Baseball been not berry berry good to Georgia

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3 minutes ago, Hammerin Hank said:

As a life long fan of Hank Aaron it sickens me to see loefler invoke his name in an attempt at a political cheap shot. She really is an awful person 

 

[Hammerin Hank 1230]

I can only imagine how angry his family must feel about that 

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

11 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

They didn’t change the laws because of fraud. They changed them because they didn’t like the outcome of the statewide races. 

If Trump had won the election then this wouldn’t be happening. Everybody knows it. I saw some GA Republican interviewed on tv, I forget by whom, but he was asked if this law would be getting passed if Trump had won and he just gave a sly grin and said, “Let me check my crystal ball.” The message was loud and clear. 

Edited April 4, 2021 by WhatTheBuck

[Biff Tannen 46060]

2 hours ago, Hammerin Hank said:

As a life long fan of Hank Aaron it sickens me to see loefler invoke his name in an attempt at a political cheap shot. She really is an awful person 

Username absolutely checks out.

[Beau Vine 55816]

[Biff Tannen 46060]

Literally all these people have to do to avoid being “cancelled” is just not be assholes. That’s it. But they just can’t.  It’s just too hard for them not to be assholes. It’s fascinating. 

[ChickenSandwich 9918]

On 4/3/2021 at 7:14 AM, B00M said:

I was asking for specifics

From NYT:

Here are the most significant changes to voting in the state, as written into the new law:
Voters will now have less time to request absentee ballots.
There are strict new ID requirements for absentee ballots.
It’s now illegal for election officials to mail out absentee ballot applications to all voters.
Drop boxes still exist … but barely.
Mobile voting centers (think an R.V. where you can vote) are essentially banned.
Early voting is expanded in a lot of small counties, but probably not in more populous ones.
Offering food or water to voters waiting in line now risks misdemeanor charges.
If you go to the wrong polling place, it will be (even) harder to vote.
If election problems arise, a common occurrence, it is now more difficult to extend voting hours.
With a mix of changes to vote-counting, high-turnout elections will probably mean a long wait for results.
Election officials can no longer accept third-party funding (a measure that nods to right-wing conspiracy theories).
With an eye toward voter fraud, the state attorney general will manage an election hotline.
The Republican-controlled legislature has more control over the State Election Board.
The secretary of state is removed as a voting member of the State Election Board.
The G.O.P.-led legislature is empowered to suspend county election officials.
Runoff elections will happen faster — and could become harder to manage.

• The law makes absentee voting harder. People must have a qualifying form of identification to vote by mail. The law also makes it harder to request and return an absentee ballot, restricting the period when people can apply for one and limiting the number of drop boxes where voters can return such a ballot in person.

• On balance, it might make in-person voting easier, especially in the general election (though it contains provisions that cut in both directions).

  The law expands the number of required days of early voting, including on the weekend days that progressives covet (two Saturdays are now required instead of one). There’s also a provision that requires large precincts with long lines to add machines, add staff or split the precinct. Depending on how this is rolled out, it could be a big win for voters in Georgia’s urban areas, who have dealt with some of the longest lines in the country.

  Cutting in the other direction is the gratuitous and probably ineffectual limitation on handing out food and water to people standing in line to vote. Of more concrete but still limited importance is a rule that makes it harder for people to cast a provisional ballot if they show up at the wrong precinct. (It’s worth noting that many states don’t count these ballots at all, and there were only around 10,000 total provisional ballots in Georgia in the last election, including those cast in the right precinct.)

• It shortens the runoff period. Runoffs would be held four weeks after an initial election, instead of the nine weeks that had been in place for federal elections in the last few years. A main consequence would be to shorten early runoff voting to one week, instead of three, plausibly affecting turnout in exactly the kind of close, low-turnout race where it could easily be decisive.

• It empowers the State Legislature to play a larger role in election administration. It removes the secretary of state as chair of the state board of elections and allows the Legislature to appoint a majority of the board’s members, including the chair. And it empowers the state board to take over county boards of elections, if the circumstances merit it.

  These might prove to be very important. But for the purposes of this article, we are not considering them “voter suppression” provisions. They do not inherently make it harder for people to vote by restricting whether or how they can vote.

• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/upshot/georgia-election-law-turnout.html#click=https://t.co/CCu7bKxNHu

• On Election Day in Georgia, polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and if you are in line by 7 p.m., you are allowed to cast your ballot. Nothing in the new law changes those rules.

