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edhopper

(33,479 posts) Mon Mar 29, 2021, 09:12 PM Mar 2021

It's not about passing out water to people [View all]

who have to wait on lines for hours to vote.

It's about the fact that they have made it so people have to wait for hours.

This is something that mostly happens in third world countries, and it is designed to keep people from voting.

It doesn't have to be this way.

US election 2020: World reaction to long queues of voters in US
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54532189

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It's not about passing out water to people [View all] edhopper Mar 2021 OP

Indeed! nt Wounded Bear Mar 2021 #1

Right Jerry2144 Mar 2021 #2

Because people don't vote in the 4 weeks early voting or use absentee ballots. Hoyt Mar 2021 #3

Exactly! Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #4

I live outside Philly in South Jersey suburb and never waited more than 10-15 minutes to vote. To Pepsidog Mar 2021 #5

Thank you Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #6

Georgia. All voting precincts should have the same number of working voting machines per number of v keithbvadu2 Mar 2021 #7

I can't believe everyone connected with this travesty isn't so mortified by it... BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #8