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Republicans know that the people do not like their policies. Republicans have not been able to win in the marketplace of ideas for decades now, they lost the popular vote for president in five of the last six elections. They know that they can not win if every informed citizen who wants to vote will vote.
Their only option is to prevent people from voting.
It used to embarrass Republicans, but they did it anyway. Now they are no longer embarrassed, they just do it.
Republicans know that an expanded electorate will crush them. If they wanted more election security, they could do that, while also expanding the electorate. But, that is not what they are doing.
To find a way that ALL eligible voters can vote, easily and simply is not an impossible undertaking. To increase election security should not come at the expense of denying eligible voters their rights as American citizens.
Denying a vote to ANY eligible voter is the work of fascism.
I’ve heard a good one: offering water and food to voters waiting in line, is now “illegal”! First, I thought it must be a joke....
One has to go low (very low) to use such means in order to win elections. Anyway, you won’t be able to block the majority from winning forever. These games will have end sooner of later.
I’ve heard a good one: offering water and food to voters waiting in line, is now “illegal”! First, I thought it must be a joke....
One has to go low (very low) to use such means in order to win elections. Anyway, you won’t be able to block the majority from winning forever. These games will have end sooner of later.
The food and water can be considered gifts, which could be viewed as a attempt of coercing a person to vote a certain way. I know, most times it will be innocent, but it opens the door for outside groups to pester voters directly while waiting in line.
It's already set that groups can hold signs up 50 feet away from voters, so they can set up a table with food and drink 50 feet away as well. If a voter wants it then they can go there themselves. If they claim they are disabled and need the refreshments? It's already law that they get put to the front of the line in that case already so that's a moot point also...
Sadly the laws about voting locations are in place for a reason. And it's not arbitrary. If you knew history you would know that. If you have issues with these then take it up with the people who created the reasons for it. People standing around a polling location with bats should have you outraged.
Let’s take a look at what S.B. 202 actually says:
No person shall solicit votes [or] 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 [a voter] … This Code section shall not be construed to prohibit a poll officer…from making available self-service water from an unattended receptacle to [a voter] waiting in line to vote.
The parts in bold are what S.B. 202 added to the statute. The prohibition applies inside polling places, within 150 feet of a polling place, or “within 25 feet of any voter standing in line to vote at any polling place.”
Waiting for the Reply’s from CD,s version of, Putin’s Hero’s aka Trump Supporters.
The Dems are going to have play dirty just like the right does. When you’re fighting an opponent that will use any and everything to win, and you keep fight fair, you’re going to loose.
The food and water can be considered gifts, which could be viewed as a attempt of coercing a person to vote a certain way. I know, most times it will be innocent, but it opens the door for outside groups to pester voters directly while waiting in line.
Really...I’m honestly surprised how far some people would go, digging solutions for inexistent problems. If you put together all these solutions you can’t avoid concluding they have only one goal: to suppress voting. Preventing people from casting their vote, as a way of winning elections, where otherwise they would be lost. It’s a shameful way of winning in a democratic election.
Were there cases when voters changed their mind after being offered water and a cookie? Not really. Are cases of massive fraud with boxes? Not known. Where there cases of large number of deceased people “voting” and swaying election results? Unknown of. Were any known cases of thousands ballots mailed to unregistered people which made it possible for them to vote? Unknown of.
As such what justifies the recent drive to solve these “problems”?
Republicans know that the people do not like their policies. Republicans have not been able to win in the marketplace of ideas for decades now . . . .
Stop it. That is ridiculous. Most people aren't voting about "ideas". Most Democrats are voting for freebies; they are voting to take stuff from the Republican voters. There's no "idea" Republicans can come up with to stop that.
Most of the rest of the Democrats are voting based on LIES about the Republicans, and again there's nothing Republicans can do about that. Republican ideas don't matter to those voters, either.
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