joe mama laughs cause he drinks from the cup of trump.
joe mamma laughs cause he drinks from the poison cup of Dump.
Mail in voting used to be a conservative position. Like, the more people who vote, the better democracy is. Then the Old Weird Guy decided that was a bad thing.
In 2005, the year that Republicans gained control of state government after decades of Democratic domination,
HB 244 was a 59-page bill that contained nearly 70 revisions of state election code, including two major changes: adding a photo ID requirement for in-person voting and allowing Georgians to vote by mail without an excuse, and without an ID.
At the time, Democrats and voting rights groups adamantly opposed both measures. Lawmakers compared the photo ID requirement to Jim Crow laws and warned that Georgia would have some of the country’s most restrictive voting procedures. The addition of no-excuse absentee voting did not reassure Democrats, either. In an eerie inversion of today’s positions, they argued that it would introduce a system ripe for abuse.
“By removing restrictions related to mailed absentee ballots, HB 244 opens a greater opportunity for fraud,” former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, then a Democratic state senator, wrote in an op-ed. “Skeptics might point out that absentee voters have historically voted for Republicans in higher numbers.”
Among the lawmakers who voted for the bill were Gov. Brian Kemp (then a state senator),
The fight over election law is not new to Georgia lawmakers, but prevailing views have changed. Republicans passed no-excuse absentee voting in 2005, over objections from Democrats concerned about the lack of ID required to vote by mail and stricter regulations to vote in person.
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The biggest change came in 1991, when the state Legislature passed a law that stated any voter could cast an absentee ballot. At the time, only a
few other states offered no-excuse voting by mail.
County recorders from both political parties broadly supported the change, said Helen Purcell, a Republican and former longtime Maricopa County recorder.
Republicans saw it as a tool to turn out older voters, especially retirees, said Chuck Coughlin, who worked for multiple GOP campaigns, including that of former Gov. Jan Brewer.
"The idea was to give those people an easy way to participate in civic life out here, and that was thought to be a positive thing at that time, and it was and is," said Coughlin, CEO of HighGround consulting firm. (Coughlin is now a "party not declared" voter.)
In 2007, the state created a permanent early voting list so that voters could automatically get a mail ballot for each election.
"It worked like a charm for years," said F. Ann Rodriguez, a Democrat and Pima County recorder who retired after the 2020 election. "It's been very successful."
But then things changed in 2020.
In 2020 Trump and his allies spread falsehoods
In 1991, the World Wide Web was in its infancy, the Soviet Union collapsed and Madonna topped the charts. In the world o
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ONE thing racists in the South shudda learned by now is that trying to win majorities with minorities of voters is not a shrewd or civil path.
