A taste of Prager U

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

[That statement is 100% gratuitous fatuousness.

Not that facts matter right now...

- Doc

the guy who wrote the ADA is objecting to its mis-use as a tool to suppress voting. Take it up with him if you think his comment is "100% gratuitous fatuousness."

I'm having a hard time keeping a straight face as I copy your quote. But, by all means, go down swinging.

How do the disabled vote if the polling station isn't ADA compliant?

- Doc

[_Lemmie]

[That statement is 100% gratuitous fatuousness.

Not that facts matter right now...

- Doc

the guy who wrote the ADA is objecting to its mis-use as a tool to suppress voting. Take it up with him if you think his comment is "100% gratuitous fatuousness."

I'm having a hard time keeping a straight face as I copy your quote. But, by all means, go down swinging.

How do the disabled vote if the polling station isn't ADA compliant?

- Doc

You already answered that upthread.

But back to the topic, it's a pretty powerful statement he's making. Plus, Malone is admitting the SofS put him up to his recommendation.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

So, you posting a quote about the ADA guy bitching about the disabled not being able to vote, knowing full well they're accommodated, was disingenuous and arguing in bad faith. Got it.

I still don't see how complying with the ADA was the commission's problem. That's on the building owner.

Or. You know. The hundreds of likely voters who would probably drive 50 miles to the Cracker Barrel, could just drive to an alternate location.

Or mail their ballots.

Or not.

How exactly would these voters not be able to vote again?

- Doc

[_Lemmie]

I still don't see how complying with the ADA was the commission's problem.

upthread, you weren't arguing that, so it's difficult to take your objections seriously now. But like I said, go down swinging. You do you.

Back to the topic: it looks like Malone is ratting out Kemp. The repercussions from that will be interesting.

[_canpakes]

How do the disabled vote if the polling station isn't ADA compliant?

- Doc

Alternately, if the disabled can participate 100% in voting without needing to set foot in a polling station, why would pollling stations need to be shut down for not being ADA compatible? ; )

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

How do the disabled vote if the polling station isn't ADA compliant?

- Doc

Alternately, if the disabled can participate 100% in voting without needing to set foot in a polling station, why would pollling stations need to be shut down for not being ADA compatible? ; )

Well. According to my paralyzed brother he likes to get out of the for things. I personally think he should be a recluse, but apparently disabled people have lives or something.

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

I'm not sure how easy mail-in ballots are in Georgia. When Doc was talking up the ease of absentee voting in the state, he linked a form that actually limits it to a small subset of the population and requires the form be turned in 180 days in advance of an election, both of which are things that would whittle down the voting pool considerably. In addition to all the other things he's misled about in this thread, you have a picture of someone who isn't a reliable reporter of facts like that. But even if it is easy as pie, it remains the case that some people will feel less comfortable with that as a process and drop out of voting if they lose their preferred method of same-day physical polls. If you close polls selectively on the basis of partisan affiliation or race, then you are creating a group of voters who have multiple voting options and those that have to work harder to have the same options. This is worse that DocCam's "separate, but equal is great!" reasoning. Or rather, it's how separate, but equal invariably turns out where one side enjoys more access than the other. Again, the whole nature of a large chunk of voter suppression is to create unequal burdens among different voters so that people on the fence of voting drop out. That's how Jim Crow voter suppression techniques like literacy tests and poll taxes worked. In fact, in the case of literacy tests, if I recall correctly, it was common practice to deliberately give black would-be voters complicated passages to read and comparable white voters easy ones. It does not good to respond to that by simply noting that if you want to vote so bad, then learn to read at a high level. It's an issue of basic fairness that should've been ingrained in you by the time you graduated high school. Some unequal burdens are inevitable, but voting access should be a right and the government should be trying to reduce unequal burdens, not create them.

There's been enough coverage of this issue to know that that polling locations in predominately Democratic oriented counties were targeted for shut down with the ADA as a sham justification, though the closings didn't seem to break it down to the precinct level for micro-targeting.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Here is Kemp's statements on Randolph county, that are apparently too dufficult for our board's Georgia electorate's protectors to copy and paste:

https://www.kempforgovernor.com/posts/news/abrams’-distractions-–-randolph-county

Abrams’ Distractions – Randolph County
News
Abrams’ poll numbers are sinking and Democrats need a “scandal” to distract Georgia voters. They found one in Randolph County.

Randolph County is considering a proposal to consolidate voting precincts before the November 6th General Election. Ironically, the Georgia Democratic Party and all of their left-wing allies are raising cane and accusing local leaders – who are Democrats – of voter suppression.

As usual, they are also desperately pointing fingers at Kemp – even though he adamantly opposed the proposal from the beginning.

Here are the facts:

- Kemp was the first official to urge Randolph County to abandon their precinct consolidation proposal.

- Randolph County elections officials make the decisions on polling locations – not Secretary Kemp or the Secretary of State’s Office.

- Randolph County is controlled by a Democrat majority on the county commission, who then appoint the elections board members.

- The polling precinct location changes have to be approved by the Democrat on the local board of elections.

- The Democratic Party of Georgia, Stacey Abrams, and other left-wing radicals should call their own Democrat elected and appointed officials in Randolph County to solve the problem.

Media Statement:

“Let’s call this what it is: A desperate attempt by Stacey Abrams to distract voters from her tax scandal. Brian Kemp was the first to urge local leaders to reject the proposal. Liberals are still freaking out. Why? Because they know Abrams made a million bucks, refused to pay taxes, but managed to loan her campaign $50,000. The left knows this scandal is sinking Abrams and they desperately want to distract voters.”

– Ryan Mahoney, Kemp for Governor

I love that you guys set yourselves up to look like fools. Absolutely love it.

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

“Let’s call this what it is: A desperate attempt by Stacey Abrams to distract voters from her tax scandal. Brian Kemp was the first to urge local leaders to reject the proposal. Liberals are still freaking out. Why? Because they know Abrams made a million bucks, refused to pay taxes, but managed to loan her campaign $50,000. The left knows this scandal is sinking Abrams and they desperately want to distract voters.”

– Ryan Mahoney, Kemp for Governor

I love that you guys set yourselves up to look like fools. Absolutely love it.

- Doc

I look forward to you accepting tweets from Donald Trump saying, "No Collusion - Witch Hunt" as a decisive refutation him being involved in anything untoward. After all, he said so.

[_honorentheos]

I love that you guys set yourselves up to look like fools. Absolutely love it.

- Doc

It isn't disputed that Kemp publicly came out saying the attempt to close the poll stations should be abandoned, but this was after it was protested by the ACLU. His politically expediant opposition is in contradiction with Malone's statements at public meetings that the closures came highly recommended by the Secretary of State's office. Then he backed off. But now it seems he's figuring out that loyalty to someone who has thrown you under the bus isn't worth it and the picture now is he was following orders from the SoS. So, yeah. I guess the guy trying to purge the voting rolls and pushing closures for years, recommended the hiring of Malone by the County, and gave Malone the direction to advise a number of county election boards to close polling stations based on ADA non-compliance...that guy is totally the star one hitches themselves to to avoid looking like a fool.