  “One of the biggest changes in the bill would expand early voting access for most counties, adding an additional mandatory Saturday and formally codifying Sunday voting hours as optional,” Stephen Fowler of Georgia Public Broadcasting said in an excellent and comprehensive report on the impact of the new law. “Counties can have early voting open as long as 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., or 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at minimum. If you live in a larger metropolitan county, you might not notice a change. For most other counties, you will have an extra weekend day, and your weekday early voting hours will likely be longer.”
   

  The law used to say early “voting shall be conducted during normal business hours.” Experts said that generally means 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The new law makes it specific — “beginning at 9:00 AM and ending at 5:00 PM.” A Georgia election official said the change was made in part because some rural county election offices only worked part time during the week, not a full eight-hour day, so the shift to more specific times makes it clear they must be open every weekday for at least eight hours.

  But, as noted, the law also allows individual counties to set the hours anywhere between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. So the practical effect of the 5 p.m. reference in the law is minimal.

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/30/biden-falsely-claims-new-georgia-law-ends-voting-hours-early/

  The bill states no person shall offer or give money or gifts, including, but not limited to, food and drink "to an elector within 150 feet of a polling place or within 25 feet of someone waiting in line." 

  Water can be provided to those waiting in line by election workers.

   

  The law makes absentee ballot drop boxes mandatory in all counties — a requirement that didn't exist prior to the 2020 election. 
  Drop boxes, previously an emergency measure(allowed b/c COVID), are now codified in all counties.

   

   

[AnTiM 1684]

So the Georgia governor is now boohooing about how tough this will be on the citizens of Georgia not to mention the entire country.  Maybe he should have thought to do a little research or ask a few questions before  throwing his dumb ass off the pier.  Wonder if he knows yet or will admit who won the presidential election?  How do people this fucking stupid end up in public office?

[ChickenSandwich 9918]

provisions include requirements that voters present a photo IDwhen voting in person; that those voting by mail provide their driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number; and that in-person voting on Sundays are now a county option rather than a statewide mandate. None of these provisions should prevent anyone from voting, and many are popular even among Black voters.

Photo identification is a case in point. Democrats have long resisted the requirement on the theory that some voters without driver’s licenses or other state-issued IDs could be disenfranchised. But as progressive elections analyst Ruy Teixeira points out, studies regularly show that photo ID requirements have not reduced turnout. Georgia’s law also permits voters to ask for a free voter-ID card if they don’t have one of the six permitted forms of photo ID. A recent poll conducted for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution also found that 74 percent of Georgians support a photo-ID requirement for voting, including 63 percent of Black respondents. Democrats’ objections are an answer in search of a problem.
 

The new mail-in ballot measures are also not likely to depress turnout. Black voters already prefer to vote in person, either early or on Election Day. Seventy percent say they voted in-person in the 2020 presidential election according to the AJC poll. Moreover, the law’s new security measure, which replaces the old system of using a person’s signature to verify absentee ballots with a requirement that absentee voters provide a driver’s license or state ID card, will likely decrease the chance that valid ballots are wrongly rejected. That’s a good thing that everyone should cheer.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/30/no-georgias-new-voting-law-is-not-return-jim-crow/%3foutputType=amp

Absentee ballots available to all citizens 65 and over, no reason required. 

Edited April 4, 2021 by ChickenSandwich

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15 minutes ago, AnTiM said:

So the Georgia governor is now boohooing about how tough this will be on the citizens of Georgia not to mention the entire country.  Maybe he should have thought to do a little research or ask a few questions before  throwing his dumb ass off the pier.  Wonder if he knows yet or will admit who won the presidential election?  How do people this fucking stupid end up in public office?

He means white citizens.  He doesn't think POC are full citizens.  Only partially like say 3/5ths.

[ChickenSandwich 9918]

Changes affecting local elections offices

One change buried in the bill would give county elections officials greater flexibility with voting equipment for smaller, lower-turnout races. Previous law requires one ballot-marking device per every 250 active voters. Statewide general elections would still require that ratio, but any other election would be subject to the local elections officials' discretion, based on expected turnout, the type of election, number of people that have already voted and more.

Counties will also have to provide better notice of public logic and accuracy testing of voting machines and equipment, where officials calibrate every piece of technology used in the election. The dates and times should be on the county's website, if they have one, a local newspaper and in a prominent place within the county. Plus, the secretary of state's office must keep a master list and make it public.
 

 

Another change that was proposed last year and is now law would require large polling places with long lines to take action if wait times surpass an hour at certain times during the day. Those massive polls with more than 2,000 voters and wait times longer than an hour would have to hire more staff, add more workers or split up the precinct after that election. More than 1,500 of Georgia's precincts have over 2,000 voters.

https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/03/27/what-does-georgias-new-voting-law-sb-202-do