Texas governor eliminates 11 out of 12 ballot drop points for 4.7 million people!

I know the Republicans have gone totally insane, but allowing ONE ballot drop-off point for 4.7 million people???

SCREW "states rights"! If a state thinks they can so blatantly impact the people's right to vote, the federal government MUST intervene and pass laws on all aspects of voting! After all, it was the Republicans who have already disregarded the Constitution in many ways.

TIME FOR CHANGE!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...ricts-absentee-ballot-drop-locations-n1241736

 

Vote in person. Avoid any chance of interference.

 

General practice of the GOP VOTER SUPRESSION !!!!

 

Concentrating ballots in one container is stupid. Mailboxes are everywhere. One thing to keep in mind is that it is the Dems changing the rules.

 

Well now. That response would be a great way of dodging the issue entirely! I guess you see how clearly wrong it is and can't handle it.

Do the math. If 4.7 million people were to try to vote by absentee ballot and deposit them in that one box, that would mean 120 people per minute, 24 hours a day, from today to November 2. And in case math isn't your strong point, that would be 2 people every second from now to Nov 2.

Will just half of them vote absentee? That's "only" one person every second.

Must I go on to show it complete criminality of this?

 

Kentucky gave Lexington, eight polling locations for 700,000 people.

My lil' town of 45,000 has 12.

 

It is actions like this, blatant abuses of power to impede all ballots being counted, that lead me to start a thread last week stating plainly Dems need to start fighting fire with fire. We have a choice. We can whine about things like McConnell's obscene power grab in stuffing the courts with extremist conservatives...........or we can reassert the will of the majority by any means at our disposal.

 

Learn to promote democracy, then maybe you''ll not have to cheat to win.

 

It may sound good at first pass, but 8 locations for 700,000 votes means 2.25 votes every minute between now and election day for all of them to vote.

Regarding the 12/45,000, that means if the polls are open 12 hours a day every day until election day, 2.31 people must vote at each location per minute.

 

They do the same thing in GOP states with voting in person, close down polling locations especially in black neighborhoods, to force people to stand in line for hours or not vote.

 

The right has always relied on voter suppression. Nothing new here. When the will of the people is expressed freely the Left tends to win.

 

Yes, they do. And that is a blatant violation of the Constitutional right to vote. And I say if states are so willing to violate the Constitution, then the federal government needs to step in with laws to govern every aspect of the voting process AND the election campaigns and processes.

 

They have 30 days. What's all the whining about?

 

Why is Abbott making it more difficult to cast a ballot?

 

We need to bring our entire election process out of the dark ages and into the 21st century. We should be voting from home on either a smart phone or a PC to a CPU running a program with a separate independent region for each of the states and any other territories that get to vote. Voting on the present antiquated voting machines where voters cannot know if their votes get counted is a system rife with potential corruption and that is probably why our politicians never attempt to modernize it.

 

Well, that number includes children and people who don't vote.

In 2016, we waited 20 minutes. Not too bad. I doubt there will be nearly as many machines this year, though.

We have our ballots. We are going to fill them out in the next week and then drop them off at a collection box.

Kentucky, though, is absolutely disenfranchising voters. I think it's horrible what they are doing.

 

Is he? Doesn't sound like it. Sounds more like drama queen nonsense. First it has to be established that this move would impede anything, that hasn't happened at all. How many absentee ballots were actually requested?

 

Explain to me how restricting a county of 4.7M people to one drop-off box is justified or makes sense to you.

 

Oh you know

 

Tell me how many absentee ballots were issued in that county. Then do the math...

 

They will stand in line for days for New Jordan sneakers or a snoop doop puppy dog concert what's the difference?

 

This post is a quintessential example of FAKE NEWS.....

-For starters, Lexington Kentucky does NOT have 700,000 residents, it has 323,000 residents.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/lexingtonfayettekentucky

-Secondly, not all residents are of voting age. In this country approximately 26% of the population is under 18 thus not eligible to vote.
https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf

-In 2016, about 61% of the voting age population voted.
https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf

-Lexington Kentucky is offering 6 locations in which to drop off ones ballot between now and election day. They are offering numerous ways to vote:
1.Regular absentee through the mail,
2.Absentee by dropping off at one of the 6 drop off locations,
3.The polling locations will be open for early voting from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday from Oct. 13 through Nov. 2; and from and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays during that same time frame.
4.The polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Election Day.
https://www.lex18.com/news/election-2020/lexington-announces-6-in-person-voting-locations




Now that we have all of the facts established and every claim validated with credible links, lets go back to your claim. You are oddly talking about 700,000 people crowding 6 drop off locations. In reality we are talking about the 74% of the population that is of voting age which in Lexington is 239,020 residents, which then needs to be multiplied by 61% which is the percent that actually votes which takes that number down to 145,802 people that vote. Not all of those people are crowding drop boxes rather we are talking about the percentage of that 145,000 that are not voting on election day, are not voting in the 8 hours per day that early voting is open from October 13 to November 2nd, they are not mailing in their absentee ballot and only the ones that are opting to instead drop off their ballot at a drop box. While it is difficult to ascertain that exact number it is safe to say that your claim about 700,000 votes being packed into some fictitious long line at a drop box is about as silly as it gets. It is not an exaggeration to say that you are probably instead talking about a number that is measured in the low tens of thousands at the absolute MOST, and that number has the better part of a month to stop at one of those locations to drop off their ballot.

The residents of Lexington have numerous ways to efficiently cast their ballot

The notion that anyone is suppressing their right to vote is nothing short of FAKE NEWS. If there is a Lexington resident that is unable to avail themselves of one of these options to cast their vote, they would have to be about as incompetent as it gets. The only other option not covered would be to hold their hand as they placed their vote.

As a leftist, you have been falsely whipped up into a frenzy over nothing....AGAIN.

 

You fail to show why voting in person would create any hardship on our existing voting system.
The drop boxes are fraud waiting to happen, since ANY lock can be picked and contents emptied.
Voting in person is honest. It's traditional and legal and accepted.

 

actually this is the Republicans fighting fire with fire. Nothing can stop the vicious cycle now. Yes I know two wrongs don't make a right, but as I said, its too late now. The partisanship is totally out of control at this point and there is no going back. They are just gonna keep 1-uping each other with dirty deeds.

 

Or better, time to go back to the way we voted in the past.