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jsearles22
It’s actually shocking how often you’re wrong.
There's a major difference between the states, though: Colorado votes by mail. Every registered voter receives a ballot about 15 to 20 days before the election. And instead of waiting in line at a polling station, the vast majority simply drop the ballot in a mailbox or a secure dropbox.
The Georgia law also bans mobile voting centers, and it strictly limits the use of dropboxes. This is another area where Colorado is moving in the opposite direction. Colorado had one dropbox per 9,400 active registered voters for the last election, with the secretary of state boasting about adding scores of new locations in the past few years. Georgia has now set a cap of one box per 100,000 active registered voters.
Colorado does not require identification for mail voting once a person is registered. Instead, the state mails a ballot to the person's home, and then matches their signature against a database when the ballot is returned.
In Georgia, the new law bans "any person" from distributing food or water within 150 feet of a polling place or within 25 feet of a voter standing in line at a polling place. In Colorado, the state says that "comfort teams" may provide food and water, as long as they don't promote a political candidate or cause.
Well, the last part is wrong. The rest is misleading.
Here's an explanation about the food and water thing from Politifact, which is a left-leaning fact checking organziation:
Poll workers can set up self-serve water stations.
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The law makes it a misdemeanor to give away food or water within 150 feet of the outer edge of a polling place building or within 25 feet of any voter in line. Violations of this law are punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. While people other than poll workers can give away food or water, they have to adhere to these boundaries to avoid breaking the law.
So the Georgia law allows poll workers to set up unattended water stations/tables, and these poll workers can also go back and replenish the water when it runs out.
The law is clearly aimed at stopping political organizations from making it public that they'll be handing out food/water to people in line, and thus influencing the vote. Rather than trying to define what a "political organization" is -- which is incredibly difficult to codify into law -- they simply make it illegal to distribute food/water to people within 150 feet of the polling place, but allows poll workers to set up water stations.
This makes a lot of sense. It's not hard to picture Democratic-leaning organizations claiming that the white GOP establishment is purposely making the poll lines long in order to dissuade black voting, and that these sweet organizations are going to provide food and cold water for those stuck in those unfair lines. You think that might influence some people? Obviously it would.
Regarding the rest of your statement, it is mostly factually accurate, but you are leaving out key details.
"Mobile voting centers" are buses that drove around Atlanta in order to make it "easier" for people to vote. On the surface, this appears to be a great way to get more people voting. However, like all things in politics, it was a political trick to help Democrats, using the cover of COVID to justify it. First off, it's important to note that
these mobile voting centers didn't exist prior to 2020, so Georgia isn't overturning a longstanding tradition. It was allowed in 2020 as an exception due to COVID, but wasn't necessarily meant to become a permanent voting option.
But what's wrong with them? Simply put, these are run at the county level, and can easily be abused to give certain areas a voting advantage over others. These buses only ran in Fulton County, which is 67.7% Democratic. Smaller counties can't necessarily afford to run these. Unless you want to state that Fulton County should have an advantage over the rest of the state, in statewide and national elections, then these buses aren't fair. Furthermore, these buses can be manipulated by county officials to park closer to voters they want to see voting, and to not spend as much time in areas where they'd rather see less voting. I'm sure you see the potential problems here. It made sense during 2020 COVID, but not anymore.
And what about the drop boxes? This was another 2020 COVID addition. They didn't exist in 2019. Yes, the law limits the number of them, but again, it's basically Georgia saying that they didn't want temporary COVID changes to be permanent, and that makes sense. So this is kind of a middle ground, which leaves some drop boxes, and limits their existence to normal voting hours, but doesn't eliminate them. Honestly if it were up to me, I'd just leave the drop boxes the way they were, but I can understand why Georgia wants to try to get people back to in-person voting, as it always was prior to 2020. There's also nothing racist about this decision.
Regarding what you stated about Colorado, it's correct. I don't like their system. Universal mail-in balloting sucks, for reasons I've stated before. Still, the fact remains that you can't register to vote in Colorado without ID, and voter ID is supposed to be super duper racist, according to Democrats. So shouldn't that make Colorado's law racist? BTW, the complaint from Dems isn't that people have to show ID every time they vote. It's that you need ID in order to vote, so anyone who never got ID (or didn't register to vote while they had ID) wouldn't be able to vote in Colorado, either.
Then there's the bizarre fact that Cobb County, where Truist Park (Braves stadium) is located, is 28.8% black, and voted Democratic in both 2016 and 2020. So MLB is punishing a county with a disproportionately high black population, supposedly to help black people. Makes loads of sense.
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