Cheerful Charlie
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Willful ignorance is so declasse.
From what I remember from the last big election, only a few people voted fraudulently and they were Republicans. I don't think it happened in Georgia. Almost nobody tries to vote illegally. It's a crime with the potential of a long prison sentence. Plus, the vast majority of people who vote aren't interested in cheating, so imo, there is no valid reason to challenge voters, other than an attempt to suppress the vote, by making it harder for some people to vote.I see you like writing fiction.So you're voting for Herschel Walker. Got it.
I do not see how ability to challenge voters' registrations based on things like address affects only Democrats.Aren't you one of the Ilk who pretends that voter suppression isn't a thing? What do you say about #701 in this thread?
Besides, it is important to know where somebody lives to avoid them voting in two places.
From what I remember from the last big election, only a few people voted fraudulently and they were Republicans. I don't think it happened in Georgia. Almost nobody tries to vote illegally. It's a crime with the potential of a long prison sentence. Plus, the vast majority of people who vote aren't interested in cheating, so imo, there is no valid reason to challenge voters, other than an attempt to suppress the vote, by making it harder for some people to vote.
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/courts/appeals-court-upholds-former-gop-chairs-felony-conviction-for-voter-fraud/article_1d7c3e08-f628-11eb-b628-677d2ce0f1b9.html said:The former Colorado Republican Party chair’s felony forgery conviction will stand, after the Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected his argument that he should have been charged with a lesser offense when he fraudulently submitted his ex-wife’s 2016 mail ballot.
Steven Curtis voted twice in the 2016 general election, filling out his own ballot as well as that of Kelly Curtis, his ex-wife. He forged her signature and mailed her ballot to the Weld County Clerk and Recorder. When Kelly Curtis, who lived in a different state, contacted the clerk’s office for an absentee ballot, she learned that she had apparently voted already. She subsequently confirmed the signature on the ballot received was not hers.
“It seems to me, and correct me if I’m wrong, that virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats,” Steven Curtis said on a radio show shortly before the election, Colorado Politics reported at the time.
I don't think that tweet is really accurate. Both sides seem to put out misinformation. It might just be a misunderstanding. I can understand that since it doesn't seem as if our SOC even knows exactly how this run off will work.Georgia’s top elections official, Brad Raffensperger, said counties are already preparing for the December 6 election, and voters can request absentee ballots starting Wednesday through November 28 via the state’s online portal.
Early voting must begin by November 28 in all counties, but Raffensperger said his office anticipates some counties could have early voting on Saturday, November 26 or Sunday, November 27. “We are working with the counties to find out what their plans are on this front,” he said.
Notably, the logistics of the 2022 runoff will be different than in years passed. The 2021 Georgia law that cut the length of runoffs from nine weeks to four means that the deadline for a new voter to register for the runoff election has already passed.
Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for Georgia’s Secretary of State Office, told CNN’s Paula Reid Sunday evening the cutoff is in place because, “Historically, the state constitution of Georgia lays out that the runoff is supposed to be a continuation of the original election.”
The last time we had a run off, voting was permitted on the Saturday after Christmas. The judge ruled that the holiday law didn't apply to run off elections. The only problem I see is that this will be decided by each county. Since my county election board is made up of 2 Republicans and one Democrat, I doubt we will have Saturday voting. Plus, one of the Republicans is an extreme crackpot, who openly talks about who he supports. I was told that poll workers aren't permitted to discuss who they support. Oh well. Republicans cheat. What else is new?A judge ruled that Georgia law allows Saturday voting before the runoff for the U.S. Senate, finding that polling places can open even though they follow state holidays on Thanksgiving and the day afterward that years ago honored Robert E. Lee’s birthday.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox decidedFriday that state law permits counties to offer voting Nov. 26, finding in favor of Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s campaign.
County governments may now choose to offer residents an opportunity to vote on that Saturday in addition to five mandatory weekdays of early voting the following week.
You’d think. I’m afraid of the converse - “we already have the Senate, this isn’t going to gain us anything even if we win so screw it …”I don't think right-wingers are going out to vote for a guy they don't really care for, when the Senate is already lost.
In Abrams I TrustYou’d think. I’m afraid of the converse - “we already have the Senate, this isn’t going to gain us anything even if we win so screw it …”I don't think right-wingers are going out to vote for a guy they don't really care for, when the Senate is already lost.
