It's illegal to give someone a drink of water or some food while standing in line for 2 plus hours to vote? Republicans will stoop to anything to win an election. I am surprised the reputard georgia legislature didn't put in you have to be able to explain Einstein's theory of relativity before you can vote.The Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Georgia Secretary of State's office was on CNN the other day. Like you and me, he thinks massive election fraud in Georgia is a fantasy dreamed up by Donald Trump, Lin Wood, and Sydney Powell.
He went through the list of Democratic Party criticisms of the Georgia election law one by one. They're mostly bogus. He thinks overall it's a good bill.
About food and water, there's a law that's been in place for years, that you can't campaign within 150 feet of a polling place. Apparently political operatives were able to use water and food as an excuse to electioneer. Election workers are allowed and do give water to people in line. One of the items in the new Georgia election law is that if people have to wait over an hour to vote, then next election they have to add a new precinct or polling place to shorten the wait to under an hour. So people shouldn't be dying of thirst or hunger while waiting to vote.
The one item in the bill that the COO disagreed with is that it gives more power over elections to the Georgia legislature and less to the Secretary of State's office, where he works.
Anyway, the main reason you're hearing a lot about this bill is because it gives Democratic Party politicians a chance to get their base fighting mad. This can translate to better Democratic Party turnout in the next election and more campaign contributions. There's a parallel between what they're doing and what Trump was doing in claiming massive election fraud, and using this to raise money for his political action committee. Unfortunately, they're both destroying confidence in our election system and dividing the country.
Odd thing is, it was TRUMP who wanted a second $2,000 stimulus check from the beginning. That would only happen if the democrats won both Georgia Senate elections in Jan 2021 (which they did). Originally Posted by adav8s28Yeah, like I wrote back in December, "I don't understand why most of the esteemed left-of-center posters here hate Trump. Donald Trump is a great friend to the Democratic Party, and his latest antics appear to be a ploy to lose the Georgia Senate elections and turn all the levers of the federal government over to Biden, Schumer and Pelosi." He single handedly caused Republicans to loose one of the Georgia Senate runoffs, maybe both of them.
