Now do Stacy Abrams. Or Hillary Clinton. Or our Press Sec. Or...
Election Night 2022 Thread
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Now do Stacy Abrams. Or Hillary Clinton. Or our Press Sec. Or...
If you say it enough and really loud it has to be true! Isn't that how Trump sells his phony stories?
Same for me. I was in and out in about 5 minutes. However, for many, especially in the South, it isn't so easy. I don't have beef with voter ID laws so long as the state doesn't put undue burden on one seeking to secure such state sponsored ID. But there is a lot going on the intent of which is to make voting more difficult. For example, why oppose voting by mail? There is no reason to think it is not a secure way to cast a ballot. Why must we have "election day" rather than an "election week" or even and election month? Why not have Saturday and Sunday polling open?
The GOP plan to disenfranchise is well documented and the GOP politicians won't deny it.
Southern U.S. states have closed 1,200 polling places in recent years: rights group | Reuters
Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state | CNN Politics
Not everyone has the easy access to the ballot box as you and I.
affluent white and red districts have no problem with voting, this is shocking to no one.
Under the current conditions it should have been a 1994 /2010 type of wave imo,especially with red and purple states like PA,GA and AZ deciding the Senate.
But it is unaddressed, and I do wonder if many GOP voters really think that the voter suppression complaints simply boil down to an objection to an otherwise reasonable request that one shows ID when showing up to vote.
Could mean there are still a lot of shenanigans going on.
A popular socialist once said it's not who votes, but who counts the votes who counts . Sounds good but insinuates that republican representatives aren't doing the same thing if not better . And don't forget all the soldiers who did their bit to uphold a right to vote.
Meanwhile, it was nifty to be able to download my ballot from a gov website to save me a trip back to home county. My ballot was mailed to me but I've not been back enough to receive it. To find it I just entered my vital info to the website and shazam, there it was. Then I was given option to mark it up with the mouse, before printing, or print first and mark with a pen. Then I signed a paper to be included with the ballot, and put into a plain envelope given by the librarians who sort of doubled as election personnel. They also gave out little "I voted" stickers like candy.
It all seems well and good but any skeptic with a criminal mind could find flaws with this, it being an invariably blue state with currently a blue sec of state, appointed by a blue gov.
For one, it appears that 100% of persons on active voter roles are sent ballots. Thus, potentially everyone is an absentee voter through the mail. Next, I didn't need ID to get my ballot, just some vitals that almost anyone could guess being just a little acquainted with me. I did sign a kind of cover letter, but it's not attached to the ballot. The drop box was hefty and secure, but no one watching the drops at the time I dropped. Later, at about 5 PM it appeared two election workers were getting ready to take a batch to a central counting facility. It also appeared there was one watcher purposely observing them.
So you can see how there could be multiple attack vectors in this state. It was comforting that the gov website supposedly does a cancellation of any prior existing ballot, once I move past a certain point in the online process. But still, it appears to me that criminal minds could find a way to keep this state ever-blue.
I respectfully disagree. The polarization in politics today is beyond anything we saw in 1994, or even as late as 2010. Democrats are going to vote blue even if its the end of the world, and caused directly by the left. Republicans are going to do likewise no matter how bad Rs are. The fight is over a few points of independents.