ATLANTA (AP) — The chance to cast ballots on Georgia’s first day of in-person early voting Monday had thousands of people waiting for hours to make their voices heard.
Even if there wasn’t a pandemic, the hoops Republicans insist on making people jump through to vote is disgusting and for that alone should be voted out. All of them…every…last…one.
“We’d prepared as much as we could, but there’s only so much space in the rooms and parking in the parking lot. We’re maxing out both of those,” Cobb County Elections and Registration Director Janine Eveler said. “People are double parking, we have gridlock pretty much in our parking lot,” she added.
“Sadly,” she continued, “the county lacks any other buildings or facilities with larger parking lots. We are a simple, humble people.”
I think this is what is going to happen nationally. I bet the Republicans are shitting bricks. This kind of early voting is good news for Democrats. They are getting their people to the polls.
That will be me in a couple of days. I requested an absentee ballot. It arrived. The nonsense that Republicans will attempt to nullify my vote through the legal process means that my absentee ballot will be relinquished at the polling station when voting in-person.
I never expect people to share my thoughts and motivations. But I will declare –it looks like people may be just as sick of this perpetual Trumpian bullshit as I am.
I was going to vote by mail but instead voted in person 13 days ago. It was good. What I find funny is Trump pushed so hard on mail-in he may have driven early in person. Guess who are flocking to vote early.
The photo is from Decatur, GA in Dekalb County. That city is practically a ghost town for Republican voters. Funny thing: the Republican Party of Dekalb County rents office space that is probably the loneliest place in the whole world, after the store that sells cat milk smoothies.
Is this voter suppression or vote enthusiasm? I seem to lean toward voter enthusiasm. Did the state mandate onerous restrictions on the counties limiting the number of early voting sites? Or were the counties completely overwhelmed by the number of people that wanted to vote early today? I hope this is what a blue wave looks like.