression by one party. 1: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-lincoln-county-georgia/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-... 2: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/23/texas-voting-polling-restrictions/ https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/23/texas-voting-polling...

mattzito 5y ago

Why wouldn't we want to make it as easy as possible to vote? For everybody? I don't know that we have to uber everyone there and back, but why not make it super easy to vote by mail? It's not even a partisan issue, per se, lots of elderly conservative people vote by mail, especially during covid.