I could be convinced if I could find the part that restricts the right to vote for anyone. Can you help me out? What’s the worst part of this law?
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Why is Fulton County going from 38 drop boxes where votes can be submitted to 8? What’s in Fulton County…oh yeah Atlanta!
Yep.
There was extensive media coverage of initial Republican proposals to eliminate or sharply reduce early voting on Sundays, when some Black churchgoers participate in “souls to the polls” voting drives. However, these proposals did not make it into the final bill Kemp signed – which actually ends up expanding early voting in many counties for primaries and general elections. Runoffs are a different story, which we’ll get to in a moment.
Under the weekend provisions of the previous law counties had to open for early voting on only one Saturday during primaries and general elections, from 9 am to 4 pm; Sundays were not mentioned. Under the new law, two Saturdays of early voting are mandatory – from 9 am to 5 pm at minimum and from 7 am to 7 pm if counties desire – and two Sundays are explicitly made optional.
I still don’t know what the “BIG LIE” is. We’re far enough into this to hit on some bullet points as to the Jim Crow parts of this law. What’s the most Jim Crow-ish part?
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They lessened the hours that you can early vote. They left Sunday voting up to each county and they can determine if they want it.
“These new strict rules on early voting hours are likely to curtail voting access for Georgians who work daytime hours or have less flexible schedules and who may be unable to return an absentee ballot.
The provision requires counties to hold early voting during weekday working hours — 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. — and says it may be held for longer but may not take place before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. on those days. The early voting period will begin four weeks before an election. The previous iteration of the law called only for early voting during “normal business hours” and left it up to counties to determine those hours.
The provision also adds a second required Saturday of early voting (the previous law required only one), which will increase access to early voting in most of the state’s rural counties, where election administrators have often been short-staffed and have offered fewer hours of early voting. Most larger counties in the state already offered multiple weekend days of early voting.
The law doesn’t require the availability of early voting on Sundays, which means that counties can choose whether to open for early voting on up to two Sundays before an election.
Counties that choose not to open on Sundays would be limiting ballot access for parishioners at Black churches that have often organized parishioners to vote after Sunday services.”
So Fulton county gets to decide for Fulton county? And that counts as Jim Crow?
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Georgia limited the amount of drop boxes and required that those boxes are inside of government buildings.
Why? How many ballot boxes were broken into during the election?
Why is Fulton County going from 38 drop boxes for votes to 8?
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Why have the choice at all? They should require that all counties have voting available on weekends.
What is special about Sunday? We all know the answer
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I’m still not seeing a single thing in here that would prevent any black person from voting.
Somebody help.
And this one is where Kemp is misleading people by stating drop boxes were never in the law but only a temporary rule.
BS…the new law limits them in a way that disproportionately impacts urban Dem areas over rural GOP areas.
And they reduced the drop times from 24 hours to 12.
For no reason as drop boxes were under 24 hour video surveillance.
Remember when conservatives hated unnecessary regulations?
Why is Fulton County going to go from 38 drop boxes for votes to 8?
Simple security measures.
Easy to keep a camera on them…no tampering or dumping.
Tomahawk chop…is that still done at Fulton County Stadium?
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There were already cameras on the 38 drop boxes in Fulton County.
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This is not a change from the previous COVID early voting rules.
Sundays were never mentioned as early voting hours in previous regulations.
This one you are wrong on.
Maybe they shouldn’t. But that doesn’t make it Jim Crow. Being a bad law does not mean it’s a Jim Crow Law. Should this be enough to have MLB and Coke pee their pants? Is this really going to prevent a motivated black person from voting? More than it would prevent a motivated white privileged person from voting? How so?
Why is Fulton County going from 38 drop boxes for votes to 8?
It makes it harder for them to do so for no reason.
As a conservative you ought to be against unnecessary and burdensome rules.
How many were tampered with in 2020?
Reply number 55. And I still nothing on the Jim Crow part of the law.
Any day now folks.
