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"(a) No person shall solicit votes in any manner or by any means or method, nor shall any
person distribute or display any campaign material, nor shall any person give, offer to give,
or participate in the giving of any money or gifts, including, but not limited to, food and
drink, to an elector, nor shall any person solicit signatures for any petition, nor shall any
person, other than election officials discharging their duties, establish or set up any tables
or booths on any day in which ballots are being cast
(1) Within 150 feet of the outer edge of any building within which a polling place is established;
(2) Within any polling place; or
(3) Within 25 feet of any voter standing in line to vote at any polling place."
The way I read that is no person shale distribute water or food within 25 feet of any voter standing in line.
I don't live in GA, but at least here where it's well over 110F in the summers I never seen a poll worker hand out water. We also don't have 12 hour wait times to vote like Georgia does in some of those cities. My only conclusion is that this provision was designed to get people where those 12 hour lines were to go home and not vote.
Or to simply bring their own water and snacks. If you thought you were going to be standing in a long line and get thirsty, wouldn't you bring some water? Why would you assume that someone will be there to give you water? When you go to wait in line to renew drivers license or enter a sports stadium or attend a festival or line up for a Black Friday sale or any other instance that involves waiting in line, do you expect someone to be there handing out water and snacks?
good questions, all.
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Originally Posted by oceangaia
I've been voting for over 40 years and I don't remember anyone ever handing out water and snacks to people waiting in line.
Georgia is the only state in the south that you have 110f weather in the summer and No access to water. Don't you live in Texas?. Funny, the weather in the fall in Georgia is 65 high and 45 low at night. I didn't know you vote in GA in the summer. Yeah, Jim Crown on steroids.
Your profile says it all: "UnMehrkun Puppy-Kicking Socialist" You want the government to pay you an all you can eat buffet so you can vote. Anything short is voter suppression.
Voting was harder for me this time around than last. For an absentee ballot last year you could fill the info out online, the ballot would show up to your door, you'd vote, sign it and then drop in a drop box at the voting location.
This year you need to fill the absentee ballot online print it out (need a printer) sign it, mail it to the county (need stamps) and then hope it was approved before the election, and of course also the drop box location was further away.
I voted in person instead which is probably what the law wants.
Our in person voting is dumb too IMO where you fill out your votes at a computer, print it, walk it over to a scanner machine and scan the vote into the system. Don't worry though I'll keep voting!
Primary voting is a little different than general. GA shattered its record for turnout in the early voting period, with more than 850,000 votes before Primary Day even arrived. This is just primary. General will be more voting. I thought Democrats wanted more people voting?
Regarding B...nothing states that the polling workers "have" to set up water stations...just that they can.
So if they don't happen to, and then people are forced to wait in long lines (seems to only happen in densely populated urban areas...the places that tend to vote Democrat) that certainly is going to make it harder for them to vote...I understand not allowing people affiliated w/ a certain campaign from giving water to these people waiting for hours...but some non-affiliated group like a church or another non-affiliated group ought to be allowed to. Hell the way the law is written, if you bring your child w/ you, they cannot go get you a bottle of water if you are in line.
A) No that's not the way the law is written; and B) if you don't feel like standing in line on election day or bringing your own water (or having your kid fetch it for you or whatever), you can avail yourself of any of the EIGHTEEN early-election days to vote OR cast your no-reason-needed mail-in-vote.
I mean, jeez -- how burdensome! How "j1m c40w 0n 5t3r01dz LuLZ!!"
An effective means of helping folks get to voting places, used and fostered by Democratic blocs.
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Originally Posted by Thulsa
How was it affected by the recent Georgia election law changes?
It was banned.
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When the Spalding County Board of Elections eliminated early voting on Sundays, Democrats blamed a new state law and accused the Republican-controlled board of intentionally thwarting “Souls to the Polls,” a get-out-the-vote program among Black churches to urge their congregations to cast ballots after religious services...Voting rights groups and Democrats say they have changed their strategies to mobilize voters under the new rules. In Spalding County, for instance, local activists moved Souls to the Polls to a Saturday, and they defiantly promised that they would work twice as hard if that was what it took to protect voter access.
I think folks commented on the practice being banned, not 'not doing so'. And I think you know that.
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Don't you live in Texas?. Funny, the weather in the fall in Georgia is 65 high and 45 low at night. I didn't know you vote in GA in the summer. Yeah, Jim Crown on steroids. 
