Subj : Re: Counting votes
To : Gerhard Strangar
From : Dan Cross
Date : Sat Nov 14 2020 09:34 am
On 12 Nov 2020 at 06:24p, Gerhard Strangar pondered and said...
GS> I've heard of people waiting in line for over an hour. But what's going
GS> on there? Our polling stations are open on Sundays from 8:00 to 18:00
GS> hours with 500-1000 voters per station and I'd say they're pretty much
GS> equipartitioned over time. Only when church is out there might be up to
GS> 20 people at once, but I don't think it takes more than five minutes for
GS> all of them to vote.
What's going on is that the American right has realized that it
is a dying minority, and the only way it can hang onto power is
via nefarious means. Thus, they will try and disenfranchise
voters or otherwise use authoritarian tactics in desperate (and,
frankly, pathetic) bids to stay relevant. Reducing the number
of polling stations, making it harder for people (particularly
Black and Brown people), gerrymandering congressional districts
to give them an edge in the legislature even though they're strictly
a minority most places.... That's what leads to these absurdly
long lines etc.