I don' know about that. The Walker campaigners are out handing out propaganda, telling lies about Warnock and appearing very enthusiastic about voting. I certainly hope that Warnock will easily win, but I'm still concerned because the evangelicals, who are a fairly large component in Georgia, seem to think that Walker is a wonderful man who asked Jesus forgiveness for his sins and is now one of them. it doesn't seem to matter to them that he's totally unqualified to be in the Senate.You’d think. I’m afraid of the converse - “we already have the Senate, this isn’t going to gain us anything even if we win so screw it …”I don't think right-wingers are going out to vote for a guy they don't really care for, when the Senate is already lost.
It's such an obvious voter suppression tactic. It's disgusting.Georgia Supreme Court allows early voting on post-holiday Saturday
This won't help sohy's voting district, since her district has chosen not to allow Saturday voting, but it is interesting that the Republicans argued that there was an "emergency" that needed the court to address because of the harm that it would do to them to make it easier for a lot of folks to cast ballots in the election runoff. It is so obvious that Republicans know they lose elections when more people vote.
Yes it is. I think the fact that my district has decreased early voting to 9 to 5 is another attempt to suppress the vote of younger working voters too. Unless people work in the evenings or can easily take a couple of hours off to go to the polls to vote, it will be difficult for the younger folks to vote early. I have a friend who plans on voting absentee. She told me this morning that she was notified that her ballot was in the mail. I told her that considering how slow the mail has been lately, she'll be lucky if she gets it by Election Day. She will vote in person if necessary, but this run off election is obviously being run in an attempt to make it hard for people, other than us old folks to vote.It's such an obvious voter suppression tactic. It's disgusting.Georgia Supreme Court allows early voting on post-holiday Saturday
This won't help sohy's voting district, since her district has chosen not to allow Saturday voting, but it is interesting that the Republicans argued that there was an "emergency" that needed the court to address because of the harm that it would do to them to make it easier for a lot of folks to cast ballots in the election runoff. It is so obvious that Republicans know they lose elections when more people vote.
Public tax records first reported by CNN show that this year Mr. Walker will receive a homestead tax exemption of roughly $1,500 for his home in the Dallas area, which he listed as his primary residence. He has received the tax relief for his home since 2012, according to an official in the tax appraisal office of Tarrant County, where Mr. Walker’s home is located.
Under the Constitution, Senate candidates are required to reside in the state they will represent only once they are elected. In Georgia, candidates must meet a handful of stipulations to establish residency in the state before filing their bids for office. Mr. Walker’s tax exemption in Texas suggests that his primary residence remains outside Georgia.
A spokesman for Mr. Walker’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
According to the Texas comptroller, Mr. Walker’s use of the tax exemption while running in Georgia is legal. The comptroller’s website states that you may still receive the tax break after moving away from home temporarily, if “you do not establish a principal residence elsewhere, you intend to return to the home, and you are away less than two years.”
Walker has yet to accept Reid's open offer to debate him. He hasn't mentioned it at all. So he's actually proving his point that "It’s easy to talk" on friendly TV programs. But he's apparently too scared to face Reid for a debate that he insisted he would "love [to do] any day of the week."Walker: I’d love to debate Joy Reid. You know, Senator Warnock, he’s a slick talking, smooth dressing guy, but in that debate I took him to school because he found out a lot of things he didn’t know. And I can do the same thing with Joy Reid any time of the day.
I think people sit on TV and they talk. It’s easy to talk. But I’ve been a man that have worked my whole life. I built companies. I’ve signed the front of a paycheck. They’ve never done any of that. They don’t know how to do it. I do. And I say any day of the week she want to debate she can show up here and I’ll debate her as well on any subject. She can come up with the subject, and let’s go at it.
Reid: "Okay, Herschel, come on. It aint but a short walk. We will have you on the ReidOut any day. No, seriously. We reached out to your team. We will have you on the ReidOut any day. And we can debate. Just tell us when.
But I do want to make one thing clear, Herschel. You can't bring your friends. You see your little friends there? You can't bring them. You have to do this debate on your own. So come on. The doors to the church are open, like the pastor says."
So, Walker didn't even know that early voting will be for one week in this run off and he thinks it should be cut back. OMG! How dumb and uninformed is this person? He almost makes MTG look smart, horribly offensive but half way intelligent compared to Walker.As he always does at the end of his remarks, Walker reminded supporters to vote, but called to a staff member off stage, “I don’t think they have early voting, do they?”
Told that there will be voting before the runoff, Walker asked, “They have one day? Two days?”
When the answer of one week came back, a surprised Walker said, “One week! A week? We ought to cut it down from a week. Well, if they give you a week, take that week and do vote.