Groups mobilize to help voters confronting new election laws

The Associated Press ^ | October 17, 2022 | By SUDHIN THANAWALA (D-AP) GARY FIELDS (D-AP)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

ATLANTA (AP) — Rhonda Briggins spent much of Election Day in 2020 at an Atlanta polling place handing out water and snacks to encourage voters to stay in an hourslong line to cast their ballots, something her historic Black sorority has done for decades in Georgia.

This election, Briggins and some of her thousands of sorority sisters are trading that role for a potentially more contentious one: ensuring voters aren’t disenfranchised by a slew of new voting restrictions passed by the Republican-led Legislature. They include a ban on giving food and drinks to waiting voters.

The law, which a federal judge allowed to go forward this election cycle, was too confusing for the sorority to take a chance doing its traditional ”line relief,” said Briggins, chair of the Delta Sigma Theta Strategic Partnerships Task Force and a member of the sorority’s Decatur alumnae chapter.

Georgia is one of several states where voters will face new hurdles to casting a ballot during the November election under laws passed by Republican-led legislatures following former President Donald Trump’s false claims that voter fraud cost him reelection in 2020. The restrictions have prompted groups that assist voters to reorient themselves so they can avoid running afoul of new barriers.

They anticipate confusion and conflict at the polls, and are redoubling efforts to register and educate voters.

[digger48]

Looks like sororities no longer require an ID to be a sistah

[ExTxMarine]

This “can’t hand out food and water” law is just like the one in Texas...THE CANDIDATES AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES CAN NOT HAND OUT FOOD AND WATER AND SODA, etc... There is absolutely nothing that says a stranger can’t hand you a bottle of water.

It is designed so these candidates and their minions don’t offer soda and food to the homeless or others to vote for Candidate XYZ. These people won’t vote for Candidate XYZ until they get their soda and food. So the candidates’ group of cheaters would have it staged as these hungry people are shipped to the voting center, they get off the bus, they get their soda and food, they are reminded to vote for Candidate XYZ, they vote, they get back on the bus and are shipped to the next voting center! Wash! Rinse! Repeat! Often these people filled out provisional ballots because the name they used doesn’t match anyone on the rolls, or the name was spelled differently than on the rolls, etc... The bottom line, NOW they can’t do that!

The fact this “news” report ignores or chooses to leave out such KNOWN information, isn’t a mistake...it is purposeful...it is designed to convince the reader these changes are wrong-headed. PERIOD!

This is also commonly known as LYING BY OMISSION!

[Chewbarkah]

The next thing you know, it will be illegal to hand out cash for votes.

I wonder if the “sorority” received any funding for the “drinks and snacks”, and from whom.