Why more and more people distrust Biden and the BIASED MSM..."GA bans volunteers from delivering water, etc. BIG ASS LIE!

[SC Patriot]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

Hey. You are better than that.

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water....what they tried to stop was water bottles saying "vote for Jane Doe" within 150 feet of a polling place.

I know it means little to you. I am OK with it. But your recent posts have made me feel differently about your agenda. I thought you were sincere...and I told you that....but for you to write this post? You are from from sincere.

I am disappointed. I know....you dont care about my disappointment. But I do.

 

[Care4all]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

. . . and YOU must think folks are STOOPID.

Handing out water is just a pretense. Do you honestly think that they just say, hey, you thirsty? And that is all?

Do you think republican campaigners handing out water to a long voting line of black democratic leaning voters is going to convince them to vote for a republican, and change the voter's mind about the candidate that they've been dog headedly standing in line for 5 hours, to vote for.....?

The whole notion just seems ridiculous to me...

 

[Care4all]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

Hey. You are better than that.

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water....what they tried to stop was water bottles saying "vote for Jane Doe" within 150 feet of a polling place.

I know it means little to you. I am OK with it. But your recent posts have made me feel differently about your agenda. I thought you were sincere...and I told you that....but for you to write this post? You are from from sincere.

I am disappointed. I know....you dont care about my disappointment. But I do.

good morning SC
Electioneering and campaigning within 150 yards from the polling place has been the law and illegal.... So what was the purpose of the new law?

And this new law, made it illegal for anyone to give out water or food to those waiting hours in line, not just those campaign workers.

That may not have been their intention, but it is how the law is written and interpreted by legal scholars.

 

[SC Patriot]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

Hey. You are better than that.

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water....what they tried to stop was water bottles saying "vote for Jane Doe" within 150 feet of a polling place.

I know it means little to you. I am OK with it. But your recent posts have made me feel differently about your agenda. I thought you were sincere...and I told you that....but for you to write this post? You are from from sincere.

I am disappointed. I know....you dont care about my disappointment. But I do.

good morning SC
Electioneering and campaigning within 150 yards from the polling place has been the law and illegal.... So what was the purpose of the new law?

And this new law, made it illegal for anyone to give out water or food to those waiting hours in line, not just those campaign workers.

That may not have been their intention, but it is how the law is written and interpreted by legal scholars.

It was written because it was noticed that people not affiliated with the poll were giving out water to people on line to vote during the Georgia senate re election. No big deal, but some people on line said they were being told they should vote one was over another. REP? DEM? I don't know....but there was never a law in Georgia that PREVENTED people from using the excuse of "offering basic needs" to voters on line....so Georgia said "we will offer water, but those not deputized as election officials can not". No freaking deal. Mkaes snese. Do you want Eric Trump giving water to voters with a bottle with Donalds face on it and saying "vote trump and you will get free stuff"?

As for your legAL scholars....they are no different than the LEGAL scholars that say otherwise.

 

[BlindBoo]

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water..

Electioneering was already illegal within 150 feet of the building. If some one was caught electioneering while handing out water or food within the 150 they were breaking the law. Now the law assumes if you're handing out anything of value within that 150 feet including water, you're breaking the law regardless if you were electioneering or not.

 

[Care4all]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

Hey. You are better than that.

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water....what they tried to stop was water bottles saying "vote for Jane Doe" within 150 feet of a polling place.

I know it means little to you. I am OK with it. But your recent posts have made me feel differently about your agenda. I thought you were sincere...and I told you that....but for you to write this post? You are from from sincere.

I am disappointed. I know....you dont care about my disappointment. But I do.

good morning SC
Electioneering and campaigning within 150 yards from the polling place has been the law and illegal.... So what was the purpose of the new law?

And this new law, made it illegal for anyone to give out water or food to those waiting hours in line, not just those campaign workers.

That may not have been their intention, but it is how the law is written and interpreted by legal scholars.

It was written because it was noticed that people not affiliated with the poll were giving out water to people on line to vote during the Georgia senate re election. No big deal, but some people on line said they were being told they should vote one was over another. REP? DEM? I don't know....but there was never a law in Georgia that PREVENTED people from using the excuse of "offering basic needs" to voters on line....so Georgia said "we will offer water, but those not deputized as election officials can not". No freaking deal. Mkaes snese. Do you want Eric Trump giving water to voters with a bottle with Donalds face on it and saying "vote trump and you will get free stuff"?

As for your legAL scholars....they are no different than the LEGAL scholars that say otherwise.

