It is disturbing how much voter disenfranchisement is allowed in this system.
It is disturbing how much voter disenfranchisement is allowed in this system.
We've lost the fair part of free and fair elections and you blow it off with YMMV.
Miss me with that entitled bullshit
> Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has said in statements that "fear of contracting COVID-19 does not amount to a sickness or physical condition as required by state law." He also said that his office would prosecute people for voter fraud if they use a mail-in ballot in a matter he said is improper.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/864899178/why-is-voting-by-ma...
Your link points to an expanded reference of the 46 states who have expanded access to mail in ballots!
Regarding, your second point, take a look at the Texas Secretary of State's page on Absentee Ballots. https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/voter/reqabbm.shtml. The AG that was quoted is absolutely correct, according to the listed reasons.
The AG doesn't make law. The Texas legislature makes law. So, what was your point in quoting that scare article?
Instead of repeatedly posting links to scare articles, do you have a link to an actual person who has (not expects to) already experienced voter suppression?
Sounds like you worked for some really disenfranchising companies.
https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/L...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/11/atlanta-geor...
It's disturbing how people talk about voting as if there is disenfranchisement, without knowing the various times and ways they can vote.
https://www.aclu.org/facts-about-voter-suppression
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-vot...
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-...
https://prospect.org/politics/the-many-varieties-of-voter-su...
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659784277/republican-voter-su...
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/20...
> More than half, almost 30,000 Georgia voters, re-registered too late to participate in the close 2018 election for Georgia governor. It’s impossible to know how many of them attempted to vote, but those who tried wouldn’t have had their ballots counted.
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/many...
> Long lines and malfunctioning voting machines marred statewide primary elections in Georgia, renewing attention on voting rights there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/us/politics/atlanta-votin...
> Hourslong waits, problems with new voting machines and a lack of available ballots plagued voters in majority minority counties in Georgia on Tuesday — conditions the secretary of state called "unacceptable" and vowed to investigate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/georgia-secre...
> In the 2014 midterms, only 33 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot—setting the record for the lowest turnout in any national election of any advanced democracy (except Andorra) since 1945.
> In 25 states, employers are not required to give their employees paid leave to vote; in 19 states, employers are not required to let their employees leave work to vote.
https://www.countable.us/articles/12558-americans-get-day-vo...
> And nearly 56,000 of them re-registered within the same county, according to the AJC/APM Reports analysis. If their registrations hadn’t been canceled, they would have been able to vote without having to re-register.
And 0 of those had voted in several prior elections, which is why the law was followed to remove them from the registered rolls.
> More than half, almost 30,000 Georgia voters, re-registered too late to participate in the close 2018 election for Georgia governor. It’s impossible to know how many of them attempted to vote, but those who tried wouldn’t have had their ballots counted.
It doesn't sound like they are active participants. They didn't vote for some time, then they said they registered too late to vote. It's best not to use them as people who are being denied a vote. It is their choices not to have voted for a long time.
> Long lines and malfunctioning voting machines marred statewide primary elections in Georgia, renewing attention on voting rights there.
These voting machines are almost 100% a laughingstock. The very article said that! They have to do with the rush that happened a few years ago to institute voting machines - not with voter suppression but the exact opposite.
> Hourslong waits, problems with new voting machines and a lack of available ballots plagued voters in majority minority counties in Georgia on Tuesday — conditions the secretary of state called "unacceptable" and vowed to investigate.
From the same article you quoted: "Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, blamed local officials in Fulton County, which includes most of the City of Atlanta, and said there were few issues elsewhere, while by midafternoon counties outside Atlanta had begun extending voting hours to account for time lost tending to the new machines."
If everyone else could do what needed to be done, outside of Atlanta, then Atlanta should be investigated - not invisible suppression from the rest of the state onto Atlanta.