MLB Moves All Star Game To Colorado, Which Has Voter ID Laws, Significantly Less Diverse Than GA

Hammster said:

Same as Georgia.

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So you now know that in CO you don't have to have a photo ID.

Hammster said:

I’d have to search just like you would.

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Oh, I didn't know that you knew the new law so well.

Hammster said:

I’d have to search just like you would.

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I'm assuming that this is current law after the new GA law. The new law may not have affected this portion of voting law.
It appears to me to be the same, or very close to it, as CO.

Georgia Voter Guide

Perhaps in Colorado it isn't illegal to give a bottle of water to someone waiting outside in line to vote for hours....

Perhaps though in Colorado, there is less waiting in line for hours (not as much that is).

In Georgia, if you are black, the odds are much higher you will be forced to wait in line for hours to vote, or the line much longer and the wait much longer.

If you are white: not so much.

But in Georgia, it is newly illegal, now, to give someone water who is waiting in line to vote.

I'll call a spade a spade on that. It's pure racism.

Other national conventions and such should leave Georgia as long as they embrace open racism on voting.

Hammster said:

MLB Moves All Star Game To Colorado, Which Has Voter ID Laws, Significantly Less Diverse Than Georgia

Will those who supported the move from Georgia support this move?

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Hammster said:

You are saying that black people cannot take care of themselves, and need outside assistance in voting. And you call Georgia racist?

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It's my understanding that they have concealed voting on the Sunday before election day. Is that true and if so why did they do that?

EDIT: concealed?? should say canceled

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Colorado has what the National Conference of State Legislatures calls a “non-strict” voter ID law for in-person early voting. Voters can produce a number of different types of ID, including ones without photos. And if they don’t have ID, they can vote via provisional ballot, at which time elections officials are charged with verifying their eligibility.

Georgia’s in-person ID requirement, by contrast, is a “strict” law, requiring photo ID. If a voter doesn’t have one, they can cast a provisional ballot, but they still have to produce a photo ID to a county registrar within three days.

The comparison between Colorado’s in-person ID requirement and Georgia’s new absentee requirement mostly falls short, though, for one main reason: Colorado conducts its elections almost entirely by mail. All registered voters receive absentee ballots automatically, and as many as 99 percent of people who vote use that option.

Colorado v Georgia

Colorado Vs. Georgia Voting Laws: What Are The Differences?


Drop boxes are another big difference.
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.


In Georgia, it’s capped at one box per 100,000 active registered voters. The metropolitan Atlanta area could see its number of dropboxes drop from 94 to 23, The New York Times reported. And, instead of being outdoors with 24-hour access, as many in Colorado are, the Georgia boxes must be inside government buildings and voting sites.

Hammster said:

You are saying that black people cannot take care of themselves, and need outside assistance in voting. And you call Georgia racist?

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No.

I'm saying in Georgia, if you are black, on average you have to wait longer in line to vote.

Now the new law makes it illegal for someone to give you water while you wait in line....

It's racist.

I think the new Georgia law can be challenged as unconstitutional, and parts of it, or the whole, would be struck down.

Halbhh said:

No.

I'm saying in Georgia, if you are black, on average you have to wait longer in line to vote.

Now the new law makes it illegal for someone to give you water while you wait in line....

It's racist.

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They can always hit a water fountain on the way home.... Or just wait until later.

Landon Caeli said:

They can always hit a water fountain on the way home.... Or just wait until later.

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That becomes a problem when the lines are 8 hours long and it is 90 degrees in the shade.

Hammster said:

Do you need to have ID to get a ballot?

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Why are I.D. requirements relevant in this situation?

Hammster said:

To possibly prevent folks from voting more than once. It seems that some folks want to cheat to win.

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Sorry, I was vague. I’m asking why it’s relevant to the boycott/ MLB move to Colorado.

Hammster said:

I think that thinking that black folk are at the mercy of water bearers during election time comes off as racist. Why don’t you think that they can take care of themselves?

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In my world people of every kind need help occasionally, and unpredictably. Even me. . It's not lesser to sometimes need help, but human.

When they do, it's not a flaw or failure.

Does this not apply to us as Christians regarding to persons standing in long voting lines in Georgia?

What do our Christian values require of us - partisan politics or this?

Hank77 said:

Oh, I didn't know that you knew the new law so well.

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I've been reading about it, and it's worse than I'd heard.

Here are the most significant changes to voting in the state, as written into the new law:

• Voters will now have less time to request absentee ballots.
• There are strict new ID requirements for absentee ballots.
• It’s now illegal for election officials to mail out absentee ballot applications to all voters.
• Drop boxes still exist … but barely.
• Mobile voting centers (think an R.V. where you can vote) are essentially banned.
• Early voting is expanded in a lot of small counties, but probably not in more populous ones.
• Offering food or water to voters waiting in line now risks misdemeanor charges.
• If you go to the wrong polling place, it will be (even) harder to vote.
• If election problems arise, a common occurrence, it is now more difficult to extend voting hours.
• With a mix of changes to vote-counting, high-turnout elections will probably mean a long wait for results.
• Election officials can no longer accept third-party funding (a measure that nods to right-wing conspiracy theories).
• With an eye toward voter fraud, the state attorney general will manage an election hotline.
• The Republican-controlled legislature has more control over the State Election Board.
• The secretary of state is removed as a voting member of the State Election Board.
• The G.O.P.-led legislature is empowered to suspend county election officials.
• Runoff elections will happen faster — and could become harder to manage.

What Georgia’s Voting Law Really Does

It seems to me some parts will break federal law and/or be also unconstitutional. For example, it's probably unconstitutional to try to restrict or reduce voting by city residents because they live in denser areas.