Georgia did not mandate the water being given out in the law by polling places...it simply says THEY COULD do such. It left it up to the poll workers... If they are busy, they likely will not have a poll worker free to do such.... Or the polling place will have to pay extra for an additional poll worker to be a water boy, and buy bottles of water to set up outside at different intervals.... Its not like you can leave your place in line to walk to one of these water set up receptacles set up at the entry door...

Do you have a link for your claim that voters in line complained the water givers were campaigning and trying to convince voters to change their votes from who they planned to vote for....?

 

[SC Patriot]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

Hey. You are better than that.

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water....what they tried to stop was water bottles saying "vote for Jane Doe" within 150 feet of a polling place.

I know it means little to you. I am OK with it. But your recent posts have made me feel differently about your agenda. I thought you were sincere...and I told you that....but for you to write this post? You are from from sincere.

I am disappointed. I know....you dont care about my disappointment. But I do.

good morning SC
Electioneering and campaigning within 150 yards from the polling place has been the law and illegal.... So what was the purpose of the new law?

And this new law, made it illegal for anyone to give out water or food to those waiting hours in line, not just those campaign workers.

That may not have been their intention, but it is how the law is written and interpreted by legal scholars.

It was written because it was noticed that people not affiliated with the poll were giving out water to people on line to vote during the Georgia senate re election. No big deal, but some people on line said they were being told they should vote one was over another. REP? DEM? I don't know....but there was never a law in Georgia that PREVENTED people from using the excuse of "offering basic needs" to voters on line....so Georgia said "we will offer water, but those not deputized as election officials can not". No freaking deal. Mkaes snese. Do you want Eric Trump giving water to voters with a bottle with Donalds face on it and saying "vote trump and you will get free stuff"?

As for your legAL scholars....they are no different than the LEGAL scholars that say otherwise.

Georgia did not mandate the water being given out in the law by polling places...it simply says THEY COULD do such. It left it up to the poll workers... If they are busy, they likely will not have a poll worker free to do such.... Or the polling place will have to pay extra for an additional poll worker to be a water boy, and buy bottles of water to set up outside at different intervals.... Its not like you can leave your place in line to walk to one of these water set up receptacles set up at the entry door...

Do you have a link for your claim that voters in line complained the water givers were campaigning and trying to convince voters to change their votes?

That is unfair.
You are saying the people in polling places have the right to deny people water.
So you are saying people want to see people suffer.
How can I respond to that?
This is a debate that has assumptions on your part that people have evil intentions.
How can I debate that?
FYI....poll workers are of all backgrounds. Here in SC? They are Jewish, Catholic, Black, White, Asian.....no agenda. Just there to make sure the voters are comfortable. They attest to doing that.

All Georgia wanted was to make sure that non deputized individuals had the ability to electioneer within the 150 foot perimeter.

And it seems your response is "those deputized individuals will allow people to suffer dehydration"

Sorry ....but that is an insult to human compassion and an insult to my integrity.

Go for it if it makes you feel good. Me? No interest. Based on our interaction, You are a fraud and I am ashamed I reached out to you personally.

 

[Care4all]

The rest of this bill is outrageous... Cutting drop boxes, adding additional ridiculous requirements for an absentee ballot, making it where the secretary of state can no longer make decisions or run the free and fair election, giving legislators the right to void the citizen's vote and put in the legislator's own partisan electors....
Reducing early voting hours to a 5pm close, so those who work have no opportunity,

and even initially cancelled voting on Sundays so those blacks could no longer have Souls to the Polls.....

The entire bill was not to stop fraud.... It is blatantly, to disenfranchise legal citizens from voting....

 

[jc456]

NO it is NOT against the law to share the water bottle but what is against the law is what the below example that occurred in GA that caused this law.
People bringing their own water or they can using water fountains that provide FREE water.

As the law states, it would be illegal for my wife (a person) to provide me (an elector) her water bottle and I'd be at the mercy of a poll officer having to had set up a public receptacle.

that isn't what it says at all. but continue being the dumbass you are. I don't want to stand in your way of looking like an ass.

 

[Care4all]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

Hey. You are better than that.

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water....what they tried to stop was water bottles saying "vote for Jane Doe" within 150 feet of a polling place.

I know it means little to you. I am OK with it. But your recent posts have made me feel differently about your agenda. I thought you were sincere...and I told you that....but for you to write this post? You are from from sincere.

I am disappointed. I know....you dont care about my disappointment. But I do.

good morning SC
Electioneering and campaigning within 150 yards from the polling place has been the law and illegal.... So what was the purpose of the new law?

And this new law, made it illegal for anyone to give out water or food to those waiting hours in line, not just those campaign workers.

