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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt'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
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)Jerry2144
(2,044 posts)50 feet, 100 feet, 150 feet doesnt sound bad. But why the heck do the lines have to be that long? Why cant 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)The lines in Georgia on Nov 3rd really werent that bad, much better than when absentee and early voting werent as popular.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)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)all those who live in states who are trying to take away your vote, dont let them. The surest way to mobilize people to vote is to make it harder to vote. Heros 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.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)I've been saying this for days
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)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)...that they can't bring themselves to show their face in public.