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1) Should there universal rules for voting, i.e something like a set amount of places to vote in each city.
2) If people are worried about voter fraud should it be mandatory to register as soon as possible
3) If you were waiting in line would you wait the full 10 hours.
4) Is mail in voting how it should be done to prevent these long lines.
5) is it deliberate voter suppression or is it because of the pandemic or both

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“While we were there, many people were leaving. They just got tired. They just left,” said Ambrose King...  “The lines would be moving, but it wasn’t because people were voting; it was because people were getting out in front of us,” said King..."

1. What do you think would happen with the elections if no one were to vote due to the struggles it brings to them?

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"Voters waited for as long as 10 hours across Atlanta and surrounding suburbs to cast their ballots on Georgia’s first day of early voting Monday, leading some to give up and raising questions about whether election officials were prepared for what is shaping up to be a historic early-voting season."

2. why do you think the government/state officials make it harder for people to vote when they encourage and highly push the people to vote?

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"The lines would be moving, but it wasn’t because people were voting; it was because people were getting out in front of us,” said King, who was reached through ProPublica’s Electionland voter tip line. He said he and his wife were told that a limited number of voting machines and a temporary network connection issue contributed to the delays."

3. Do you believe these voting struggles are only to target a specific group of people? why?

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"Some people brought their own chairs as they waited, the lines inching slowly because of the limited number of people allowed inside to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Some people brought their own chairs as they waited, the lines inching slowly because of the limited number of people allowed inside to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus."

1. Do you think that the oppressors are going to take advantage of the pandemic to restrict certain people to vote by putting limited voting stands?

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The lines would be moving, but it wasn’t because people were voting; it was because people were getting out in front of us,” said King, who was reached through ProPublica’s Electionland voter tip line.

2. How do you think just leaving the voting site will affect their decision to vote next time if this keeps going?

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Fuchs said more polling places might have reduced lines in some locations, and she noted that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) pushed legislation to expand polling locations but did not succeed. He plans to submit the measure again next year, she said.

3.Why do you think the expansion of the poll locations got denied?

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This article connects to what is happening today because it is another form of voter suppression purposefully from the government in order to have the election go a certain way so trump wins. The article says that lines are longest in democratic states and that the poll places are limited with technical difficulties. Isn´t it a coincidence how this is all happening when a majority of biden voters are voting early and trump voters are waiting until election day. The voting lines would only move because people were leaving. This article connects to the elections today because the government knows the people are stronger then them and they are trying to shut down a bigger force then themselves, so the elections will only go the way they want it.

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Voter turnouts have caused long wait times that sometimes even take up 10 hours or more. Although an unusual factor was observed, in which primarily democratic areas have long wait times, meanwhile conservative areas have shorter wait times. Perhaps this is fueled by the fact that the conservatives plan to vote last minute vs the democrats who vote as soon as possible. Consequently people are leaving the line to vote in massive numbers, yet this sad reality is ignored by government officials’ deceit. Ultimately despite having prepared for technical issues and malfunctions, many states like Georgia are experiencing/undergoing tech issues once again. Yet the hope of being able to vote this election has encouraged many to wait these long lines.

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The lines would be moving, but it wasn’t because people were voting; it was because people were getting out in front of us,” said King, who was reached through ProPublica Electionland voter tip line.
1.) As the years go on why do you think this is a constant problem?

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"While the lines were longest in the state’s heavily Democratic strongholds in and around Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah and Macon, hours-long waits were also reported in smaller, more conservative counties, including Lowndes and Floyd, officials said. By the evening, at least 120,000 voters had cast their ballots, according to Jordan Fuchs, Georgia’s deputy secretary of state."
2.)Why is this intentionally happening in the bigger democratic states?

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1 Who are the voters that are being affected.
2 Do u think the election is safe from outside interference.
3 Why do you think the government is overlooking this problem like nothings happening
4 Do u think we should change the voter rules if so why

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The article about 10 hour voting times for early voting used for voter suppression connects to events going on today because recently on the local news it shows how there have been really big voting turnouts in places like Georgia. Many places are willing to vote because they want their vote to be counted, they want it to be validated, while other people are tired of waiting 8 hours or more in bad weather conditions etc. Many people leave the line as they are discouraged looking at these long waits and its harder for older people too. People say that they have seen these extreme conditions in previous years on actual election day but never really in months before. People are voting so early because they want immediate change fro this country but its getting harder as new ways of voter suppression are put in place.

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The voters were standing in the long lines, also waiting a long time to vote in Georgia because of covid all places that you can  vote in had to do social distancing which made the lines long and it took a long time, they had limited vote polls and also technical problems because the lines are so long a lot of people didn’t even get the chance to vote they just left because they are tired of waiting,

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“The lines would be moving, but it wasn’t because people were voting; it was because people were getting out in front of us,” said King, who was reached through ProPublica’s Electionland voter tip line.
“It is very unusual. We started with lines and people have been arriving in steady streams. Columbus Day is not a county holiday, but it is a holiday for others,” said Joe Sorenson, spokesman for Gwinnett County. “That may have added to the voter enthusiasm.”

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“We’ve had zero machine malfunctions or failures around the state,” she said, adding: “This is just extremely high turnout. You see these extremely long lines in historic elections. You saw it in 2008 when Obama was on the ballot, and you’re seeing it again.” People don't even want to go vote in the present time because of the very long lines so people would probably not even go to vote in the future if it keeps up.

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¨Tyler came armed with snacks, a jacket and a book to help pass the time. Minutes later, rain began to fall in the parking lot where he stood with hundreds of other eager voters¨. This shows how the voters are being affected because they are basically being starved just for the wanting of voting and do not offer them anything , which make people not want to vote because they get hunger and weak due to not eating. If it was not for that one voter giving out snacks it was not likely many were gonna keep voting .

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As people rushed to the lines for early voting, the lines were excessively long. The voting system blamed the long lines to high voting turnout, not enough voting machines, and the technology issues at that time. The long lines came to the point where voters had brought chairs, snacks, bathroom breaks for the wait which could have taken up to 12 hours during that day. Some voters even gave up and left the line to vote. The long lines were intended to stop peoples ability to vote from having to wait in line for hours which can take a physical and mental strains on the voters to cause them not to vote. Even through this, it was still apparent that people were willing to wait to cast their vote for the future president.

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This article connects to whats happening today because in the article what is happening is they are limiting the amount of polls there is to vote. This relates to today because it keeps happening again and again that they are trying to limit people from voting. This is another example of voter surpression.

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In the article " 10 hours waiting times, for early voting" the connection i see happening in the article and the world around us is voters suppression.  People are having to wait a lot of hours just put their votes in when voting is suppose to be quicker. In Georgia they are having limited voting locations and people are forced to go on long ride to vote. This is voters suppression because they closed polling locations in predominantly black and latinx locations . This makes it very hard because they can't wait as long in lines because some may have disabilities , some may have work or have other things and end up leaving and then on election day they can't go for those same reasons. This connects to what Greg Abbott did in texas who is republican governor restricted the number of drop boxes for completed ballots to have one per county. when there is 4.7 residents in Harris County whom 70% are non white and are able to vote . This is voters suppression because that 70% is gonna struggle to get there vote in because the governor is making it hard for them distance and time wise .

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Overall its saying that there voting process is set up to fail. Places that are majority ruled democrat they have less places to vote but more has a larger population and no one should take as long as 10 hours just to vote off a few question that makes the biggest decisions in which who rules our country.