That may not have been their intention, but it is how the law is written and interpreted by legal scholars.

It was written because it was noticed that people not affiliated with the poll were giving out water to people on line to vote during the Georgia senate re election. No big deal, but some people on line said they were being told they should vote one was over another. REP? DEM? I don't know....but there was never a law in Georgia that PREVENTED people from using the excuse of "offering basic needs" to voters on line....so Georgia said "we will offer water, but those not deputized as election officials can not". No freaking deal. Mkaes snese. Do you want Eric Trump giving water to voters with a bottle with Donalds face on it and saying "vote trump and you will get free stuff"?

As for your legAL scholars....they are no different than the LEGAL scholars that say otherwise.

Georgia did not mandate the water being given out in the law by polling places...it simply says THEY COULD do such. It left it up to the poll workers... If they are busy, they likely will not have a poll worker free to do such.... Or the polling place will have to pay extra for an additional poll worker to be a water boy, and buy bottles of water to set up outside at different intervals.... Its not like you can leave your place in line to walk to one of these water set up receptacles set up at the entry door...

Do you have a link for your claim that voters in line complained the water givers were campaigning and trying to convince voters to change their votes?

That is unfair.
You are saying the people in polling places have the right to deny people water.
So you are saying people want to see people suffer.
How can I respond to that?
This is a debate that has assumptions on your part that people have evil intentions.
How can I debate that?
FYI....poll workers are of all backgrounds. Here in SC? They are Jewish, Catholic, Black, White, Asian.....no agenda. Just there to make sure the voters are comfortable. They attest to doing that.

All Georgia wanted was to make sure that non deputized individuals had the ability to electioneer within the 150 foot perimeter.

And it seems your response is "those deputized individuals will allow people to suffer dehydration"

Sorry ....but that is an insult to human compassion and an insult to my integrity.

Go for it if it makes you feel good. Me? No interest. Based on our interaction, You are a fraud and I am ashamed I reached out to you personally.

Are you saying every polling place is going to buy bottled water by the case and store them at each polling place just in case they end up having a long line with hours of wait?

The law states NO ONE can pass out water or food 150 ft from poll.... A misdemeanor if anyone does.

 

[SC Patriot]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

Hey. You are better than that.

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water....what they tried to stop was water bottles saying "vote for Jane Doe" within 150 feet of a polling place.

I know it means little to you. I am OK with it. But your recent posts have made me feel differently about your agenda. I thought you were sincere...and I told you that....but for you to write this post? You are from from sincere.

I am disappointed. I know....you dont care about my disappointment. But I do.

good morning SC
Electioneering and campaigning within 150 yards from the polling place has been the law and illegal.... So what was the purpose of the new law?

And this new law, made it illegal for anyone to give out water or food to those waiting hours in line, not just those campaign workers.

That may not have been their intention, but it is how the law is written and interpreted by legal scholars.

It was written because it was noticed that people not affiliated with the poll were giving out water to people on line to vote during the Georgia senate re election. No big deal, but some people on line said they were being told they should vote one was over another. REP? DEM? I don't know....but there was never a law in Georgia that PREVENTED people from using the excuse of "offering basic needs" to voters on line....so Georgia said "we will offer water, but those not deputized as election officials can not". No freaking deal. Mkaes snese. Do you want Eric Trump giving water to voters with a bottle with Donalds face on it and saying "vote trump and you will get free stuff"?

As for your legAL scholars....they are no different than the LEGAL scholars that say otherwise.

Georgia did not mandate the water being given out in the law by polling places...it simply says THEY COULD do such. It left it up to the poll workers... If they are busy, they likely will not have a poll worker free to do such.... Or the polling place will have to pay extra for an additional poll worker to be a water boy, and buy bottles of water to set up outside at different intervals.... Its not like you can leave your place in line to walk to one of these water set up receptacles set up at the entry door...

Do you have a link for your claim that voters in line complained the water givers were campaigning and trying to convince voters to change their votes?

That is unfair.
You are saying the people in polling places have the right to deny people water.
So you are saying people want to see people suffer.
How can I respond to that?
This is a debate that has assumptions on your part that people have evil intentions.
How can I debate that?
FYI....poll workers are of all backgrounds. Here in SC? They are Jewish, Catholic, Black, White, Asian.....no agenda. Just there to make sure the voters are comfortable. They attest to doing that.

All Georgia wanted was to make sure that non deputized individuals had the ability to electioneer within the 150 foot perimeter.

And it seems your response is "those deputized individuals will allow people to suffer dehydration"

Sorry ....but that is an insult to human compassion and an insult to my integrity.

