Reagan's "Shining City on a Hill," is losing it's luster. It is like the Taliban is running the GOP.

Just idiotic

On June 30, 1982, Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of the anti-Jim Crow "Voting Rights Act." At that time, he said:

''As I've said before, the right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.This legislation proves our unbending commitment to voting rights. It also proves that differences can be settled in good will and good faith.To so many of our people--our Americans of Mexican descent, our black Americans--this measure is as important symbolically as it is practically. It says to every individual, 'Your vote is equal, your vote is meaningful, your vote is constitutional.' ''

That does not sound like what we hear coming from the Tangerine Tyrant's GOP these days.

How exactly are anyone making it more difficult to vote?

Closing down voting places, changing voting days of the week and times. Hundreds of Republican bills are pending. Each has its own take on how to reduce the number of Black votes. If you go to an independent news source, this information is easy to find. After losing the election, did you think Republicans would make it easy for Black Americans, who they credit with costing them the presidency, to vote?

Name one bill #

I won't be a dancing monkey for you. The bills are out there and many. Do your own damn ressearch to prove me wrong. Name a Republican state that does not have a bill to change voting, pending.

Here is a recent news story on the subject:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/28/politics/voter-suppression-restrictive-voting-bills/index.html

The problem isnt that there's Bill's out there to change the voting procedures. The problem is persons such as yourself dont actually read the Bill's but instead take CNN's word for it.

I have done my due dilligence. I have read the same information from many trusted sources, and gone online to read several bills. Don't jump to conclusions, Sonny. I read information from a number of sources for about ten hours a day.

Then show me in this bill - https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/201121
Where hours are restricted, where blacks will have a more difficult time voting, where the early voting was shortened... anywhere where it made it more difficult to vote.
I'll save you the 96 page read... it doesnt.

In the 2020 election in Georgia, Fulton County had 38 drop boxes. This bill cuts that number to 8. And, they are no longer accessible after business hours. So the advantage to lower income people to use this method of voting to save time off-tithout pay-from work is negated. You can drop off your library book after hours, but not your vote. In fact the new law restricts all voting to 9am-5pm. That also discriminates against low income workers. In many states, in person voting starts at 7am or so and ends at 7 to 8 pm, to accomodate as many voters as possible. It narrows the window to request an absentee ballot from 49-days to 29-days. It leaves in Sunday voting but restricts it to two Sundays. Blacks are traditionally "Souls to the Polls," voters. A good Samaritan handing a bottle of water to a parched voter in a long line could be jailed for 6-months and fined $1,000. (I thought Republicans were driven by Christian ethics.)

I have not read the entirety of this and the dozens of others that have passed or will pass, It is not disputed that a large turn-out by Black Americans made a big difference in this past election. That fact, and the "Big Lie," that the election was stolen from the Tangerine Tyrant, suggest that the reason for the changes is to subtly make i more difficult for Blacks to exercize their Constitutional rights.

I have not read the entirety of "Mein Kampf," or "The Communist Manifesto." But, I have concluded that Fascism and Communism are evil systems, that punish people who don't support state sponsored political candidates. The Tangerine Tyrant and his Taliban GOP seem want to make our sysem similar to those. They have found a faithful comrade in you.

I don't know where you got some of that information, but here's a short breakdown to your points... 2020 was ther first year they had drop boxes, due to the pandemic. The bill does drop the number of them to allow one per 100k voters and they must be accessible at libraries or polling locations during business hours everyday, including weekends, before the election. Being that there are 800k registered voters, 8 boxes is correct. However only 380k actually voted.
The law doesnt restrict the hours, but states that the minimum hours are 9-5 and some counties 7-7.
Previously, voters could request a ballot 180 days out from an election. Now they can request them 78 days before an election. Ballot applications must be received by the clerk no later than 11 days prior to the election — earlier than the previous deadline. 
It doesnt change the current laws about Sunday's but adds a second Saturday.
And the water bottle thing, absolutely not true. Officials, and representatives of certain parties cannot hand out water. That does not mean that there cannot be stations with people handing them out.

All of the justifications aside, if the previous rules resulted in record numbers of citizens exercizing their right to vote, why change things? In the complete absence of fraud, etc. what other reason is there? Could it possibly be, think about it for a minute, that the color of the record number of voters was Black? They say they didn't break any rules. The old Jim Crow addage would be "You know how THEY lie."

Im sorry for not responding earlier, had an 8 hour ban for saying "damn, triggered much?".
Anyway, so Georgia's black voter percentage was 35% of the people that voted. In mine own opinion, I do not believe that it was the way people were able to vote that caused record numbers. But the fact that this past election was as popular as Queen at their last show. BEYOND anyone's belief. It was everywhere.
That aside, in my own opinion, mail in and absentee voting can increase the chances for fraud. When I took a step back, way before the election (rabbit hole) I thought that the parties could use the lockdowns to increase mail in voting (which it did) and then the numbers could be inflated by stashing false ballots (which it could have).
However, I see no possible way that these election bills prohibit anyone from their constitutional right to vote. It doesnt make it harder to vote, it makes it harder to claim it was rigged.
Like I said, it's my opinion. And you have yours.

We have mail in voting in Oregon. We have drop boxes. We even have a region of the state that is so ultra-Right-Wing, that some of their citizens would prefer to be part of Idaho. In the decade I have lived here we have had some pretty contentious elections. But, nobody has ever claimed that an election was "stolen," or "rigged," or alleged any large scale fraud related to mail in ballots. The Democratic Party areas tend to elect Democrats and the Republican areas elect Republicans.

I suspect the reason Republicans tend to believe the fantastic claims of the Tangerine Tyrant is that the left hemisphere of their brains dominate. These are the people who take things as they find them, and work with them. They are the businesspeople, builders and craftspeople. As a performer, as an avocation and sometimes side-job, I have observed that they make the best audiences. But, they tend to believe the story, beyoond its entertainment value. They loved John Wayne because he told them bigger than life stories that made them feel good about themselves. And, there is a lot to feel good about. If you have lived in Republican dominated communities, which I have done twice, you come to know them as hard working, home owning and tax paying citizens. They are generally not overtly racist, sexist or anti-Semites. That is why they have never championed or even tolerated the "White-Wing Movement," until the Tangerine Tyrant came along. As he is placed on an ice-floe and put out to sea over the next months, it will be interesting to see which faction emerges and how they deal with the "others."