Democrats dug themselves an election integrity hole, courts may bury them in it

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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Black people tend to be more concentrated in urban areas. White people living in such areas showed comparable wait times. Poorer people wait longer.

This is by design. There's no reason to have fewer voting resources, be they booths or drop boxes per person in concentrated urban areas.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What do you think of most of these reductions being in areas where Latinos and whites are in far larger numbers than blacks? If by design then this seems akin to spraying a crowd with gunfire because there's a criminal hiding amongst them.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The larger counties will suffer the largest reductions in drop boxes. Which will reduce democrat voters ability to vote more than republicans, because urban areas tend democrat.

Republicans know that [b]allot drop boxes saw heavy usage in mostly Democratic metro Atlanta counties during their rollout last year, far more than in rural Republican areas of Georgia, and so the seek to limit them, in the hope of disenfranchising more democratic voters.

[–]Trajan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They still have post boxes and polling offices, don't they?

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, they've only reduced the number of drop boxes, reduced the hours of the polling stations, closed the polling stations on Sunday, because that's when a lot of black americans vote after church, made it illegal to offer water to people waiting in a queue to vote, and shortened the period of time that registering to vote by mail can be done, while increasing the red tape around it.

But the post office still exists, and the reduced-hours polling stations exist.