Go for it if it makes you feel good. Me? No interest. Based on our interaction, You are a fraud and I am ashamed I reached out to you personally.

Are you saying every polling place is going to buy bottled water by the case and store them at each polling place just in case they end up having a long line with hours of wait?

The law states NO ONE can pass out water or food 150 ft from poll.... A misdemeanor if anyone does.

Last response to you. Out of respect.
Then I am done with you. You fooled me and I accept responsibility for it. My fault. Not yours. I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, I did you. I blew it.

he law states no one NOT affiliated with the polling station can interact with a potential voter within 150 feet. Most polling stations have water fountains. People also have the right to bring their own water bottle...

You know something? Enough with this childish gibberish.

Either you know the meaning of the law or you are too stupid to know it. Based on your posts, I believe you know the meaning of the law and you just want to debate.

I am not interested in this anymore.

Believe what you want.

 

[jc456]

the election boards of each jurisdiction,,,

And who do you think the "election boards of each jurisdiction" are?

The GOVERNMENT

i believe the intent is for the polling place to provide the water rather than candidates. Candidates handing out water looks like a bribe for a vote. It's the intent of the law. your normal demfok self simply ignores that piece and instantly you turn into ass holes.

 

[jc456]

Are you saying every polling place is going to buy bottled water by the case and store them at each polling place just in case they end up having a long line with hours of wait?

The law states NO ONE can pass out water or food 150 ft from poll.... A misdemeanor if anyone does.

yep, if water is handed out, that is the procedure. why do you think it should be different? just curious. bribes are illegal at polling places. It's the law. You know that right?

And yes, the polling place can hand out water and coffee, even donuts if they choose to.

demofks really don't have a fking brain.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The lies about this law are growing. Communist democrats are just lying with total disregard as to the monumental capacity for lies.

 

[struth]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

. . . and YOU must think folks are STOOPID.

Handing out water is just a pretense. Do you honestly think that they just say, hey, you thirsty? And that is all?

Do you think republican campaigners handing out water to a long voting line of black democratic leaning voters is going to convince them to vote for a republican, and change the voter's mind about the candidate that they've been dog headedly standing in line for 5 hours, to vote for.....?

The whole notion just seems ridiculous to me...

What does race have to do with anything? With that said....the law also address long voting lines, and allows a mean to cut down the lines...prior to the law, the State coudn't do anything until AFTER the fact...now, in realtime. if the line is over a hour long waiting, the State can jump in and add more voting booths, and open more polling stations.

GA's law, as it relates to give outs, is no different then a number of other states, including NY, and MInn:

No one except an election official or an individual who is waiting to register or to vote or an individual who is conducting exit polling shall stand within 100 feet of the building in which a polling place is located. Minn. Stat. § 204C.06

Any person who…in respect of any election during the hours of voting…gives or provides, or causes to be given or provided, or shall pay, wholly or in part, for any meat, drink, tobacco, refreshment or provision to or for any person, other than [poll workers and other voting officials], except any such meat, drink, tobacco, refreshment or provision having a retail value of less than one dollar, which is given or provided to any person in a polling place without any identification of the person or entity supplying such provisions, is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. N.Y. Elec. Law § 17-140

The Minn. law, which was far more reaching then the GA law was challenged in Court...the Supreme Court upheld the law and wrote: We see no basis for rejecting Minnesota’s determination that some forms of advocacy should be excluded from the polling place, to set it aside as an island of calm in which voters can peacefully contemplate their choices. . . . Casting a vote is a weighty civic act, akin to a jury’s return of a verdict, or a representative’s vote on a piece of legislation. It is a time for choosing, not campaigning. The State may reasonably decide that the interior of the polling place should reflect that distinction.
Minn. Voters Alliance v. Mansky it was a 7-2 decision

I don't recall the left claiming some sort of Jim Crow nonsense when these laws were created by Dem legislatures.....in blue states....why?

 

[struth]

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water..

Electioneering was already illegal within 150 feet of the building. If some one was caught electioneering while handing out water or food within the 150 they were breaking the law. Now the law assumes if you're handing out anything of value within that 150 feet including water, you're breaking the law regardless if you were electioneering or not.

that's the same in other states as well...so what's the big deal? Why are you all making this faux outrage about GA when states like NY and MInn do the same thing?

 

[struth]

I suffer from a disability that requires me to constantly be drinking water at all times or I will get a kidney stone.

I take water with me everywhere.

Since this whole pandemic started and these mask mandates have started? It has been a particular pain in the ass.

I really don't have any sympathy. . . none at all for folks bitching about not letting campaigns give them water. It is not that damn hard to take a water bottle with you. It really isn't.

