It should never be illegal to give another human being a drink of water.

FEAR MONGERING. I have never heard of anyone dying of thirst on election day nor have I ever heard of anyone handing out water anywhere.

It's just something to attack the Republicans on. People have been voting without water for over 150 years so what's the big deal?

 

long lines have been a issue for many, maybe you're like me and don't live where that happens, but the solution is not to ban handing out water, the solution is more polling places

republicans would not allow mail in ballots to be counted before election day, they caused the delay

in the future mail in ballots should be counted first

 

I agree 100%. All mail in ballots should be counted 1-2 days before the election to fix the problem. Republicans made a mistake on that one.

 

It was the Republicans that found it important enough to add to an anti-voting bill....so ask them what is the big deal

 

Dems were using the pretext of providing food/water to evade the ban (common in almost every state) on campaigning near the polling place.

 

I've never once had a bottle of water convince me about anything regarding politics. A bottle of water has never convinced me to change my mind about anything, actually.

 

I've been to polling places with all kinds of tables and people with megaphones just outside the X-feet barrier required. None of those people have ever influenced my vote and I would argue that one hasn't made an informed decision in their vote if a bottle of water or loudspeaker noise could make a difference.

 

Perhaps not, but the activist using the pretext of a bottle of water might sway you (and those around you) with his several minutes of in-your-face advocacy.

 

Handing a bottle of water to a thirsty person who has been in line to vote should take 2-4 seconds.

They shouldn't be allowed to spend several minutes giving a political speech.

What percentage of the people do you suppose are still undecided while in line to vote?

 

But you've had yourself convinced of something without first verifying what you're told.
I bet that happens a lot.

 

No one, except election officials, should be allowed to approach voters in line to vote.

 

To take the last first, I don't know and I don't care. What I know is that campaigning at a polling site is prohibited in just about every state, but that is what was happening under the pretext of providing water. It was the activists who brought this on. Blame the authors of the problem, not those who fixed it.

 

In a nation notorious for flagrant vote fraud and election rigging "mail in voting" should be banned.

“They called on states to increase voter ID requirements; to be leery of mail-in voting; to halt ballot harvesting; to maintain voter lists, in part to ensure dead people are promptly removed from them; to allow election observers to monitor ballot counting; and to make sure voting machines are working properly.

They also wanted the media to refrain from calling elections too early and from touting exit polls.

All of this may sound eerily similar to the issues in the prolonged presidential election battle of 2020. But these were among the 87 recommendations from the 2005 report of the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, known informally as the Carter-Baker Commission.”
THE MICHIGAN STAR, Seven Ways the 2005 Carter-Baker Report Could Have Averted Problems With 2020 Election, By Fred Lucas, 11/27/20.
https://themichiganstar.com/2020/11...uld-have-averted-problems-with-2020-election/

 

See, these GOP ideas are great. What's good for the goose... So let's do the same for gun sales.

You can only buy a gun once every two years, on the first Tuesday in November
You have to show multiple kinds of IDs
There will be only one place in your county selling guns manned by just a couple of clerks
You can't buy it a few days in advance or on a Saturday. Must be only on that day.
You have to register in advance for your purchase, before a deadline. No same-day registration.
You must buy it in person. No ordering online or anything or sending payment by mail. You must go and wait in line.
No one can give you water while you wait.

Great, right? Right?

What do you mean, it's unreasonable and meant to discourage people from buying guns, and it's stomping on their constitutional rights??? Not at all!!! It's just to protect the integrity of gun sales!!! You know, so that there is a nationally orchestrated fraud by the hundreds of millions to alter the gun sales from one brand to another brand. That doesn't happen, that's a lie, there's no proof? Yeah, you're right. Still, let's protect the integrity of the process, shall we?

 

You think you will hear stories about people dying of thirst while waiting in line to vote? Those people would just go home rather than wait in line to vote and and that's the problem. Republicans are trying to suppress the vote in urban areas where lines are typically longer.

The simple solution would be to add more polling places or expand early voting, but Republicans don't want that, but we all know why.

 

Polling locations are not required to offer self service water to voters. And voters would still have to leave their place in line to get the food and water. It's only a matter of time before Republicans make it a misdemeanor for holding a stranger's spot in line as they go get water.

 

sure they are....and of course only the Dems would have ever done such a thing...

 

You are correct, although the law applies to all.

 

I doubt it.

 

I do admire you true blue party loyalist.

Seems so much easier way to live, but I just cannot bring myself to sell my soul to either party.

 

Cons are still trying to rationalize Trump's butt whooping.

"Oh he only lost because dems were handing out water and food! And if you combine that with Hughes Chavez controlling voting machines from the grave, it's a minor miracle Trump was even close!"

 

I belong to no party. But I call out hypocrisy when I see it.

 

You call it out in one party and say it does not exist in the other.

Makes your claim of not belonging to one seem a bit hard to fall for

 

There is no instance on record of this activity by Republicans in Georgia. And in any case the law applies to all parties.

 

And you have a long list of recorded instances of the Dems doing this?

And yet it is normally one group of people that tend to have to stand in line longer due to the Repubs choosing when and where people can vote