Reform: The Legislation Edition

[alang1216]

• There are strict new ID requirements for absentee ballots.

Gasp! Someone voting “absentee” must prove they are who they claim to be? Oh the horrors! The horrors, I tell you!

That doesn’t even remotely “restrict” voting. The absentee option is still there as much as it ever was. You’re literally upset that it will be harder for the Dumbocrats to engage in voter fraud. When will you people finally just come out admit it (as you’ve done with socialism and pedophilia)?

The new law limits voting, it shrinks the window for voters to request mail ballots. Rather than allowing voters to request ballots six months from Election Day, the new law says voters can start requesting ballots 78 days out; counties can begin sending ballots to voters just 29 days before Election Day, rather than the previous 49 days. It also sets an earlier cutoff date for ballot application requests. Critics say any mail delays with these shorter periods could lead to voters not getting ballots on time, or not being able to return them in time. Voters who cast mail ballots will have to provide one of several forms of identification. This provision — which replaces a signature match previously used to confirm voters’ identities — is one of the most controversial because critics say it is likely to disproportionately affect Black voters.

Like most of these laws, it is a solution in search of a problem. No one has demonstrated any serious problems with mailed ballots.

 

[alang1216]

• Drop boxes still exist … but barely.

More propaganda from you fascists! Drop boxes never existed before in Georgia. Never. Now they have been added. Why? Because the voter law expands voting but restricts cheating (the two things you people don’t want).

A limit on the number of ballot drop boxes during early voting. It essentially limits the number of drop boxes in each county to one per early-voting site, or one for every 100,000 voters in the county, whichever number is smaller. And the drop boxes can’t be conveniently spread over the county, for example, in places where there aren’t in-person early-voting locations; they all have to be located either in a county election office or at an early-voting precinct location. They have to be indoors, which critics say make them less accessible and could lead to crowds where voters are already congregated,

 

[alang1216]

• Early voting is expanded in a lot of small counties, but probably not in more populous ones.

Yawn! More propaganda. Who presents “probably” in a discussion/debate? Who? You’re side is incapable of dealing in facts.

And let’s just pretend for the moment that it turns out to be true? So? So what? If early voting is expanded in even the smallest county in all of Georgia, it still expands voting.

Instead of a minimum of three weeks of early voting in runoffs, early voting in runoffs will be held in a single Monday-Friday period. (lost my NYT access)

 

[alang1216]

• With an eye toward voter fraud, the state attorney general will manage an election hotline.

Wait…you actually want to argue that a state “hotline” for reporting fraud somehow restricts voting?

Seriously sweetie, did you even read your hot-garbage before posting it, or did you do the typical left-wing blind cut & paste.

State lawmakers get much more power over county and local elections (and Republicans have decisive majorities in both the state Senate and the state House). The law states that the General Assembly will select the chair of the state elections board, rather than the board being chaired by the Georgia secretary of state — an elected position. The chair is supposed to be nonpartisan. The state election board can investigate county election boards and has the power to suspend county election superintendents — though the law limits the state board to suspending four at a time.

You might remember Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who became the target of his own party’s ire after President Donald Trump put pressure on him over the results of the 2020 election; this provision seems like a direct reaction to that, ensuring partisan state lawmakers can control the election process more directly.

 

[P@triot]

Instead of a minimum of three weeks of early voting in runoffs, early voting in runoffs will be held in a single Monday-Friday period. (lost my NYT access)

Yeah…it’s a runoff sweetie. They very rarely happen, and when they do, it requires swift resolution. Can’t have a 17 month runoff.

 

[alang1216]

Instead of a minimum of three weeks of early voting in runoffs, early voting in runoffs will be held in a single Monday-Friday period. (lost my NYT access)

Yeah…it’s a runoff sweetie. They very rarely happen, and when they do, it requires swift resolution. Can’t have a 17 month runoff.

You can justify the rationale for the policy but, if you are at all honest, you must admit that one week is more restrictive than three weeks.

 

[P@triot]

A limit on the number of ballot drop boxes during early voting.

Yeah…and before there were 0 drop-boxes in Georgia.So voting options have been expanded, making it easier for voters.

It essentially limits the number of drop boxes in each county to one per early-voting site, or one for every 100,000 voters in the county, whichever number is smaller.

Yeah…and before there were 0 drop-boxes per county. So voting options have been expanded, making it easier for voters.

And the drop boxes can’t be conveniently spread over the county, for example, in places where there aren’t in-person early-voting locations; they all have to be located either in a county election office or at an early-voting precinct location.

Right. To protect them from you left-wing lunatics who were caught stealing ballots from them.

They have to be indoors, which critics say make them less accessible and could lead to crowds where voters are already congregated,

Right. To protect them from you left-wing lunatics who were caught stealing ballots from them. And again, there were ZERO in Georgia before.

 

[alang1216]

A limit on the number of ballot drop boxes during early voting.

Yeah…and before there were 0 drop-boxes in Georgia.So voting options have been expanded, making it easier for voters.

Not true:

The new law requires each Georgia county to have a minimum of one drop box for absentee ballots. In 2020, when drop boxes were used for the first time in Georgia, the boxes were authorized by special pandemic-related rules rather than by long-term legislation.​

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However, the new law also limits how many drop boxes each county can have, how many hours and days the boxes can be open, and where they can be located.​

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In addition, the law says that drop boxes need to be located at elections offices or inside early voting locations. And it says the boxes can only be available during the hours that early voting is available. (If the governor declares an emergency, the boxes can be located outdoors.) In 2020, drop boxes could be located outside, available 24 hours a day, and open until the evening of Election Day.​

It essentially limits the number of drop boxes in each county to one per early-voting site, or one for every 100,000 voters in the county, whichever number is smaller.

Yeah…and before there were 0 drop-boxes per county. So voting options have been expanded, making it easier for voters.

Not true:

The law says that each county can't have more than one drop box per early voting site or per 100,000 active registered voters, whichever number is smaller. This provision will dramatically reduce the number of drop boxes available in some large counties. Fulton County, for example, says it would go from 38 drop boxes in the November election to eight in the future.​

And the drop boxes can’t be conveniently spread over the county, for example, in places where there aren’t in-person early-voting locations; they all have to be located either in a county election office or at an early-voting precinct location.

Right. To protect them from you left-wing lunatics who were caught stealing ballots from them.

I wasn't aware anyone was caught stealing ballots from them. Got a link?

They have to be indoors, which critics say make them less accessible and could lead to crowds where voters are already congregated,

Right. To protect them from you left-wing lunatics who were caught stealing ballots from them. And again, there were ZERO in Georgia before.

Again that is NOT TRUE. There were dropboxes in the previous election so this law restricts what was available in the last election. Why you may ask? Was there fraud or did the election not go the way the GOP wished? To say this is not a partisan use of legislative power is to deny reality.