Strike one for the desperate Republican Walker boosters..

What's funny is that conservative counties, in solidarity with the Republican message against Saturday voting, may not offer Saturday voting, while Democratic stronghold counties will.

The Replubicans lost the case, and then will double dip by denying voters that tend to support them the chance to vote on Saturday. While their opponents will vote in great numbers of Saturday.

Hoisted on their own petard.

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Until it’s blocked again.

Didnt they also drastically limit the length of time to resolve a runoff just last year, leading to things like this being necessary to give ppl the chance to vote again?

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Yes. They figured if they made it harder, people who have to work, and have trouble taking off from their job, and might have trouble getting to the polls, or might not be willing to stand in long lines in undertstaffed urban places, might not vote.

While their demographic of white collar. retired, work-at-home, etc could have an easier time voting in well staffed convenient suburban voting places.

> Didnt they also srastically limit the length of time to resolve a runoff just last year, leading to things like this being necessary to give ppl the chance to vote again?

Exactly. They were/are gambling that these changes will be a bigger problem for Democratic voters than Republican voters and will help them to win the runoff.

Why bother to try to court new voters by adjusting your message to what they want when you can just prevent them from voting, or at least try to keep their votes from being counted? Isn't that what Democracy is all about?

/sarcasm

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I don’t know if they actually want it blocked. They just want to toss a baseless complaint at a court for the theatrics of it.

They just want to be able to create plausible controversy so they can claim the election was “stolen”

My guess is to get ready for talking points to emerge (after Warnock wins) that Warnock “only won” the election because “activist courts” and “crooked Democrats” paid and bussed “illegal voters” on a Saturday to these “fake” polling sites to cast “fraudulent” votes.

Is that a srastic comment?

They would have to go to federal court to block it now... which is highly unlikely to succeed.

They technically would have to show that there was a violation of the US Constitution which does not exist. If they score a Trump judge, the lack of jurisdiction thing won't matter.

Next: GA Republicans file suit to eliminate Saturday from the calendar.

More people getting to vote is a good thing, even if they are voting for handegg guy who has no clue what he's doing or why he's even running.

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"Voting? That's not what elections are about!" -- Republicans

I fully support Republicans making it hard for Republicans to vote for Republicans to own the libs.

Seriously this is like the 3rd time in a week that I've read this headline.

Republicans really hate it when people are able to vote.

SCOTUS has said state election laws are generally outside the purview of federal courts. And this was recent.

r/leopardsatemyface, indeed.

They want to lose so that they can fight "the stolen election". It is all they have now as a party. It is the entire platform of the GOP right now.

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I normally would, but it’s a statewide election. There are plenty of liberals living in conservative counties and I want them to be able to vote on Saturday.

Yeah, I don't actually support even self-imposed voter suppression; it sets a terrible precedent, and will only exacerbate the baseless claims of electoral malfeasance the Republicans will predictably make if they lose, further weakening our democracy.

Well it’s that pesky thing that makes them loose elections.

They know that the public opinion is wildly further left than it appears, the popular vote is blue. Gerrymandering and shitty voter turnout means that it’s not a true picture of what the people want.

We should do what Australia does and require people to vote or they get fined

>We should do what Australia does and require people to vote or they get fined

That will just end up with people fucked over because they have to work two jobs and each employer can say "go vote in your free time". Voting day needs to be made a federal holiday (or for state/local elections, a local holiday) and workers who have to work should get a federally guaranteed right to mail-in or early voting ffs.

If they win I bet they'll say the general election was rigged that's why they did so poorly in it leading to a runoff. At this point if they think lying about the election will benefit them they will do it regardless of the facts.

>They technically would have to show that there was a violation of the US Constitution which does not exist.

That's basically the argument in Moore v Harper. If the ISL theory is accepted by the Court, a state court would have no authority over this matter.

Oh agreed, if it was made mandatory it would also have to be a holiday, and mail in would have to be available at all times. Now that mail in ballots are more normalized, you have weeks to drop it off, and don't need to figure out work plans. It should still be easier regardless, but that does help.

That precedent would allow California and New York and every other Blue state to make every House seat Blue, and Democrats would take the House forever.

They’re not necessarily stupid in that regard. Saturday voting could still turn out more Warnock voters than Walker even in red counties. So although voting is more inconvenient in red counties, Republicans would still come out ahead.

Not necessarily. Currently states with entirely blue legislatures make up only 149 House seats. Split legislatures make up another 106 seats leaving 180 seats in red states.

The conservative counties that don't offer saturday voting generally don't need to, as their small population is generally not difficult to serve during the normal voting times. The saturday voting helps cities, with greater populations and greater densities of strict schedules with significant travel times to get to and from work.

