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2021-03-31 Home Front: Politix
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Comparing Georgia's new voting law to Jim Crow is a disgusting smear
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[NYPOST] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
is so committed to bipartisan cooperation and fact-based governance that he has launched an ignorant and incendiary attack on the new Georgia voting law. Biden says the legislation is "Jim Crow in the 21st century" and an "un-American law to deny people the right to vote."
It is now practically mandatory for Democrats to launch this kind of unhinged broadside. Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
 ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
, accusing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp of having stolen his 2018 election victory over Democratic activist Stacey Abrams
...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too...
(a poisonous myth), tweeted, "The Republican who is sitting in Stacey Abrams’ chair just signed a despicable voter-suppression bill into law to take Georgia back to Jim Crow."
Anyone making this charge in good faith either doesn’t understand the hideousness of the Jim Crow regime or the provisions of the Georgia law.
The old Jim Crow was billy clubs and firehoses; the alleged new Jim Crow is asking people to write a driver’s-license number on their absentee-ballot envelopes.
The old Jim Crow was poll taxes; the new Jim Crow is expanding weekend voting.
The old Jim Crow was disenfranchising voters en masse based on their race; the new Jim Crow is limiting ballot drop boxes to places they can’t be tampered with.
It is hard to believe that one real voter is going to be kept from voting by the new rules.
To better ensure the security of absentee ballots, the law requires that voters provide a driver’s-license or state-ID number to apply for a ballot and one of those numbers (or the last four digits of a Social Security number) when returning the ballot.
The law narrows the window for requesting absentee ballots, although it still allows plenty of time. A voter can request a ballot as early as 11 weeks before and as late as 11 days before an election; any later risks the ballot not being delivered in time.
Ballot drop boxes were a pandemic-era innovation in Georgia. The law keeps them, while limiting their location to early-voting sites.
After getting blowback over proposed limits on weekend early voting, when black churches run their "souls-to-the-polls" events, Georgia politicians expanded the potential for weekend voting.
The law gives the state election board more authority to take over local election operations, but there is no doubt that election officials in Fulton County, where metro Atlanta is located and long lines at the polls are common, have been incompetent.
Perhaps most controversially, it bans people from distributing food or drink to voters standing in line, an effort to keep partisans from trying to sway voters near polling places. But poll workers can provide food and drink for general use.
The deeper point is that in the contemporary United States, with such wide and ready access to the ballot, changes in the rules or process around the edges don’t disenfranchise people.
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