Re: Want to rant about rightwings and conservatives? This is your thread.
Vote by Mail doesn't affect only minority voters. It affects everyone. IT WILL eventually bite Republicans in the butt. Their voters are getting older. The guy that is now 65 years old, in 8 years he will be 73 years old and he may end up not voting because he can't do it easily by mail.
THAT SAID
- a ban on moving drop boxes within 30 days of elections. <== That's good.
- a requirement that they would all have to be monitored by elections officials whenever they're open <=== that's mandatory and should certainly be done.
- The bill would also [...] prohibit election officials from using private money to help pay for election administration <=== very good
- restrict third-party voter registration organizations <=== no idea what that is, so I don't know whether it is good or bad
Now, about this:
"add new powers for partisan election observers and give DeSantis the leeway to appoint replacements to fill certain local political positions vacated by people running for higher office"
Florida is neck-to-neck between Democrats and Republicans. That will bite Republicans in the butt as they will not hold Florida for ever. Very shortsighted and very undemocratic. It is bad under Republicans and it will be bad under Democrats. Once democrats win Florida, I doubt they will be rushing to abolish that part of the law.
"Democratic state Sen. Audrey Gibson said the measure was an "attempt to create a monarchy" by giving the governor more power." It is. It clearly is.
Let's see if Audrey Gibson would say the same when a democrat is the monarch governor
"Democrats blasted the bill as being aimed at restricting minority voters and Democrats, who relied on mail voting mail and drop boxes in significant numbers during the presidential election."
The bill is aimed at restricting mail-in-voting.
The PAST election, voting by mail was much more democrat than Republican because of the Pandemic and because Trump told his cult to risk their lives to vote in person for the lulz.
In the NEXT elections, vote by mail will not be as important AND it will not be predominantly democrat.
So... Republicans simply anger people and lose votes from their older people in 2022 and 2024. Everyone should be blasting the bill as being aimed at restricting old and disabled people votes. That's what the bill does. It does not disadvantage predominantly minorities.
It is, simply put, a stupid measure for the Republicans, giving very questionable powers to the governor that NOW happens to be Republican but may not be Republican in a few years and then Republicans would say "oh, Feck".
Last edited by alhoon; May 02, 2021 at 08:54 AM.
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