Split states would be required to abide by their actual election results, but are trending Blue, at which point they would be Blue forever.

idk... voting sounds like a lot of work to put on the general populous. It makes a whole lot more sense to just have one guy run the show and not worry the people. Now of course they will also need a special police force to make sure no one is trying to make trouble, but that is just the price we need to pay for freedom.

The election is always rigged, when they win, it was rigged because it should have been a blow out. Both Trump and Bolsonaro made comments like that the last time they each won.

Yeah that's my point they're gonna bitch and moan about it no matter what we do. If they wanna make a galaxy brain move and hurt themselves in their own confusion I say we let them.

"What, the other guy gets to vote? Fine, in protest, I won't vote! That'll show 'em!"

"Uh... yah, you do that."

It wouldn't be the first time they've done it. Their messaging about not trusting elections probably caused a lot of Republicans to not vote (just speculation).

I also read a report that looked at expected political affiliation and death rates of covid by population and there was a bug enough gap in the right states that it could have given trump the win.

I would fully believe their rhetoric hurt them enough in the last two elections it caused them to lose. It could be the mainstream republicans know this and is why they're trying to distance themselves from Trump and the election conspiracy stuff now.

It’s LOSE. Not LOOSE

“That’s not what erections are about” - - Hershel Walker probably

If it's anything like Texas, the court will allow it, then after the results start coming in, the Republicans will challenge it if the provisional ballots that are cast outside of normal voting hours sway the election out of their favor. Fuckin traitors.

> Hoisted on their own petard.

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/192b8184-fed0-4804-b672-0725dcd1ca00

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It's not setting a precedent at all; it's a continuation of the same Republican rhetoric and tactics around voter suppression that they've been running on for over a quarter of a century.

For the sake of all fucks, please vote.

Republican officials suppressing Republican votes would be a new one.

Not really, recent data shows that more Republicans have died from Covid than Democrats. So plenty of Republican policies have already led to the suppression of Republican votes to a permanent end.

To be serious though, vote suppression for Republicans has similar logic as running attack ads--it brings votes down for both candidates, but on the whole the net result favors your side.

Uh, no they don't. They are already fighting "stolen" elections. If they win it isn't stolen.

Yes, voter suppression by design disproportionately suppresses the vote of one group over another. Not sure what your point is?

I'm responding to your comment about "suppressing Republican votes," and how there's nothing new about Republicans suppressing Republican votes as a means of suppressing even more Democratic votes, even if only in theory and it potentially backfiring.

Not sure what you are confused about, but this conversation feels like it's kind of going in circles. Take care buddy .

Reminds me of those rightwing folks who declared they weren't voting anymore because its all rigged. Nice messaging GOP.

I was talking about Republicans specifically targeting Republican majorities with voter suppression being a new thing. You're saying it's not because when Republicans have targeted Democrat majorities with voter suppression, a small number of Republicans were affected via collateral damage.

I have no idea why you think an incidental amount collateral damage is the same thing as being the large, explicit target, but that's where the confusion comes from.

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Just the fact that voter suppression is seen as a valid strategy by republicans is just insane.

When Walker loses, he'll spend months yammering about the Dems stealing people's erections.

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Yeah... When there's no line, it's no big deal to just swing by the community center and cast your vote after work. I was in and out in 7 minutes, and 6 of that was reading through a dozen ballot measures.

Everytime we shut down a child porn ring, another republican loses his erection.

> What's funny is that conservative counties, in solidarity with the Republican message against Saturday voting, may not offer Saturday voting, while Democratic stronghold counties will.

And then when poll results show that Saturday votes tilted heavily Democratic, they'll scream and howl citing it as evidence that the Saturday votes are faked and that the election was rigged.

"Break it on purpose and then complain that it's broke" is the only strategy the GOP has toward anything in government, ever.

Are you not entitled time off to vote? It’s not a holiday in Canada but it is your right to get time off to vote if you work during election days.

You are entitled to unpaid time off to vote. But people work quite some distance from their polling place and many people don't own cars. They have to decide if getting a few unpaid hours off is worth it, or will even provide enough time to get to the polling place in time.

Even in places where it's a holiday won't help the poor. Big businesses and companies close on the holidays, but low wage jobs run every day of the year.

Suburban polling places are well funded and abundant. Most people need not wait but a few minutes. But poorer areas have fewer polling places per person and waits of many hours is not uncommon. This is by design.

The fact that there even is a runoff is a giant loss for America.

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That all makes sense, thanks. Where I live (semi rural Canada) there are plenty of stations and its never takes me more than a few minutes to vote, although I always vote early.

I love your username.