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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Mon Mar 1, 2021, 07:26 PM Mar 2021

🚨ALERT: Georgia House PASSES voter suppression bill #HB531.

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🚨ALERT: Georgia House PASSES voter suppression bill #HB531. The bill aims to instate new voter ID rules and limit ballot drop boxes, absentee ballots and Sunday voting, targeting the popular GOTV event organized by Black churches, “Souls to the Polls."

Georgia House Passes Voter Suppression Bill
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🚨ALERT: Georgia House PASSES voter suppression bill #HB531. (Original Post) soothsayer Mar 2021 OP

Paging Mr. Elias! leftieNanner Mar 2021 #1

Fine! Someone on TV pointed out Black churches will just move Souls to the Polls to Saturday. Duh. LaMouffette Mar 2021 #2

The Republican grip on GA is slipping fast. KentuckyWoman Mar 2021 #4

I agree, Abrams and others in Georgia are three times smarter Blue_true Mar 2021 #7

Bastards! Clearly un-democratic. Clearly OPPOSED to our chosen form of government. Laelth Mar 2021 #3

They have been around since the beginning. LastDemocratInSC Mar 2021 #6

Pass HB1 asap vercetti2021 Mar 2021 #5

It won't pass the Senate. WarGamer Mar 2021 #9

I predicted this WarGamer Mar 2021 #8

MSM should get hold to Sen.Tim Scott and get him to comment oasis Mar 2021 #10

Outside BGBD Mar 2021 #11

Warnock reelection was moonscape Mar 2021 #12

Think of it as a whole new incentive, one that's lighting a fire crickets Mar 2021 #13

leftieNanner

(16,168 posts)

1. Paging Mr. Elias!

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Mon Mar 1, 2021, 07:31 PM

Mar 2021

White Courtesy Phone please.

This will surely be challenged.

LaMouffette

(2,661 posts)

2. Fine! Someone on TV pointed out Black churches will just move Souls to the Polls to Saturday. Duh.

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Mon Mar 1, 2021, 07:36 PM

Mar 2021

After 2020, I have complete faith in Georgia Dems, especially with Stacey Abrams leading the way.

They will find a way around every obstacle the Repubs dare to put in their way.

Thank you again, Georgia Democrats!!!

KentuckyWoman

(7,417 posts)

4. The Republican grip on GA is slipping fast.

Reply to LaMouffette (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 1, 2021, 07:45 PM

Mar 2021

Nearly every Republican in local and state positions can expect a hard, expensive fight to keep their job.

And not just GA. Even places like Montana are seeing a rise in potential candidates and committees.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

7. I agree, Abrams and others in Georgia are three times smarter

Reply to LaMouffette (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 12:28 AM

Mar 2021

than those anti-democracy thugs.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

3. Bastards! Clearly un-democratic. Clearly OPPOSED to our chosen form of government.

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Mon Mar 1, 2021, 07:36 PM

Mar 2021

Any person who wants to make it HARDER for Americans to vote is anathema to our system of government and is, ultimately, a traitor to this nation.

-Laelth

LastDemocratInSC

(4,250 posts)

6. They have been around since the beginning.

Reply to Laelth (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 1, 2021, 11:08 PM

Mar 2021

Royalists, seeking a strongman to ease the burden of thinking even if others are injured by that approach.

vercetti2021

(10,481 posts)

5. Pass HB1 asap

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Mon Mar 1, 2021, 08:02 PM

Mar 2021

Sooner we can get this out there the better our rights will be

WarGamer

(18,859 posts)

9. It won't pass the Senate.

Reply to vercetti2021 (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 12:45 AM

Mar 2021

and might be found unconstitutional by Barf, Handmaiden, Good Hair, Scalito, Sleepy and Roberts.

WarGamer

(18,859 posts)

8. I predicted this

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 12:44 AM

Mar 2021

The GOP knows they lost in 2020, fair and square.

They blame it on 100% mail-in ballots and extended voting dates.

They're closing those exceptions now.

And they've got Kegger, Goodhair, Handmaiden, Scalito, Sleepy and Roberts backing them up...

Expect tighter voting rules in '22 and '24...

Work harder to compensate.

oasis

(53,978 posts)

10. MSM should get hold to Sen.Tim Scott and get him to comment

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 12:53 AM

Mar 2021

on the GOP 's blatant suppression of the black vote.

BGBD

(3,282 posts)

11. Outside

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 01:02 AM

Mar 2021

Of this weird 2020 election, Republicans were the ones you'd expect to use vote my mail and absentee voting more....they will end up hurting themselves with these knee-jerk bills.

moonscape

(5,796 posts)

12. Warnock reelection was

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 01:02 AM

Mar 2021

going to be tight without this. A whole new layer of worry.

crickets

(26,168 posts)

13. Think of it as a whole new incentive, one that's lighting a fire

Reply to moonscape (Reply #12)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 01:13 AM

Mar 2021

under the people who are proud he got elected and determined to keep him there.

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