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Voter Suppression

06 Sunday Dec 2020

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            I used to be a Democrat. I changed to being a Republican during late Reagan-Bush years. I thought we had a chance for a third party with Ross Perot and now I vote for the best one of either major party.

            Voting means a lot to me and I don’t do absentee or early voting because it would lose some of the aura. Voting is critical to being a citizen of the United States. My first vote was for LBJ and I have voted for the winner sometimes and sometimes not. That is why I consider suppression so totally reprehensible.

            Over the last few elections the Republican Party has been suppressing votes by keeping people from voting and tossing out votes. A black Democratic woman would have been the Georgia Governor if the Secretary of State (the winner) hadn’t suppressed voting in Black areas. The Republican Texas Governor reduced the ballot drop off boxes to one per county. The vast majority of those in multi-million population cities were Democrats. The Republicans just lost a state and federal suit to not count 125,000 votes from drive through voting in the big cities. Several states have had their absentee votes counting questioned in court. Even more upsetting is when gun toting idiots stand around voting places questioning people they think might vote Democratic.

            I hope the next President jails for several years anyone involved with voter suppression or destroying ballots as a Republican did two years ago in North Carolina. It is despicable which ever party or group does it.

State Voter Suppression

06 Sunday Dec 2020

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            I live in a rural subdivision. My voting place is a church and I don’t think I have seen more than three other voters lined up like those in Georgia and some other Republican states

            In Texas, the governor restricted the drop-off ballot boxes Democrats were more likely to use to one per county. That may work in Grundy County, but not for four of America’s biggest cities with a population of over a million. Georgia restricted the number of polling places in areas with high Democratic registered voters. Both are voter suppression.

            Several states are now vote-by-mail only and had no problems with counting votes. Some other states without experience in massive mail voting had lots of problems. Some started counting before November 3, some as voting day started, some at the end of the day, and the worst was ones that didn’t start to count until all the in-person votes were counted. This created lots of problems with some mail-ins still not counted on the 17th.

            Registration varies from state to state. Some allow for day of and other must present lots of documents far in advance. Some must present a picture I.D. and others a matching signature with documents. My signature is vastly different each time.

            Before the next federal election in 2022 a uniform bill needs to be passed and used to reduce, if not eliminate, suppression and late counts. One addition should be the person in charge of voting cannot be running for an office in that election as in Georgia governor’s election. The bill wouldn’t end all voter suppression and false claims of fraud but it would go a long way to making voting the process we say it is.