A federal judge on Friday narrowed a section of Georgia election law that banned the practice of handing out food and water to voters waiting in line to cast ballots, as well as halted enforcement of a requirement that voters put their birth dates on the outer envelope of their ballots.

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    1 year ago

    That’s the thing which seems so barbaric to me. I’m in a state with 100% mail-in ballots, and I’ve never stood in a line to vote. Neither has anyone else in my state since mail-in became the standard.

    When turnout is really, really high, there might be, like, four people ahead of me if I’ve procrastinated and missed the mail-in date and have to use a ballot drop-box.

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      1 year ago

      But you see letting people vote is woke or communist, or whatever word Bingo the right has decided.

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        It’s duckspeak, and the fact that it’s so effective is horrifying. They go around making literally meaningless word-like noises - not one of them could coherently define either “woke” or “communist” if you offered them a million dollars to do it - and yet they squawk both words endlessly.

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      And I’m in a state where I never really waited in line even before mail in voting was expanded.

      My voting place has always been the nearby elementary school, and I usually go at peak time, on my way to or from work. Yes, admittedly I’ve had to wait outside the classroom for a minute or two, but that’s not the kind of line we’re talking about

      Actually, it’s always been so easy to vote, that I usually Fido t bother with all the effort to find the mail in ballot and take it all the way to a mailbox