Biden Slams Georgia Voting Law as an ‘Atrocity’
By: Susan Milligan (US News)
Bunco Biden has already provided the solution. Biden even went on a grand tour patting himself on the back.
Just have voters present their EIP Card to vote. Each card has an unique identification number. Everyone that has an EIP card was required to provide all their personal information, social security number, and banking info. And voters can use their EIP Card to buy water and food while they wait in line. The government could even use voting to generate venue by selling the data for marketing and analytics. And, of course, Bunco Biden's Republican banker buddies could skim fees.
The solution is self evident from how Bunco Biden stimulates the economy. Let the banks manage voting the same way they manage the Federal treasury. It's a win all the way around. Naturally the banks will win more than anyone else but that's only a trivial bipartisan inconvenience.
Joe Biden and Democrats are politicizing voting to intentionally divide the country. If the government can concoct a convoluted and intrusive system to distribute stimulus money then it's certainly possible to do the same with voter registration and identification.
Are Democrats afraid that secure elections would put them at a disadvantage?
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ON Friday blasted a new Georgia voting law as a barely disguised effort to suppress Black voting power, lambasting in unusually harsh terms the state that helped deliver him the presidency and ensured him a working Democratic majority in the Senate.
The Peach State boasted historic turnout in November and again in January, when runoff elections delivered narrow, but critical victories in the Senate for Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Biden noted.
"Yet instead of celebrating the rights of all Georgians to vote or winning campaigns on the merits of their ideas, Republicans in the state instead rushed through an un-American law to deny people the right to vote. This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country, is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience," the president said in a statement Friday afternoon.
The president's remarks came after Georgia speedily enacted a new law drastically controlling the voting process in the state. It adds restrictions on absentee voting – an important tool for people whose job schedules or family obligations make it harder for them to vote in person, especially as happened in Black majority precincts. Lines were hours long. Voting hours were also limited, making voting harder for people who could not leave work during the day.
The measure also bans outside groups from handing out water and snacks to people standing in line and limits the use of mobile voting buses – a perk that helps the carless get to the polls. It adds voter ID requirements for absentee ballots and bans the use of provisional ballots for most out-of-precinct voting, among other provisions.
"It's an atrocity," Biden told reporters as he prepared to board Marine One en route to Joint base Andrews and then Delaware. "If you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they passed a law saying you can't provide water to people standing in line while they're waiting to vote? You don't need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. You can't provide water for people about to vote. Give me a break."
The law – one of many efforts GOP-controlled state legislatures are making to limit voting, citing election integrity – was immediately derided by voting advocates, who said the measure was a blatant attempt to keep Black voters – essential to putting Biden, Warnock and Ossoff in office – away from the polls.
Noting calls to boycott the state (and corporations headquartered there), Kemp angrily said it was Georgia that was being victimized by such fierce opposition to the law.
"Left-wing groups funded by out-of-state billionaires are … using outrageous false rhetoric to scare you and put millions of dollars in their own pocket. They're threatening to boycott Georgia businesses in the middle of a pandemic because they oppose election integrity," Kemp said Thursday. "According to them, if you support voter ID for absentee ballots, you're a racist. According to them, if you believe in protecting the security and sanctity of the ballot box, you're a quote, 'Jim Crow in a suit and tie,' end quotes."
Biden, in his statement, used that very rhetoric.
"This is Jim Crow in the 21st century. It must end," Biden said, referring to the legacy of segregationist laws enacted after the Civil War. "We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act."
Biden urged the passage of the For the People Act, a sweeping, House-passed package that imposes federal rules for voting on states, which are tasked with running their own elections. The package would, among other things, lower barriers to voting, including automatic voter registration and require voter registration on the day of an election.
Biden also called for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Enhancement Act, which reinstates standards in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that were weakened by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.
Neither measure is likely to pass the Senate if they are filibustered. Democratic lawmakers are debating whether to take the extraordinary step of eliminating the filibuster or reforming it, discouraging abuse of the parliamentary tactic.
Biden said he would take his case "to the American people," including rank-and-file Republicans.
"If you have the best ideas, you have nothing to hide," Biden said in his written statement. "Let the people vote."
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Are Democrats afraid secure elections would be a disadvantage? Bunco Biden has already shown how to reform election security by how he chose to stimulate the economy. Everyone knows money is more important to Democrats than voting; all Democratic political activity revolves around money. If Democrats can create a secure system to give money to people then they can certainly establish a secure system for voting.
C'mon, Bunco Biden. The fix is obvious and Bunco Biden's Republican banker buddies can get kickbacks, too. What's not to like?
He sure thinks that minorities need special government help and protection in order to vote .
How racist of him!
No, Bunco Biden clearly believes that minorities are too stupid and lazy to handle anything as simple as registering to vote and standing in line.
Biden has already provided a solution with his EIP Card stimulus. If the government can use uniquely identifiable and secure cards to distribute money then the government can do the same with voter registration and identification. That wouldn't be any more complex or difficult than EIP Cards.
Hell, people could vote at ATMs using their EIP Card.
Apparently Democrats are scared shitless that they can't compete in secure elections.
Republicans are scared shitless because they know they can't compete if every eligible voter participated in elections. The fact is, you have zero evidence that the elections aren't already secure without the onerous Republican sponsored attempts to limit poor and minority voting with bans on Sunday voting, removal of drop boxes and limiting early or vote by mail ballots.
Americans have been voting without photo ID's for centuries. That fact couple with the fact that there is no evidence of any widespread voter fraud and there are dozens of reasons why an eligible voter may not have a valid photo ID especially if they are living in poverty, are elderly or disabled, should be a clear reason why Republican attempts to restrict voting should be shot down. Even unpaid parking tickets, fines not paid for moving violations, injury or hospitalization, all could keep eligible voters from being able to have valid photo ID at the time of an election. None of those reasons should be why eligible voters are denied their right to vote, especially when the premise for requiring a photo ID is based on the lie of some fantasy voter fraud that Republicans are incapable of proving because they simply have no evidence of it. The rules Republicans are trying to implement are specifically targeting poor and minority voters who they know are more likely to vote Democrat, that's it, period, end of story. Continuing to deny it and deflecting to fantasy voter fraud proves that person is either a gullible dumb ass or a bigoted willing participant in the Republican fraud of disenfranchising eligible voters.
Republicans " had requested data on voting patterns by race and, with that data in hand, drafted a law that would "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision," the court said."
Security measures for EIP debit card transactions are not considered onerous. And people weren't required to do anything to receive an EIP debit card.
The stimulus provides the model solution for election security. Voting wouldn't be any more difficult than using an EIP debit card at an ATM. And the security measures used for EIP debit cards would remove all doubt about election security.
If EIP debit cards are good enough for giving away government money then they should be good enough for voting, too.
Really defining “atrocity” down.
Atrocity: noun - an extremely wicked or cruel act
I'd say intentionally working to deny or disenfranchise eligible voters from voting simply because you know they are likely to vote for your opposition is a pretty wicked and cruel act. Using a lie such as unfounded voter fraud to do so is also definitely wicked.
None of that is happening. Try and fit your definition to reality.
The Democrat's so-called election reforms are directed toward urban voting. The Democrat's are attempting to make it more difficult to run rural elections where Republican hold an advantage.
It's a double edged atrocity.
Actually, that particular kind of provision is not all that unique, or new, in the country. And it’s not an atrocity; it’s a smart safeguard.
Montana:
New York:
Delaware:
And if you are wondering if this has actually been a problem in the past, the answer is “yes, it has.”
Kentucky, 1998: Ellis v. Meeks :