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Now Charlie Kirk, who is a piece of shit like Sean Hannity, thinks long voting lines are a bad thing...

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Maybe he should join the people who want to make voting easier for the American public (instead of the actual stuff they do like trying to kill voting by mail, closing early voting sites, cutting down on the number of early voting days, etc).


 
beefheart said:
What a little asshole. Those of us who voted by mail had no issues.

And, because of that, most of our candidates won....
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He is the next Rush Limbaugh. This country and our people will suffer for decades because of him.
 
CaughtInThe said:
He is the next Rush Limbaugh. This country and our people will suffer for decades because of him.
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Charlie Kirk is a pasty doughy punk with the charisma of a thumb. Definitely not the next Rush Limbaugh.
 
Airyaman said:
Charlie Kirk is a pasty doughy punk with the charisma of a thumb. Definitely not the next Rush Limbaugh.
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With an audience that continues to grow.
 
Lines are inconvenient but do not stop people from voting.

If you're in line before the polls close you get to vote.

Charlie's story isn't about someone who was disenfranchised. It's about someone too lazy (or too busy) to wait.
 
less right said:
Lines are inconvenient but do not stop people from voting.

If you're in line before the polls close you get to vote.

Charlie's story isn't about someone who was disenfranchised. It's about someone too lazy (or too busy) to wait.
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Agreed

But why should anyone wait more than 30 minutes?
 
If that voter claims they could not vote on 11/8 because of long lines then they obviously did not try to get in line to vote until after 7:00 PM on Election Day.

I am betting, suspecting, they tried to show up at the last minute, saw a line and left.

That is because Arizona and Maricopa County are governed by the Rule that anyone in line at 7:00 PM will get to vote no matter how long the Poll Workers have to stay to facilitate this being done.

It is the same Ruling as we used in Illinois in Polling Places and here in Idaho. What takes place is at Poll Closing Time a Poll Worker is poised to stand behind the last voter in line at Poll Closing time and they are to inform anyone wanting to vote that the Polls are Closed. The Polling continues until the last voter is finished and leaves the Polling Place.

Kirk has already been smacked down for spreading "Pants on Fire" anecdotes about alleged "disenfranchisement" etc. regarding Voting in Arizona.

The lady is obviously lying to Kirk and he is running with her lie.
 
less right said:
Lines are inconvenient but do not stop people from voting.

If you're in line before the polls close you get to vote.

Charlie's story isn't about someone who was disenfranchised. It's about someone too lazy (or too busy) to wait.
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Succinctly put and spot on!
 
CaughtInThe said:
Agreed

But why should anyone wait more than 30 minutes?
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Only, with rare exceptions, because of reasons under control of the election authorities but not controlled by the election authorities.
 
CaughtInThe said:
Agreed

But why should anyone wait more than 30 minutes?
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They shouldn’t, which was the basis for the complaint (thread topic). By allowing multiple (aka ‘early’) days of (in person) voting, having long wait times at polling places is more easily avoided.
 
I guess Charlie Kirk missed this nugget of wisdom from Paul Weyrich:

“How many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome: good government? They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
 
CaughtInThe said:
Agreed

But why should anyone wait more than 30 minutes?
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In AZ has a robust mail-in system nobody should be standing in line for more than 30 minutes. I also think that tweet is BS because my understanding is they have drop boxes at the polling stations for same day drop offs. It was the large number of same day drop off ballots that accounted for the length of time to count the votes.
 
And just like that... Republican intentions to keep Democrats from voting gathers up one of their own.
 
Kirk should look at people who have gone out of their way to make voting as painful and cumbersome a process as possible, not those who advocate for more early and mail voting in order to solve this very problem.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
They shouldn’t, which was the basis for the complaint (thread topic). By allowing multiple (aka ‘early’) days of (in person) voting, having long wait times at polling places is more easily avoided.
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The basis for the thread topic was also exposing Kirk and his lies and his promoting the lies of others.

That anecdotal woman's anecdotal story is false. Kirk used a lie as a partisan cudgel to bash the Election in Arizona.

Maricopa County fact checked Kirk in real time.



So, believe an anonymous woman who shows no proof, and a partisan hack who has nothing but an obviously false claim, or believe the Election Authorities doing their thankless job, once more, to be as accommodating to the Electorate as possible on Election Day and have the real time capability to monitor line time in the counties Polling Places?

I don't think the SMART money is on Kirk.
 
LouC said:
The basis for the thread topic was also exposing Kirk and his lies and his promoting the lies of others.

That anecdotal woman's anecdotal story is false. Kirk used a lie as a partisan cudgel to bash the Election in Arizona.

Maricopa County fact checked Kirk in real time.



So, believe an anonymous woman who shows no proof, and a partisan hack who has nothing but an obviously false claim, or believe the Election Authorities doing their thankless job, once more, to be as accommodating to the Electorate as possible on Election Day and have the real time capability to monitor line time in the counties Polling Places?

I don't think the SMART money is on Kirk.
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What was happening at the vast majority of polling places has no bearing on what (allegedly) happened at some polling place(s) among the minority of polling places. It’s like, since the vast majority of vehicle crashes didn’t result in fatalities (which is a fact), alleging that (some or any) vehicle crash fatalities occur is ”a lie”.
 
less right said:
Lines are inconvenient but do not stop people from voting.

If you're in line before the polls close you get to vote.

Charlie's story isn't about someone who was disenfranchised. It's about someone too lazy (or too busy) to wait.
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i was turned away 2 minutes before polls closed because an uber driver was slow. nobody i told cared. the strict voting laws here are designed to disenfranchise black people and urban voters. there is no gop with week long voting

the supreme court just approved legally drawing out black people. the gop refuses to have any point of breaking away from the cult
 
ttwtt78640 said:
They shouldn’t, which was the basis for the complaint (thread topic). By allowing multiple (aka ‘early’) days of (in person) voting, having long wait times at polling places is more easily avoided.
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the gop refuses to hear bills that establish week long voting, the gop refused an offer for voter id in excgange for no gerrymandering. you elect the people who do this and then demand to complain - but not to really do anything. just write down "it justifies further violence," proceed
 
Mustachio said:
i was turned away 2 minutes before polls closed because an uber driver was slow. nobody i told cared. the strict voting laws here are designed to disenfranchise black people and urban voters. there is no gop with week long voting

the supreme court just approved legally drawing out black people. the gop refuses to have any point of breaking away from the cult
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You literally had all day to vote, and you could have voted by mail.

Try harder next time.
 
CaughtInThe said:
Maybe he should join the people who want to make voting easier for the American public (instead of the actual stuff they do like trying to kill voting by mail, closing early voting sites, cutting down on the number of early voting days, etc).


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It's the republican playbook. Every accusation is a confession and it's always somebody else's fault.
 
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