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.