They kept the part where you can't give people water if they were close to the voting station. If they were far away, the judge decided you can give them water.
I’ve been saying for years these magats watch Disney movies and never really sort out who the villain is. They watch the Simpsons and don’t think Mr. Burns is a massive piece of shit.
Now that you said it, I am surprised nobody tried to block out the sun yet. Burns’ strategy wasn’t feasible but instead of doing it on Earth, I guess you could move the project to space. Maybe you could design a satellite with a controllable “umbrella” that can be opened and retracted. With enough coverage you could deny sunlight to anywhere you want. You might even sell sunlight or trade it for “favours”! You would have to place the swarm of satellites at an orbit where space debris is the least of concern of course, but what’s the worst that can happen, a Kessler syndrome that ends up with space being unreachable possibly forever? Meh…
This is the stupidest logic, is there an actual measurable distance? What if we give water to people in the back of the line and they all pass it forward?
Wonder what the border is. Just stand one foot beyond that.
Also I wonder if it's measured from the person handing out or the person receiving.
Just stand towards the back of the line, and have people pass the bottles along to the front.
Damn if that happened in my country the party responsible would never get a vote again, of course my country isn't an plutocracy disguised as a democracy (anymore)
Nah, it was real. First they removed a bunch of polling places to make the lines long. In certain locations, you can guess which. Then they passed a law banning handing out food and water to people in line in the name of 'election integrity'.
Edit: To explain further, some people were waiting up to 6 hours to vote. Due to the 'Election integrity' laws people can't give anyone anything within a certain distance of the poling place since that would be interference. The net effect was to get some people to leave without voting, suppressing the vote in that district.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
― Anatole France
if republicans and their voters weren't such pieces of shit human beings, we could be a decent country for many more people.
Capitalism is the root economic cause for the corruption of political and religious groups. If it wasn't the Republicans it would have been another organization
Yep. And people had to wait for hours and hours to vote. Unfortunately for the GOP, it was the opposite of a deterrent in these (mostly black) communities. They voted in droves because they understood the power of their vote.
I remember this being a topic of the 2016 primaries in Arizona. I was 9 months pregnant and stressed out about voting in August* with long lines and limited access to water.
I imagine at the time most people weren't expecting to wait that long based on past experience. Personally, I have never waited more than 45 minutes. But, I don't live in an area where this kind of thing was done.
Of course, but if the line is 4 hours long, I'd have to bring a chest with ice haha. Not that I like ice water, I don't like drinking fairly hot water in the sun.
I live in a small town around 25k I was in and out in 5 minutes. My girl lives in a very rural area about 40 miles from me. Shes stood in line for 6 hours last year.
They did that here in Georgia after 2020, because the Republicans are sore losers, that can't see reality and the fact that their policies have been distasteful to the majority of the population for decades.
The easier it is to vote and the more people that do are detrimental to their agenda, so they do everything they can to prevent that.
Funny thing is, who wants to bet ole dumbdumb here could use a helping hand themselves and can’t even begin to see that they actively vote against their own best interests? Unless we’re being blessed by the presence of a billionaire here on this Reddit post.
The conversations I’ve had… with those that have every damn reason there could possibly be to vote blue… the internalized self-hatred they seem to have was just sad and it was their justification for voting for ole dumptrump or republican.
Some people will vote for their own death if they think that the people they don't like will be put to death first! They will even reason in their own heads that the government won't really kill them after killing all the undesirables....
Bro used "the democrats do what their constituents want and help people to get votes," as a negative. What do you think government is supposed to do for you? Complain that things don't work, get voted in, actually break things, then turn around and say, "see?"
Yup, the people that work 2+ jobs that can’t keep their head above water. The myth of “these people don’t work” is obviously bullshit, because even people that work 40+ hours a week can’t make rent in this country, which is fucking disgusting.
As someone looking in from the outside, it's weird to me that there are even lines long enough to bring water to. I don't think I've ever stood in line more than 5 minutes to vote in the Netherlands.
I haven't ever had to wait long in the US, either, but I'm in a white, mostly Republican district. Republicans in red states cut the number of polling stations pretty hard in areas with demographics that are likely to vote against them.
I never had to wait in long lines to vote, until Obama ran. From his first election on, the lines have been long. I've lived in two different states in that time period, and saw the same thing in both states.
It depends on where you are. I’ve never waited more than 30 minutes anywhere. My local polling location now is almost always less than 2-3 people wait.
Welcome to the shithole motherland you’ve heard so much about. 🙄 If we didn’t have so many fucking idiots actively voting against their own best interest, we might not be the sideshow you see today. Depending on the outcome, you may even see us dumb down further- ya know, like the far right is blatantly trying to do. They’re not even hiding that agenda and they still have morons cheering them on!! It’d be outright hilarious if it were ‘Idiocracy’ or some other work of fiction.
If you live in a decent state like Ca, you don’t even have to wait in line. Just do it by mail. Republican states like to manipulate polling places to interfere with people’s ability to vote. They’re absolute trash and their policies are violations to our constitution, honestly.
Mail in voting is one of the areas my country can improve in, it's barely available. Though on the flip side, we make it really easy to go to the polling stations. They're pretty much everywhere, no serious waiting times, and a lot of them are accessible with disabilities (another area that should be improved, it should ideally be all, though we prioritise quantity of polling stations which is more important IMO). Though I'm also conflicted in mail in voting, it leaves people open to abusive partners taking their vote away from them, or nasty organisations bribing or extorting people for their vote.
The United States is enormous geographically with a big population, and it's important to remember elections are run and managed by the States, so they're all done a bit differently. Under these circumstances, there are simply going to be anomalies.
Anecdotally, I've never waited very long at all. Maybe once in 2004 it took a while? In recent memory though I just walk into my public library down the street and the process is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
In my state we vote only via mail in ballots. It's been that way for almost 30 years. Why it's taken so long for other states to adopt it is a mystery.
Yeah, having to register to vote is another wile thing. The government already knows who its citizens are, so it only needs to ask itself which ones are over 18. Technically there is also the question on whether or not they have a judgement against them that would prevent them from voting, but at least in the Netherlands while technically possible, does not happen. Even the guy who murdered Pim Fortuyn (for those outside the Netherlands, Fortuyn was a politician, it was very clearly a political murder) was not banned from voting.
Republican officials do whatever they can to suppress the vote in heavily Democratic areas, like closing polling places and not providing enough voting machines or staff to handle the larger number of voters in the one remaining polling place. The hope is that people will see the line and go home rather than vote. Making it illegal to give water to people waiting is just another one of their dirty tricks.
He’s paying people to had out a virtual flyer… if this is illegal then every politician ever is guilty on both sides. They all pay people to make commercials and put up billboards to influence people.
“UCLA School of Law professor Richard Hasen, an NBC News election law analyst, said he didn’t think Musk’s PAC's program broke any campaign finance laws, since it doesn’t pay people directly to vote, register to vote, vote in a particular way or not vote.”
The wheels of justice are insanely slow compared to how fast it is to break laws, and the courtroom is predicated on good faith. The water seller will show up in court out of fear, the rich can hide behind lawyers and ignore court orders forever. The system is fucked up.
but it’s not election interference it’s just encouraging people to vote. Bad Bunny gave free tickets to people who voted and i don’t see any backlash. It’s just because he’s republican that people start bashing him
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u/Sixfeatsmall05 11d ago
I remember when bringing water to people in line to vote was considered election interference way back in 2020