I'm about to become wildly unpopular ...

[oldsoftie]

342. Regarding GA; that headline screams but the story whispers.

"Most of the absentee ballot applications rejected last year were duplicates of applications that had already been submitted, often because voting groups or local governments sent out multiple forms to voters."
So most were probably already registered. Also, in GA, much like most southern states, republicans are more likely to use absentee ballots than democrats. So how many mentioned above were republicans & how many Democrats? Do we know?
We have early voting starting the fourth Monday before an election. Thats plenty of time. We USED to have ONE day. Every one I have spoken with who have older parents no longer driving have gotten the State ID now required; since their DL long expired . I have taken 3 people to the election office to get a voter ID. Every volunteer here has reached out to everyone on our voter lists. There are radio & TV ads. Yes, they purge voter lists. And everyone can call their office to see if they're on that list. I call every 2 yrs. If you're on it, fix it. Or better yet, start voting; because most on those lists haven't voted recently or moved to other counties or states.
There just is very little reason to not vote here regardless of the new laws. Some of which are really silly, yes. And some of which I imagine will be tossed. I don't think the ID part will be; because its free.

Now TEXAS, they pretty much just put into writing "If you're black you don't qualify".