NBP in Philadelphia, 2012
Posted on 07/18/2022 8:16:26 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
ATLANTA — A federal court judge could soon decide if Georgia’s ban on passing out food and water to people waiting in voting lines is unconstitutional.
A hearing was held Monday to take up the issue.
Channel 2′s Richard Elliot learned Monday that Georgia’s Secretary of State is promising to defend that law all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The issue dates back to the June presidential 2020 primary. Channel 2 Action News was out at the Fanplex polling place in southeast Atlanta, where a line stretched around the block, and it was a sweltering day.
Elliot saw groups passing out water and snacks to voters and encouraging them to stay in line.
More than six months later, the Georgia Legislature passed the controversial Election Integrity Act, which, among other things, banned anyone from passing out food and water to anyone in voting lines.
Republican lawmakers worried that it ventured dangerously close to illegal electioneering and could be abused by certain groups who could use that loophole to campaign for their candidates.
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I don’t how this would affect a Midnight Georgia Voting Mule...
In Pennsylvania poll pigeons can pass out anything they want so long as they stay 10 feet away from the out doors of the polling place.
Tablets, hand cards, emory boards, water bottles....WTF difference?
In the Good Old Days they’d roll out the whiskey barrels.
The Democrats lay awake nights thinking up new ways to twist
the process.
They can’t leave anything well enough alone.
Have we ever seen a trunk full of Republican ballots found
on election day?
Why do they find so many trunks full of Democrat ballots?
I can bring my own popcorn and water, thanks.
(And I use emery boards in the privacy of my bathroom...)
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They want to have Giant Free Barbeques.
And it’ll be illegal to check the half pints passed out.
People aren’t Voting - they’re having a Barbecue and a half pint of nottyhead.
Men standing on the steps with clubs making sure people voted for Obama got a pass by the DOJ. Hard to imagine handing out food and water is problematic, but then everybody is judged by a different standard.
In WV in the 1960 Democrat primary, county sheriffs (all democrat) handed out whiskey for JFK votes. That’s how Humphrey was defeated here. It’s said the JFK primary victory here was the impetus that allowed JFK to get the Rat nomination.
So, there’s fine old tradition of food & drinks in Rat politics.
In WV in the 1960 Democrat primary, county sheriffs (all democrat) handed out whiskey for JFK votes. That’s how Humphrey was defeated here. It’s said the JFK primary victory here was the impetus that allowed JFK to get the Rat nomination.
So, there’s fine old tradition of food & drinks in Rat politics.
NBP in Philadelphia, 2012
Dirty Tricks:
In John F. Kennedy’s first run for Congress in 1946, his
father, Joe Kennedy, to help his son’s chances in the
Democratic primary, allegedly paid a man named Joseph Russo
to run — greatly reducing the chances of the other Joseph
Russo who was already running in the primary.
Who would know which was the right Russo?
It worked.
https://www.politico.com/gallery/2012/06/16-worst-political-dirty-tricks/000188-002246.html
Look toward the bottom of the page, or scroll down just a
little.
The rule is no handouts within 150 ft of the polling place by political parties. This is a big nothing. Dims must be worried.
Yep. My state is like that as well, they post large signs and sometimes mark a temporary line on the ground. Before the line you can have as many signs as you want, talk to voters, etc.
IIRC, in the legislation, it permits the city/county to have water stations set up.
It amazes me how all these cities have hours long wait times. I currently live in a city of about 55k people and never had to wait for more than 5 minutes to check in and maybe another 5 mins to fill out a ballot and put it in the machine. I’m usually able to park, vote and leave in 10 minutes, maybe a bit linger in a presidential election.
I am a Judge of Elections in PA.
More than 10 feet away from the outside door to the polling place (or bottom of the ADA ramp) you can hand out anything you like: water bottles, shots, blunts, whatever.
Inside that line, you will meet my Constable. And he is armed.
If you’re smart enough to vote, you’re smart enough to bring your own water. However, November election days aren’t usually sweltering in most of the US. Any other election, as in a primary, has very few voters showing up so long lines are unlikely.
Election days during the colonial era were a pig-roastin, mead and rum drinkin’, vote-chasing, rollicking good time, if you read Madison’s biographies.
If you bus in a group, long lines will form. Ask anyone who has ever worked in a fast food joint in a tourist area.
What are the odds that these two s’bags are either dead or incarcerated?
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