That's false. Not that I give a crap, but it took about 27 seconds to google and find the truth.
OT - MLB moving game from Georgia
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try again. it's been reported from multiple sources. why do you think they changed their election procedures? do you honestly believe they are trying to be mean? what is wrong with using an id to identify validity?
enough didnt they. just enough in 6 different states to come back after hours, doors locked and polling place watchers removed. wow, derr, i guess it's all on the up and up if the msm and marxist politicians tell me it is.
i seen the invoices for the printed ballots. not false at all. it took 26 seconds to find this.
Nah, he got probation and some community service - after making up some ******** story about how mental and physical ailments caused him to fill out his ex's ballot and forge her name on it, all the while having no idea he was doing something wrong.
Agree with you that mail-in voting works great in Colorado, and everyone in both parties who has half a brain wants to keep it. Some things are better done in person, though. For example, I long for the days when blowharding gasbags who think everyone wants to hear their red-hot political takes could only inflict them on the fellers down at the local Casey's General Store or coffee shop, sparing the rest of us.
Food and water is available, early voting was increased, ballot drop boxes were added.
Of course if you post the entire video you will see that the workers were initially told that the were shutting down for the night so they boxed up the ballots and stored them per procedure. Them the decision was made that they would work well into the night, do they pulled them back out. Do you do any diligence before you post?
Yup. Laws will always affect one group more than another. Always. It will never have a perfectly proportionate effect. So there must be a "racial intent" to it?
They’re signing bigger tv deals for more money, eyeballs are okay, but if they’re still getting billions of dollars thrown their way then they aren’t going to care if a few boomers tune to something else.
a looong read
Here are the most significant changes to voting in the state, as written into the new law:
Here are the most significant changes to voting in the state, as written into the new law:
- 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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Honestly don’t think it would, service jobs, retail and restaurants often don’t observe national holidays. It would just give white collar guys another day off.
you didnt look for anything. pictures of the invoices for mail in ballots are available if you look. not going to do it for you. will require some WORK on you behalf.
I never said that laws don't create winners and losers. However, a voting law presumably benefits everyone equally. If it doesn't, well then yes, it is has an inherent bias. Isn't that obvious, and obviously wrong?
The bigger picture is how we get accustomed to certain attitudes. In Texas, you don’t even have to register to own a gun, meaning that it's easier to buy a potentially deadly weapon than it is to vote. Owning a gun is a fundamental right as a citizen, but I would remind you that so too is the right to vote.
Of course it does, if it applies to everyone equally, shouldnt be a problem at all. These laws apply to everyone equally, BUT, as iroh stated, more young diverse women like to mail it in, so IF you change that (by proving you are who you say you are), then it must be racism because it effects those more than any other group. It is an equality of outcome argument, which is a juvenile way of thinking. Who gives two ***** about gun laws as it relates to this? People need an ID to buy alcohol, do you not think voting on the leaders of the country is jist as important?
snowflake reality for you, now and forever. voted in 1972 and had to show an id to a group of ladies who knew me my entire 18 years of life. no one has the right or is entitled to devalue my or even your vote.
Several people have given you thoughtful responses to your initial inquiry, myself included, but you either haven't paid attention, or you don't care. You aren't looking for a discussion, you're looking for a fight. No thanks.
The new laws don't seem all that restrictive...in fact, in some cases less restrictive. No excuse needed for mail in ballots....adding an additional day...polling hours from 7 to 7 p.m.
Weird. And all this time I thought the burden was on proving your point, not on disproving a negative. Hmmm, learn summin new every day.
Good God. You are a living, breathing stereotype. Why don't you and Jussie get together and smoke a fattie?
The question was "is this racist" and in that video clip Owens is arguing that to claim the law is racist is to condescend to African Americans because it assumes they aren't intelligent enough to figure out which end is up. That's a fair point, but it's not an argument that disproves the existence of racism or racist intent.
It isn't. It cuts down on fraud. I think that MLB had another motivation in this in that they really wanted the game that was supposed to have happened last year in LA to be played this year and used this as an excuse to get it done. MLB really doesn't understand that its primary fanbase are white conservatives and even many of the Latin Americans that make up its international fanbase are conservative (Cubans, Venezuelans, etc). Just a very short-sighted decision in a time when they are feeling a terrible financial crunch. Teams have been spending massively o contracts that I question whether many will be able to afford.
Blacks really aren't a major factor in MLB in the way they are in the NFL or NBA. It's just a hard fact. Latin American players make up a much more significant percentage of baseball rosters and most of them come to this country with little prior knowledge of or concern for our politics. Many come from countries with authoritarian governments or governments that are corrupt and see America as a refuge from that trouble. I seriously doubt they were in the least bit concerned about Georgia's election laws. As for the white baseball players, most often they are conservatives and are typically pretty outspoken about it.
So what exactly was MLB's ownership trying to do? I think they want to win over a greater number of black athletes to the sport but I honestly don't see it happening. The world has changed from the 70s and baseball doesn't appeal to these athletes the way that basketball and football do. The game has a slower pace and doesn't showcase athleticism in the same way. It's much like golf or tennis where we had a couple marquee black athletes in the past couples decades (Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, etc) but their presence didn't lead to a massive growth in black participation.
In the end, MLB has only alienated a majority of its fanbase and not at a good time.
Okay, let me try explaining this a different way. Owen is making a good point, a valid point, just not a point that addresses the question that began this thread. I'm not arguing that she must prove or disprove racism. What I'm saying is that the person who posted the video did so ostensibly to demonstrate an argument that undermines the notion that the Georgia law is racist. The video does not make said argument, it makes a separate point.
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