It is stupid and silly.

If states want to prohibit the passing out of food and water by volunteers to keep campaigns from politicking around the polls? That is just fine.

Anyone that is bitching about it is a disingenuous partisan hack.

Fyi, the ***** was not about campaigns giving water to people who have to spend hours in line, waiting to vote.

Its been illegal for campaigns to campaign in the voter lines or within 150 of the polling place for a while....

The ***** is about making it illegal for anyone to hand out water to them.....

Maybe this was not the legislature's intention, but it is what the new law states.

Hey. You are better than that.

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water....what they tried to stop was water bottles saying "vote for Jane Doe" within 150 feet of a polling place.

I know it means little to you. I am OK with it. But your recent posts have made me feel differently about your agenda. I thought you were sincere...and I told you that....but for you to write this post? You are from from sincere.

I am disappointed. I know....you dont care about my disappointment. But I do.

good morning SC
Electioneering and campaigning within 150 yards from the polling place has been the law and illegal.... So what was the purpose of the new law?

And this new law, made it illegal for anyone to give out water or food to those waiting hours in line, not just those campaign workers.

That may not have been their intention, but it is how the law is written and interpreted by legal scholars.

It was written because it was noticed that people not affiliated with the poll were giving out water to people on line to vote during the Georgia senate re election. No big deal, but some people on line said they were being told they should vote one was over another. REP? DEM? I don't know....but there was never a law in Georgia that PREVENTED people from using the excuse of "offering basic needs" to voters on line....so Georgia said "we will offer water, but those not deputized as election officials can not". No freaking deal. Mkaes snese. Do you want Eric Trump giving water to voters with a bottle with Donalds face on it and saying "vote trump and you will get free stuff"?

As for your legAL scholars....they are no different than the LEGAL scholars that say otherwise.

Georgia did not mandate the water being given out in the law by polling places...it simply says THEY COULD do such. It left it up to the poll workers... If they are busy, they likely will not have a poll worker free to do such.... Or the polling place will have to pay extra for an additional poll worker to be a water boy, and buy bottles of water to set up outside at different intervals.... Its not like you can leave your place in line to walk to one of these water set up receptacles set up at the entry door...

Do you have a link for your claim that voters in line complained the water givers were campaigning and trying to convince voters to change their votes?

That is unfair.
You are saying the people in polling places have the right to deny people water.
So you are saying people want to see people suffer.
How can I respond to that?
This is a debate that has assumptions on your part that people have evil intentions.
How can I debate that?
FYI....poll workers are of all backgrounds. Here in SC? They are Jewish, Catholic, Black, White, Asian.....no agenda. Just there to make sure the voters are comfortable. They attest to doing that.

All Georgia wanted was to make sure that non deputized individuals had the ability to electioneer within the 150 foot perimeter.

And it seems your response is "those deputized individuals will allow people to suffer dehydration"

Sorry ....but that is an insult to human compassion and an insult to my integrity.

Go for it if it makes you feel good. Me? No interest. Based on our interaction, You are a fraud and I am ashamed I reached out to you personally.

Are you saying every polling place is going to buy bottled water by the case and store them at each polling place just in case they end up having a long line with hours of wait?

The law states NO ONE can pass out water or food 150 ft from poll.... A misdemeanor if anyone does.

The law allows for polling station volunteers to make them available for anyone within that 150feet...they don't have to buy it, in fact YOU, who apparently are so concerned about the people having water, are free to donate it.

I challenge you to do that...if you don't, I'll know this is just faux outrage on your part

 

[SC Patriot]

They made it illegal for someone being allowed to electioneer by offering something of value. The law allowed for deputized polling officials to offer water..

Electioneering was already illegal within 150 feet of the building. If some one was caught electioneering while handing out water or food within the 150 they were breaking the law. Now the law assumes if you're handing out anything of value within that 150 feet including water, you're breaking the law regardless if you were electioneering or not.

that's the same in other states as well...so what's the big deal? Why are you all making this faux outrage about GA when states like NY and MInn do the same thing?

Why? Becuase....beacuse....beacuse.....TRUMP! RUSSIA! COVID!......Hannity! Carlson!.....and WATERGATE!.

Thats why.

 

[my2¢]

that isn't what it says at all. but continue being the dumbass you are. I don't want to stand in your way of looking like an ass.

I've posted the full section of the law in the 3rd post of this thread to back my opinion. You had choice to back your opinion or to name call. Your choice was to shoot blanks.

 

[BlindBoo]

Why are you all making this faux outrage

IMO because people who are incensed about something are more likely to be motivated to vote. Fox News proved that in 2010.