Black church tradition survives Georgia's voting changes

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Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
ATLANTA (AP) — Black church leaders in Georgia organized rallies Sunday in a push to get their congregants to vote — a longstanding tradition known as “souls to the polls” that is taking on greater meaning this year amid new obstacles to casting a ballot in the midterm elections.


State lawmakers nearly did away with Sunday voting under a bill signed into law last year. The Republican-sponsored legislation followed former President Donald Trump’s false claims that voter fraud cost him reelection in 2020.

Though lawmakers backed off the Sunday voting ban, the bill shortened the time to request a mail ballot, rolled back the COVID-19 pandemic-driven expansion of ballot drop boxes, reduced early voting before runoff elections and prohibited groups from handing out food and water to voters in line.

Republicans said Georgia’s new law was necessary to restore confidence in the state’s election system. Civil rights advocates saw it as an attack on Black voters, who helped Democrats win the presidential contest in Georgia in 2020 for the first time since 1992 and later take the state’s two U.S. Senate seats. They are pushing back by redoubling efforts to turn out Black voters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-church-tradition-survives-georgias-165047703.html
 
I think it was Ga where the first day of early voting had a massive turn out



People in line long lines waiting for the doors to open
 
Record turnout and long lines mark first day of early voting in Georgia
By Gregory Krieg, CNN
Updated 2:05 PM EDT, Tue October 18, 2022
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I'm sure we can all imagine what Guano's reaction would be if a white church took people to a voting booth..........
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White churches, and especially right wing white churches almost always take people to the polls. There used to be a huge network of the entire spectrum of political views helping each other get to the polls, but Republicans have destroyed that in the last 20 years. Non-Republicans will still transport anyone who wants to the polls. A Black church will transport whites, conservatives, almost anyone. I would not test it with a KKK outfit, but you get my point.

Sadly, many conservative white churches will only transport conservative whites.
 
guno said:
ATLANTA (AP) — Black church leaders in Georgia organized rallies Sunday in a push to get their congregants to vote — a longstanding tradition known as “souls to the polls” that is taking on greater meaning this year amid new obstacles to casting a ballot in the midterm elections.


State lawmakers nearly did away with Sunday voting under a bill signed into law last year. The Republican-sponsored legislation followed former President Donald Trump’s false claims that voter fraud cost him reelection in 2020.

Though lawmakers backed off the Sunday voting ban, the bill shortened the time to request a mail ballot, rolled back the COVID-19 pandemic-driven expansion of ballot drop boxes, reduced early voting before runoff elections and prohibited groups from handing out food and water to voters in line.

Republicans said Georgia’s new law was necessary to restore confidence in the state’s election system. Civil rights advocates saw it as an attack on Black voters, who helped Democrats win the presidential contest in Georgia in 2020 for the first time since 1992 and later take the state’s two U.S. Senate seats. They are pushing back by redoubling efforts to turn out Black voters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-church-tradition-survives-georgias-165047703.html
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Why you so concerned with black Christians in Georgia, alleged Hebrew boy?

They're "The Goyim" according to you, no? I bet they like bacon!

I bet they won't be voting Democrat, either. :laugh:
 
Matt Dillon said:
Why you so concerned with black Christians in Georgia, alleged Hebrew boy?
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First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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You need to stand up for others' rights, even when you are not them... And even when you disagree with how they use their rights.

I know this idea is alien to you. That is sad.
 
Walt said:
You need to stand up for others' rights, even when you are not them... And even when you disagree with how they use their rights.

I know this idea is alien to you. That is sad.
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I think black people in GA should vote for their best interest as Americans, and that's NOT Democrat.
 
Walt said:
White churches, and especially right wing white churches almost always take people to the polls. There used to be a huge network of the entire spectrum of political views helping each other get to the polls, but Republicans have destroyed that in the last 20 years. Non-Republicans will still transport anyone who wants to the polls. A Black church will transport whites, conservatives, almost anyone. I would not test it with a KKK outfit, but you get my point.

Sadly, many conservative white churches will only transport conservative whites.
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it is sadder that you are so far removed from reality that you think anything you posted is true......
 
Walt said:
White churches, and especially right wing white churches almost always take people to the polls. There used to be a huge network of the entire spectrum of political views helping each other get to the polls, but Republicans have destroyed that in the last 20 years. Non-Republicans will still transport anyone who wants to the polls. A Black church will transport whites, conservatives, almost anyone. I would not test it with a KKK outfit, but you get my point.

Sadly, many conservative white churches will only transport conservative whites.
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Citation needed.
 
evince said:
Record turnout and long lines mark first day of early voting in Georgia
By Gregory Krieg, CNN
Updated 2:05 PM EDT, Tue October 18, 2022
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Right wing polls are flooding the news with crap polls designed to screw the appearance that the right is winning


So when they lose they can claim fraud


So they can kill some more cops and other Americans
 
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