cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21109313
I went to vote today in Georgia USA. People showed up wearing bed sheets over them. What is this supposed to communicate exactly??
As a Brit looking at this, my first reaction to the picture was "queueing?" - we never have to queue to vote here. Polling stations feel like they outnumber voters sometimes..
The law says that you have to have X number of machines per person in each district. It also says that noone should have to drive more than a specific distance to get to a polling place.
So the GOP drew the maps so that districts dip into very dense parts of the city, but then explode outwards for hundreds of miles. Now that district may have a thousand machines, but they are spread across thousands of square miles so that random farmers out in the middle of BFE have not just one, but multiple polling machines just to themselves, and all the inner city people have a choice of either standing in line for 2 hours to vote, or driving for 2 hours to get to one of those BFE polling stations and then driving 2 hours home.
It's not just, you know, Halloween?
These are trump branded kkk hoods with misquoted portions of the constitution printed on the inside, poorly made in China.
Just sad people wanting attention that you are giving them
You mean taking pictures of people at polling locations?
Which is prohibited in polling locations in Georgia. That is why they were asked to leave. You can wear costumes to vote as long as they don't constitute electioneering. The definition of electioneering can be fairly broad however. Wearing a black lives matter tshirt, for instance, has been considered electioneering.
Is the same true for a blue lives matter shirt, I wonder?
It varies by state, but the simple answer is yes, the same would be true. Neither hypothetical tshirt is likely to lead to allegations of electioneering today given the slogans are no longer central in political discourse.
It is halloween after all 👻👻👻👻👻🎃🎃🎃🎃
Well whatayaknow, Republicans are right
Dead people really are voting
Sharia law is getting out of hand smh
Funny as fuck😂😂
Are they trying to prove that they can vote without being identified or something?
Isn't it generally illegal to film or take photos in a voting location? And now people are further spreading it? Considering how divided this country has gotten, an argument can be made this is dangerous for those in the picture.
It's not quite generally prohibited, but Georgia is one of 12 states where it is prohibited.
I'm not sure a good argument can be made. Being at a polling place doesn't say who you're voting for. I don't see the danger.
The argument goes like this: Georgia, along with 11 other states, has prohibited filming and photos in polling locations, which is a legal prohibition in the public interest that has been upheld by the courts.
That's not an argument that being filmed at a polling place is dangerous.
Show a rabid Trump republican a picture of voters at a polling place and inform them it's in a democratic stronghold and record what they say. I'll wait.
They'd probably lose their shit even if you showed them a picture of a squirel or something innocent like that.
K.
"I saw a photo of you being civically responsible!"
How dare you!
The fact that there are no other images of this is odd, but assuming it is at an early voting location today, perhaps they are pretending to be “ghost voters”:
As that drama played out, readers asked Snopes to look into social media posts and media stories reporting that multiple counties in the U.S. had more registered voters than voting-eligible residents. One such story was published by the Washington Times and headlined, "Judicial Watch finds 1.8 million 'ghost voters' in 29 states, warns of 'dirty elections.'"
Judicial Watch, a right wing legal activist organization, claimed to have discovered in an October 2020 study that "353 U.S. counties had 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens."
Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ghost-voters-in-29-states/
Some further important context, the 'comparison' Judicial Watch made to come to this conclusion was based on, on one side, 'the most recent voter registration data for counties' and on the other, a math-based population estimate collected over the course of five years.
It's kind of like claiming that Johnny, age eighteen, is a different person from Johnny, age thirteen, based on height difference.
Edit: A better analogy might be standing in front of Johnny, taking off your glasses, and then demanding the blurry blob tell you what it did with Johnny.
Or perhaps accusing someone of short changing you based purely on the sound the coins make on the counter.
spooky month 👻
It's a mystery! Get Scooby and the gang! They'll unmask those ghost.
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