Louisiana Republican wants to force people to submit a positive COVID test to vote by mail

[SheltieLover]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/louisiana-republican-wants-to-force-people-to-submit-a-positive-test-to-vote-by-mail/

According to the Daily Advertiser, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin is proposing a rollback of voter eligibility to cast an absentee ballot ahead of the November election.

Apologies, site will not allow me to copy more text. More at link.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Oh Irony, where is thy sting?

Licking the envelope shut is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

[dmr]

2. Let them (cough, cough) hand deliver it directly to that Republican.

Seems like the common sense to do.

[Vivienne235729]

3. that's ridiculous! If a covid positive person can vote by mail, everyone else can do the same

So tired of this voter suppression. LA residents need to rise up.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. All of the state's covid 19 positive patients should go down to his office and give him a big ol'

hug...what's next? For all of those cancer patients, the same? For all of those terminal ill patients, the same? In short, voters must be sick in order to vote by mail (first of all, the tests for Covid 19 are very tedious and slow, and then what's next, those that want to vote by absentee ballot must have the Covid 19 test results notarized by two witnesses like some states force people to do, prior to sending the requests in for absentee ballots, etc., etc., etc.?).

Now let's see, here it is August 18, and there are 77 days till election day (Wow! Our day of deliverance is coming!).

The republican thugs and scumbags are desperately trying to void the upcoming Nov. 2020 elections in any way they can, so they are trying to make law on the fly and make it immediately effective?

This doesn't seem legal nor I would think the elderly republican voters would want this restriction either, I would imagine that elderly republican voters would be nervous as other voters too, in physically voting in person too.

Man, these republican legislators everywhere want people to die while voting. It's kind of like:

...hey, if you want to vote, you'll have to cross the busiest street in all of creation (w/ no cross walk or stop light), get to the voting place, vote, and cross the street back in order to get back to your vehicle...

People should be harping to everyone about this, that these people don't care about you, are desperate to retain power at literally any cost.

[stillcool]

5. "make the law on the fly"...

great way to put it. And they never suffer consequences.

[Codeine]

6. Isn't the whole point to AVOID becoming Covid positive?

Fucking jackwagons.