They long for the good days of white sheets burning crosses and lynchings! Well cheer up they are coming back in style. GEORGIA FIRST then?

You think banning people from providing food and water to people standing in line to vote is election integrity?  

Yes. It is a bribe.  

It is called "line warming."  It is the same as campaigning too close to the election poll. 

Stop.  Just stop for crying out loud.

That is why they passed it.

The SOS in GA even warned people about doing before the 2020 election.    It is a cheap bribe.  

:(:(:( or :):):)

My2cents is correct. For the record, rewarding people for voting has actually been illegal since 1948, and it’s not hard to see why: Offering cash or goods in exchange for ballots would be a pretty clear violation of our free Republic. 

According to Title 18, U.S. code 597, offering food and beverages would be illegal. It falls under expenditures to influence voting. The keyword is in expenditures, which can represent money, food, gifts, or anything that encourages people to vote.

  It says in part, “whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote or to vote for or against any candidate … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

So, you think that giving water or food to someone who's been standing in line for hours to vote because they closed virtually all of the polling places in their district would lead someone to change their vote?  It's amazing to me that the two of you haven't fallen off the edge of the earth yet.

Good one! :):):)

If it was an issue someone was in the middle on...it could be just enough to make the "fall off" the fence to their side of the issue. 

Dems are in control of big cities....they should have more polling locations. (Those Dems in control of big cities do and would have sway over the state DNC)

So, you don't want there to be more polling places so it keeps people from voting.  What are you smoking?

:):):)

Read again...that is the opposite of what I said.

There WERE more polling places and the Republicans removed them so as to curtail voting because they knew they would lose.

All elections are local. It is the local people county level who are in control of polling stations.  Now we are talking about the big cities where people are waiting in line for hours to vote.....who is in charge in the big cities? (Hint...it is not Republicans)  They need to put in more polling places. 

This is also another reason for paper ballots.  If you get backed up...setup another table and let more people vote at the same time. Not limited by the number of electronic screens they have. 

Are you saying that closing polling places in GA was done by the Democrats?

I am saying COUNTY election officials are who decide to close a poll station.  I do not believe Republicans are being elected in Atlanta (Fulton and Dekalb county) It is the big cities where you have to stand in line for hours to vote...not the rural or even large towns. 

I don't know how accurate that is.

Notice the words COUNTY election officials..

This post was edited by my2cents at March 28, 2021 11:52 AM MDT

How many of those closed precincts were in Democrat precincts?

It is the BIG cities where people have to wait in line....where are the Dem precincts? 

NYC has plenty of polling places so I'm not sure what big cities you're talking about unless those big cities are in states where the big cities have a large minority population.

I dont know but they talk to people every election in line saying they have been in line for hours.  That is ridiculous.  And should never happen. 
And it is the local leaders fault...and does not matter what big city we are talking about...we all know those elected there are Dems. 

Houston, somewhere in CA, DC, Miami, Atlanta, Nevada are a few who came up when I ducked it up.