Enforcing the no-water provision seems like it's going to be problematic:

[kpete]

Ted Lieu

Dear @GovKemp: Next year, Congressman @RubenGallego and I are going to provide water to GA voters waiting in lines caused by your voter suppression law. My sense is many, many people will be providing water to voters. Because your law is unAmerican and insane. twitter.com/rubengallego/s…

Ruben Gallego

Well guess I am gonna get arrested to protest this stupid law.

Ruben Gallego
I call shotgun!

Rep. Eric Swalwell
Ted, do you and @RubenGallego have room for one more?

Michael Beschloss

New Georgia law, among other things, makes it a criminal offense to bring food and/or water to voters waiting in line.
Georgia Governor is signing this travesty on anniversary of culmination of historic Selma to Montgomery March of 1965.

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[dsc]

1. There should be formed immediately a church in GA whose sole tenet is that

they should feed and water those who are voting and dare GA to enforce this law in the teeth of the religious liberty.

[Retrograde]

5. IIRC Jesus said something about giving drink to the thirsty

It was one of the Corporal Works of Mercy that I was taught in Catholic school way back when - along with sheltering the homeless and comforting the sick.

[Aristus]

15. The Church Of The Water Of Life.

Or something like that. Fuck with this church and find out what happens...

[fescuerescue]

2. Can voters bring their own water?

This whole thing is weird.

I can't say that I'v ever seen water delivered in an election line, nor been in line so long that I needed rations delivered.

So rather than outlawing water deliveries....Maybe just make the lines shorter?

[TheBlackAdder]

3. No state in this nation should have lines where water, food and bathroon breaks are required. NONE!

[fescuerescue]

6. Yea - That's what I'm saying!

this is crazy

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Yep. I'm in NJ and over my 40 years of voting, the longest line I've been in was an hour.

.

Over the past 20 years, it's been between 5-10 minutes. And this past year, it was mail-in.

My town has around 30 poling sites, each broken down to districts and last name ranges, like A-K, L-Z.

They are staffed with one to two dozen poll workers each.

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[moonscape]

18. My longest in 50 years was

about 30 min and that was a long time ago. This includes NYC where I first voted, and the last 40 on the CA Central Coast.

I’m filled with rage that anyone has to wait longer than an hour, and admiration and respect for the determined souls who do it election after election.

[Retrograde]

7. "Maybe just make the lines shorter?"

Silly person, that would make voting easier, which is entirely the opposite of what they're trying to do. Next you'll want Georgia and other Republican-dominated states to make voting by mail easier, or to have more voting locations and longer early voting times. Why, next thing you know, everybody's going to be voting! And when you're rapidly becoming a minority party you can't have that!

[Crunchy Frog]

19. Outrageously long lines are one of the centerpieces of voter suppression.

[Wingus Dingus]

8. Need port-a-potties too, and line placeholder volunteers.

Better yet, voters should wear adult diapers for their hours in line. Let everyone see what Americans are forced to do to vote, under Republican rule. Remember how proud they were of Dubya's purple thumb Iraqi voters? I guess we'll have to put on the same show.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Adult diapers and then throw them out by the exit.

[Wingus Dingus]

11. Yep. Make sure to at least take a good piss first.

[crickets]

12. Sounds like Good Trouble! 💙

[davsand]

13. Take a cup of pennies and a case of water. Every bottle of water costs 1 cent.

Same goes for pizza slices or anything else. Give everyone a penny/pennies then CHARGE/Sell the water and pizza for a penny. Good luck enforcing any law that says a price for selling anything is determined by law...

If they want to try and push this, the penny becomes a "payment" for services rendered--in the form of a conversation, for example--and it's then a wage situation that they are spending on whatever they choose.

I seriously doubt there's any way to make that particular idiocy stick.


Laura

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. You can't just give away the penny, but "selling" it for a penny could work

"No person shall solicit votes in any manner or by any means or method, nor shall any person distribute or display any campaign material, nor shall any person give, offer to give, or participate in the giving of any money or gifts, including, but not limited to, food and drink, to an elector," the new law states.

The law applies within 150 feet of a polling place or within 25 feet of any voter at a polling place. Violators are guilty of a misdemeanor.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/georgia-voting-law-food-drink-ban-trnd/index.html

Are "electors" allowed to give each other pennies? If so, then only a few would need to turn up with a bit of change and it would all go fine (and you can also say "all proceeds go to a charity fighting fascism&quot .

If they can't give each other pennies, then that wording would also seem to prohibit one elector giving another (eg their spouse) water, since an elector is also "a person". If so, the absurdity of the law just gets bigger and bigger.

[USALiberal]

17. How about a third party accidently dropping 500 penny's?

[krispos42]

20. Wait, so I could take a 26-long piece of PVC piping...

...and slide bottles of water down it to people waiting in line?


Or put bottles of water on a dolly, then shove the dolly with a 26-foot pole?


Nice.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Or make a carrier for a dog, and encourage it to go to the queue for pats

or bring along a remote controlled toy car.

[Greybnk48]

16. I just joined the Georgia voting water brigade on FB

volunteering to go to Georgia for elections to pass out water to people in line. I invited 70+ of my FB friends to join as well. I was invited by a former student of mine who lives in GA.

edited to remove link with exposed names

[Talitha]

21. I wonder what they would do if Joe and Kamala helped pass out water?

[alphafemale]

23. Even if it stands, it would only be able to be enforced withing the 150ft feet

or whatever the distance is for electioneering in that state.

I don't see how water could be denied though.