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This thread is designed to be a place for the discussion of day-to-day efforts by Republican majority legislatures to suppress the number of Democratic votes in Nov 2022.
While this thread's main purpose is new information. The discussion of previous voter suppression laws, especially those still legal, are welcome.
What brought this to my mind was when I read here in one of the threads that a new law being considered makes providing food and water for those waiting ten hours to vote to now be illegal.
I'm hoping that there will be posters here in the various states that can give more information than what we can gather from national news.
For instance, in Texas for sure and I think Georgia as well, somehow, the number of precincts for Democratic leading neighborhoods is less than for Republican leaning precincts.
For instance in this fictional comparison:
How can a law that provides one poll worker and one voting machine per 2000 voters be legal while providing one voting machine per 10,000 voters in another precinct?
How can a court not rule that a state is violating the Constitution when in all Republican leaning precincts there is a 30 minute wait to vote while there is a ten hour wait to vote in Democratic leaning precincts?
How could any court rule that this is equal access to voting! When it is shown that all Democratic leaning precincts have only one poll worker and one voting machine for each 10,000 voters while every Republican leaning precinct has one poll worker and one voting machine per 2000 voters?
Surely, this is unconstitutional!
I will post some of my ideas in my next post.
While this thread's main purpose is new information. The discussion of previous voter suppression laws, especially those still legal, are welcome.
What brought this to my mind was when I read here in one of the threads that a new law being considered makes providing food and water for those waiting ten hours to vote to now be illegal.
I'm hoping that there will be posters here in the various states that can give more information than what we can gather from national news.
For instance, in Texas for sure and I think Georgia as well, somehow, the number of precincts for Democratic leading neighborhoods is less than for Republican leaning precincts.
For instance in this fictional comparison:
How can a law that provides one poll worker and one voting machine per 2000 voters be legal while providing one voting machine per 10,000 voters in another precinct?
How can a court not rule that a state is violating the Constitution when in all Republican leaning precincts there is a 30 minute wait to vote while there is a ten hour wait to vote in Democratic leaning precincts?
How could any court rule that this is equal access to voting! When it is shown that all Democratic leaning precincts have only one poll worker and one voting machine for each 10,000 voters while every Republican leaning precinct has one poll worker and one voting machine per 2000 voters?
Surely, this is unconstitutional!
I will post some of my ideas in my next post.