Fact check: Republicans falsely equate Georgia and Colorado election laws

[CousinIT]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/politics/fact-check-georgia-colorado-election-law-kemp-scott-cotton

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Some of these Republicans are trying to convince Americans that baseball officials are not only wrong but hypocritical. On television and on social media, they have claimed or strongly suggested that the new Georgia law is no stricter than Colorado's elections law.
That's not even close to true.

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This is true -- but leaves out a critical piece of context: Colorado, unlike Georgia, sends out a mail ballot to every active registered voter. And the overwhelming majority of Colorado voters choose to vote by mail rather than in a voting booth.

In the 2020 general election, 94% of Colorado ballots cast were mail ballots, the state Secretary of State's office says. In the 2016 general election, it was 93%.

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Colorado keeps its ballot drop boxes open until the evening of Election Day. Georgia did the same in 2020 -- but now, under its new law, cannot do so in the future. Under the new law, drop boxes can only be available during the early voting period, which closes on the Friday before Election Day.

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The Georgia law requires drop boxes to be moved inside elections offices or early voting locations (except during emergencies declared by the governor), where they can only be available during early voting hours -- at most, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Colorado's drop boxes will continue to be available outdoors 24 hours a day.

MUCH MUCH MORE AT LINK. Useful for debunking Deplorable bullshit.

[Norbert]

1. My MAGA friends keep telling me Colorado has Voter ID

and I keep telling them this is not about voter ID.

You can tell a MAGA but you can't tell them much.

[CousinIT]

2. CO does have voter ID. But it's vastly different than GAs...

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both states have "voter ID" is correct, but the two states do not have the same voter ID requirements even for in-person voting. And under the new Georgia law, the states are even more different when it comes to mail voting.

Under the previous Georgia law, elections officials validated voters' identities by checking the signatures attached to their mail-in ballots. Under the new law, voters have to provide a Georgia driver's license number, the number on their state identification card, or the last four digits of their Social Security number. If they don't have any of that, they can provide one of several alternative forms of identification, such as a copy of a utility bill, bank statement or government check.

In Colorado, a signature is sufficient for mail voters other than first-time Colorado voters who have not previously provided their ID to elections officials in the state.

Supporters of the Georgia law are entitled to argue that its ID provision for mail voting is not especially onerous given how many options it gives voters. But it's just wrong to suggest the Georgia provision is the same as Colorado's provision.

[Cha]

3. Fucking LIARS. Douchey tried

to pull that shit with Psaki.. she righteously tore his Lies apart.

[Lovie777]

4. The republican party needs to go far far away ...

they are absolutely unbearable with all the lying and cheating they do.