Jim Crow Georgia

[Thebestoftherest]

Which is which?

[Captain Crimson]

The whole landscape needs new benches and sitting areas. As I'd said, there's very few in most of the major cities. But you know what they say, there's never any budget to get it done.

Yeah, more sitting areas and benches would not only help with voting processes, but other things in our society. Like commuting to work, stymying bureaucratic disenfranchisement, recreational social activities, you name it.

Would certainly never deny the GOP is trying to make a power play at this, though. Yeah, that's how the game works. Division and ruthless demonization of opponents. Maybe y'all are just jealous the GOP is better at it.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Like I said, you want to occupy a ficticious "reasonable middle ground" more than you are willing to actually be reasonable. Park benches are neither here nor fucking there. This is voter suppression with extra steps and you are bending yourself into a corkscrew to avoid outright saying "yeah, that's bad, the GOP is wrong to do this and the Left is right to object to it".

[Thebestoftherest]

Like I said, you want to occupy a ficticious "reasonable middle ground" more than you are willing to actually be reasonable. Park benches are neither here nor fucking there. This is voter suppression with extra steps and you are bending yourself into a corkscrew to avoid outright saying "yeah, that's bad, the GOP is wrong to do this and the Left is right to object to it".

Even if they are in the building a lot of voter are places that exist for other reason, I vote in a church I doubt the people who go there would like a hundred seats in their hallways.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I don't think it would be too far out of consideration that my county would have water available for people waiting in line and would just give it out by the bottle. The beauty of it is not everybody really prefers water and it's also the vital component, so it's not very susceptible to the free-rider dilemma as a public good.

I'm really not sure what the big deal is though, considering out county made it open season where anyone can go to any polling station for like 3 weeks to a month, all because of covid. I swear I've never seen anyone take your national voting rights more seriously than the people running it. They took every consideration possible as far as getting ballots to people despite any immutable circumstance.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

and that's why the Republicans are passing new voting suppression measures, because they don't want to lose like that again

[ProfessorDetective]

and that's why the Republicans are passing new voting suppression measures, because they don't want to lose like that again

Because they know the only ones capable and willing to go to a physical polling place, in ANY conditions (blizzard, heatwave, monsoon), under ANY circumstances (work, school, plague)... is their staunchest vote base. Just have to make sure that that is the ONLY available method of voting and then make said method as difficult as possible (require seven forms of ID, only have one polling place open in a city of half a mill, disable any air conditioning units present in the building) until the only ones left are the same squad of stubborn, retired, gun-toting, geriatric, bigots who've been voting red since either Nixon or Reagan. And if they still lose? Just overturn it...