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edhopper

(33,191 posts)
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 09:12 PM Mar 2021

It's not about passing out water to people

who have to wait on lines for hours to vote.

It's about the fact that they have made it so people have to wait for hours.

This is something that mostly happens in third world countries, and it is designed to keep people from voting.

It doesn't have to be this way.

US election 2020: World reaction to long queues of voters in US
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54532189

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It's not about passing out water to people (Original Post) edhopper Mar 2021 OP
Indeed! nt Wounded Bear Mar 2021 #1
Right Jerry2144 Mar 2021 #2
Because people don't vote in the 4 weeks early voting or use absentee ballots. Hoyt Mar 2021 #3
Exactly! Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #4
I live outside Philly in South Jersey suburb and never waited more than 10-15 minutes to vote. To Pepsidog Mar 2021 #5
Thank you Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #6
Georgia. All voting precincts should have the same number of working voting machines per number of v keithbvadu2 Mar 2021 #7
I can't believe everyone connected with this travesty isn't so mortified by it... BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #8

Jerry2144

(2,044 posts)
2. Right
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 10:10 PM
Mar 2021

50 feet, 100 feet, 150 feet doesn’t sound bad. But why the heck do the lines have to be that long? Why can’t they have more polling locations, more machines, etc? That is what angers me more, that voting is not a quick in and out for all voters

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Because people don't vote in the 4 weeks early voting or use absentee ballots.
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 11:00 PM
Mar 2021

The lines in Georgia on Nov 3rd really weren’t that bad, much better than when absentee and early voting weren’t as popular.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,846 posts)
4. Exactly!
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 11:05 PM
Mar 2021

I still think it's a big explanation for the discrepancy between pre-election polls and the actual outcomes.

White rural voters aren't waiting in long lines like that!

Pepsidog

(6,252 posts)
5. I live outside Philly in South Jersey suburb and never waited more than 10-15 minutes to vote. To
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 11:12 PM
Mar 2021

all those who live in states who are trying to take away your vote, don’t let them. The surest way to mobilize people to vote is to make it harder to vote. Hero’s like Stacy Abrams can talk about that. I guess we can thank Rs for their brazen power grab eight after a presidential election, at least we have time to fight the law and prepare the electorate for these sick new voting laws. And unless we do something about SCOTUS these outrageous laws, I fear, will be upheld. SCOTUS has already made it clear that the States have the Constitutional authority to do pretty much whatever they want when it comes to running elections as sickening as that is.

keithbvadu2

(36,362 posts)
7. Georgia. All voting precincts should have the same number of working voting machines per number of v
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 11:53 PM
Mar 2021

Georgia. All voting precincts should have the same number of working voting machines per number of voters and the same access to vote per number of voters.

And other states.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,535 posts)
8. I can't believe everyone connected with this travesty isn't so mortified by it...
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 12:19 AM
Mar 2021

...that they can't bring themselves to show their face in public.

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