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Georgia wants to make it illegal to give food and water to voters waiting in line

Georgia wants to make it illegal to give food and water to voters waiting in line

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/09/facebook-posts/georgia-bill-would-ban-giving-food-water-voters-li/

This actually made me chuckle. This is straight out of a bad dystopian movie, one that you put on when you have nothing else to watch and you fall asleep halfway through.

Republicans are making sure voting is as hard as possible. They are making the lines longer. And now? They want to make it a misdemeanor to give grandma waiting in the huge line that THEY caused some water.

Are you for real?

I can't wait for the mental gymnastics this forum rightwingers will go through to justify this.


It’s completely cuckoo.

Every other country is trying to make voting easier. Bizarre.

And I don’t know how they can even ban handing people a bottle of water. How the hell do you enforce that?


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Or that it's socialism giving hand-outs to people who didn't work for it.


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What’s the real reason they want to ban it? Surely people will just carry a bag with them and from it???


@shavixmir said
What’s the real reason they want to ban it? Surely people will just carry a bag with them and from it???
Stats from the last several elections have found that the more people who vote in an election, the more likely the result will fall for the Democrats.

So, naturally, Republicans would like to see to it that only their white, inbred base votes.



Existing Georgia law states that it is a crime to give gifts to voters.

So they are backing an existing law, perhaps with a bit too much enthusiasm??

water is a gift?? Hmmmm



@zahlanzi said
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/09/facebook-posts/georgia-bill-would-ban-giving-food-water-voters-li/

This actually made me chuckle. This is straight out of a bad dystopian movie, one that you put on when you have nothing else to watch and you fall asleep halfway through.

Republicans are making sure voting is as hard as possible. They are making the line ...[text shortened]... ?

I can't wait for the mental gymnastics this forum rightwingers will go through to justify this.
It makes sense.
Eating a sandwich and drinking water while standing in line waiting to vote is voter fraud !!
Didn't you know that ??? 😛


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Free oxygen ??
That's radical left Socialism !! 😲

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@suzianne said
Stats from the last several elections have found that the more people who vote in an election, the more likely the result will fall for the Democrats.

So, naturally, Republicans would like to see to it that only their white, inbred base votes.
It's been pretty much accepted that the conservative base is shrinking while the liberal base is expanding.
I've read articles (don't ask me for the link, please) that basically attest to this.
Which is why voter suppression techniques have been mostly the domain of the GOP rather than the Dems.

Mail-in ballots, that came into prominence because of COVID, raised red flags all over the place for the Republicans.
Not because they were prone to voter fraud.
But rather because they effectively nullified the voter suppression tactics that the GOP have been practicing.



@mghrn55 said
It's been pretty much accepted that the conservative base is shrinking while the liberal base is expanding.
I've read articles (don't ask me for the link, please) that basically attest to this.
Which is why voter suppression techniques have been mostly the domain of the GOP rather than the Dems.

Mail-in ballots, that came into prominence because of COVID, raised red flag ...[text shortened]... because they effectively nullified the voter suppression tactics that the GOP have been practicing.
“Liberal”.
US democrats aren’t anywhere near left-wing.
Moving away from the extremist GOP can’t be hard to do. There’s very little to the right of them and no sanity to be found.