Georgians keep up record pace of early voting ahead of Election Day

[Mister Ed]

https://www.aol.com/news/georgians-keep-record-pace-early-200658468.html

As the last day for early voting winds down for this year’s U.S. midterm elections, Georgia voters have continued to head to the polls for pivotal races ahead of Election Day on Nov. 8. According to Georgia Votes, over 2 million votes have already been cast in the 2022 general election, with total turnout almost 25% higher than the 2018 midterm elections.

The high volume of early voters comes a year after a controversial election bill, originally known as the Georgia Senate Bill 202, was signed into law by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

Since November 2020, counties with heavy populations of Black residents like Fulton County and DeKalb County have also seen the number of ballot drop boxes around their neighborhoods limited, as a result of the law. In some counties, drop boxes were reduced to less than a third of the number of drop boxes that were in place for the presidential election.

“They make you go through a lot now because they don’t want Black people to vote,” Eric Fields, a Black South Fulton resident who participated in early voting on Wednesday told Yahoo News. “They’re doing whatever they can because they don’t want us to get out to vote, but we’re voting. Y’all can make us jump through hoops and we’re going to do it because nothing is stopping us from voting. We want to get Stacey Abrams in there.”

This time around, several counties including Fulton are also making voters complete paperwork by hand...

...“They never made us fill out paperwork. We just had to show our ID before. When we first got the clipboard, I said, ‘Why do I have to do all this?’ Fields said, noting how the process changed since the last election. “I think it’s making more Black people say, You know we definitely have to get out and vote, even people who never voted are like, We gotta go vote because they want to stop us.”

(I've bolded some text in these excerpts for emphasis - Mister Ed)

[Lovie777]

1. K & R . . .

RW may reach 50.1, and SA may be closer than the % claim.

[2naSalit]

2. Good to know...

And what I was expecting/hoping for.