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10-24-2016 , 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
I was worried about this when I mailed in my ballot. I cannot remember how I signed my name on my registration so I have NFI if it matches my ballot envelope signature. I don't have time to drive 30 miles to their office to check my own ****ing signature either.

I just checked the county Web site and it confirmed that they had received my ballot, so that's hopeful. I guess.
Just stop at any place doing a voter drive and update your registration with your current signature.
10-24-2016 , 11:09 AM
these people are disgusting. i guess it's just easier to suppress turnout than it is to rid yourself of your misguided, abhorrent views
10-24-2016 , 03:15 PM
They haven't changed anything in Florida since 2012 as far as I know so if you, or anyone you know, needs to vote without an ID have them register with a vote drive group and request and absentee ballot at the same time. As long as they have a SSN on the form they're all good.
10-24-2016 , 08:11 PM
10-24-2016 , 09:59 PM
lol South. Georgia having problems, too.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...cA1&ocid=wispr

Amongst the goodies:

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Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to extend registration for six counties affected by the hurricane. Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who oversees elections, responded by taking to Twitter to rail against “left-wing activists,” whom he accused of trying to disrupt the upcoming election.
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Kemp has used Twitter to criticize the ACLU, which had asked the court to reopen voter registration for residents of Chatham County, which includes Savannah, and five other counties that were hardest hit by Hurricane Matthew. On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled against the ACLU.

In a series of tweets, Kemp decried what he said was a “stunt by the ACLU to manipulate the system & squander state, county resources days before the election.”

“We can’t sit back and watch the radical left create chaos in our state. Stand with me and protect Georgia elections!” he wrote in another.
10-25-2016 , 09:51 AM
Does he give any explanation at all anywhere about why allowing people eligible to register to vote, to be able to register, is bringing chaos to the state and disrupting Georgia elections?
10-25-2016 , 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by master3004
Does he give any explanation at all anywhere about why allowing people eligible to register to vote, to be able to register, is bringing chaos to the state and disrupting Georgia elections?
Because liberals
10-25-2016 , 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Crozbee
these people are disgusting. i guess it's just easier to suppress turnout than it is to rid yourself of your misguided, abhorrent views
The 2012 post partum - "Be more conservative = win!" apparently was a dog whistle for "Suppress more minority votes = win!"
10-25-2016 , 10:15 PM
10-27-2016 , 08:52 AM
Good story on why voting by mail should be more common, not that there aren't issues with it

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politi...voting-by-mail

Also, can you imagine if Dems did voter suppression the way Republicans did? If they made it so more affluent neighborhoods had less voting stations, shifted polls to urban areas, argued that rural voters likely had cars so what did it matter if they were inconvenienced?

The right would be apoplectic with rage over the slight inconvenience to white voters trying to vote R.
10-27-2016 , 01:06 PM
Short of the "move polling to urban area", what you described is pretty much already how it works.

You can't just up and move the polls OUT of Whitey McWhitesville because the big name races aren't the only thing on the ballot, and making sure everyone gets the right one in a centralized polling location would be a logistical nightmare.

The people in those affluent neighborhoods are already forced to get in their cars and drive across town to the City Hall or the Elementary School or whatever and wait in the long line to vote. There is rarely more than one voting location. These things are generally budgeted by population, not land area. The polling location in Sussex WI was several miles away from my house. My polling location in Milwaukee was 500 feet from my front door. There are a ton of them in the city because of the population density.

It's already ridiculously easy to vote absentee or bum a ride and vote early at the same place everyone else does. Hell, the Democrats will come pick you up themselves if you ask. This UWGB uproar is just absurd.
10-27-2016 , 01:19 PM
10-27-2016 , 01:23 PM
You see Wookie, liberals are the Real Racists for insisting that black people need special help to get to the polls.
10-27-2016 , 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Uh:

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Before the changes, blacks were 2.90 miles away while whites were 3.77 miles away, on average, according to Busa’s numbers. After the changes, blacks were 3.14 miles away while whites remained 3.77 miles away.
Sounds like they made a very inequitable situation slightly less so with the changes.

Whites still need to travel 20% further to early vote than blacks. Working as intended.
10-27-2016 , 01:39 PM
I actually agree that it's working as intended. We disagree over the intentions.

There is an obvious way to reduce the distance whites travel without increasing the distance blacks have to. That option was specifically not chosen!
10-27-2016 , 01:40 PM
white man can't catch a break as usual
10-27-2016 , 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
white man can't catch a break as usual
See? This guys gets it.
10-27-2016 , 01:58 PM
As a middle class white guy, I've never had to go over a mile to get to a polling location. Lines also never existed.

If I was conservative I would assume everyone else in the country has my same experience and all those videos of people in long lines are fakes put out by the librul media.
10-27-2016 , 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Inso0
Uh:



Sounds like they made a very inequitable situation slightly less so with the changes.

Whites still need to travel 20% further to early vote than blacks. Working as intended.
Incredible that you quoted information that states they took a situation and literally only made it only worse for blacks to support your side.
10-27-2016 , 02:59 PM

10-27-2016 , 03:04 PM
My polling place in SF is around the corner from where I live, and when I previously lived ~8 blocks from here my polling place was a different place about 3 blocks away.



Life in a blue city in a blue state, I guess.
10-27-2016 , 03:18 PM
That chart works for the Blue = HRC Red = Trump as well.
10-27-2016 , 06:54 PM
I have this theory that Inso has been cursed by a gypsy that makes it so he can only ever post the most wrong bull****.
10-28-2016 , 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by rageotones
Incredible that you quoted information that states they took a situation and literally only made it only worse for blacks to support your side.
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Originally Posted by master3004
I have this theory that Inso has been cursed by a gypsy that makes it so he can only ever post the most wrong bull****.
You were able to turn on your science boxes and create forum accounts to post with, so we all know you two aren't this dumb. Take a look at the bigger picture.

Before: 80% of the population had to travel 30% further to vote compared to the other 20% of the population.

After: 80% of the population only has to travel 20% further to vote compared to the other 20% of the population.

In your addled liberal brains, shrinking the discrepancy is somehow discriminatory against the 20%.

Liberalism: not even once.
10-28-2016 , 11:07 AM
The appropriate metric is time, not distance.

      
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