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Originally Posted by Chico23231
This is great...asking young white college progressives about the voter law then using their responses and actually asking black voters about voting.
Listening to white progressive responses, welp their pretty racist
If you can’t see it, I can’t help you.
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This is hilarious, but not for the reason you want it to be.
A filmmaker rolls into one of the quote unquote "
best places to live in America" to ask white people who have most likely never lived anything close to a minority's experience why they think black people don't or can't vote.
Then he takes their responses to Harlem where of course everyone he interviewed have ID's, know how to vote, know where the DMV is. The problem with that is as the filmmaker he has the freedom to pick and choose who he wants to interview. It doesn't necessarily represent everybody who lives in Harlem.
I'm just gonna be straight up about it. I have no idea about the problems afflicting minority communities because my privileged middle-class white ass has never had to live that experience. I don't know what the numbers are in relation to voters/non-voters. I don't feel like putting in the work to know either.
The only thing I do know is that
studies show the new GA voter laws will make it harder to vote for places with a large population.
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Originally Posted by NY Times
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.
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Looking forward to my entire rebuttal being discredited for using the NY Times.