Georgia Republipigs pass Jim Crow 2.0

Originally posted by: Boilerman

To clarify, one is not allowed to bribe homeless people with food and water.  How silly.

 

The next thing you know, Republicans will create a law making it illegal to bribe drunks with whiskey.  Those assholes.


The law says nothing about "bribing" anyone, nor does it refer to homeless people.

 

But feel free to make shit up. You watch Fox News for hours every day, slack-jawed and drooling. Making shit up is what they do.

Did pj read?  Local counties establish the number of polling places & machines, not the state. 

Other than broad statements, kevin still can't show the discrimination. 

Originally posted by: tom

Did pj read?  Local counties establish the number of polling places & machines, not the state. 

Other than broad statements, kevin still can't show the discrimination. 


Poor, poor Tommie-poo. He just can't understand. Or maybe he just doesn't want to.

Soon the only sports Republicans will be able to watch is Badminton.  Don't forget they are already boycotting NASCAR because they banned the confederate flag from their venues.  Funny how Republicans suddenly aren't for corporate free speech.  

Edited on Apr 6, 2021 3:47pm

Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis

The law says nothing about "bribing" anyone, nor does it refer to homeless people.

 

But feel free to make shit up. You watch Fox News for hours every day, slack-jawed and drooling. Making shit up is what they do.


So if the law doesn't say anything about the color of one's skin, then it can't be racist given your judgement standards.

 

Certainly homeless will flock to the polls for free food and drink.  Anyone with a brain knows this.

Originally posted by: Boilerman

So if the law doesn't say anything about the color of one's skin, then it can't be racist given your judgement standards.

 

Certainly homeless will flock to the polls for free food and drink.  Anyone with a brain knows this.


You're babbling again.

Originally posted by: Mark

Soon the only sports Republicans will be able to watch is Badminton.  Don't forget they are already boycotting NSCAR because they banned the confederate flag from their venues.  Funny how Republicans suddenly aren't for cooperate free speech.  


This is good news! Think of how much more pleasant sporting events will be, cleansed of RepubliQs!

 

I can only hope that they get similarly exercised about movie theaters, restaurants, etc.

202 Section 18 provides for the remedy of any voter standing in line for more than an hour. The superintendent needs to decrease the number of voters to no more than 2000 in any precinct that has a voter waiting in line for more than an hour. They can also increase the number of voting machines. These changes to take effect at least 60 days prior to another election. Seems like that would eliminate the need for distributing food and beverage to those standing in line.

Section 25 seeminly provides for the same identifications for application to vote by mail as registering to vote. Admittedly, a drivers license or state ID is the most convenient, but other forms of identification are allowed. I don't see how this adversely affects only black democrat voters.

202 does not allow any person or persons to overturn an election. That's just QAcrat conspiracy nonsense.

Originally posted by: Boilerman

So if the law doesn't say anything about the color of one's skin, then it can't be racist given your judgement standards.

 

Certainly homeless will flock to the polls for free food and drink.  Anyone with a brain knows this.


They will?  Or they did?  Surely you can point to the evidence of that dynamic from the last election. ...  Cause you have a brain.

 

The good news is shit like this has a tendency to backfire.   Repuiblicans are pissing off people who might have stayed home otherwise.   And in the meantime the urban populations with liberal voters keep growing...and the inbred shitkickers leftover from Jim Crowe keep dying off in the rural areas....many because they think COVID was a liberal hoax.   

 

Georgia is moving blue...so is Arizona and even Texas.    

Originally posted by: PackerBackerAZ

202 Section 18 provides for the remedy of any voter standing in line for more than an hour. The superintendent needs to decrease the number of voters to no more than 2000 in any precinct that has a voter waiting in line for more than an hour. They can also increase the number of voting machines. These changes to take effect at least 60 days prior to another election. Seems like that would eliminate the need for distributing food and beverage to those standing in line.

Section 25 seeminly provides for the same identifications for application to vote by mail as registering to vote. Admittedly, a drivers license or state ID is the most convenient, but other forms of identification are allowed. I don't see how this adversely affects only black democrat voters.

202 does not allow any person or persons to overturn an election. That's just QAcrat conspiracy nonsense.


Uh, dose of reality for you...the bill explicitly allows Republican officials to overturn the results of an election at the county level; it also allows the Republican state legislature to decree who won the election, regardless of the actual vote count. (Just like Trump's lawyers tried feverishly to do last year.) Georgia's secretary of state certified the results of the election. So the bill strips him of that power, as punishment for telling the truth.

 

The new, more onerous voting requirements of course don't affect only Black voters, but they affect them disproportionately. This is an obvious and none-too-subtle distinction that the RepubliQs pretend doesn't exist. Here's the metric: if a given measure keeps 1,000 people from voting (for example), and 900 of those voters are Black, then the measure is discriminatory.

 

But y'know what? Let's say that it affects all races equally. It still favors the RepubliQ party, because as the Orange God himself said, if voter turnout increases, "The Republican party would never win another election." Therefore, to the RepubliQ party, voter suppression is an inherently good thing even if it isn't racially targeted.

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