https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...democrat-lies-about-georgias-election-reform/ Ortiz & Fleming: Top 10 Democrat Lies About Georgia’s Election Reform Below are the top ten Democrat lies about Georgia’s voting reform: Lie: The law ends voting at 5 pm. Fact: The law requires early voting hours to be open from at least 9 am to 5 pm, codifying the “normal business hours” requirement in the previous law. Counties can and do extend those hours from 7 am to 7 pm. Lie: The law prevents voters from accessing water in poll lines. Fact: The law allows voters to access water at polling places, including from poll workers. It bans political activists from using water as an excuse to violate existing laws on electioneering and bribery in polling places. Lie: The law’s voter ID requirement is racist. Fact: The law replaces the faulty and subjective signature matching system for absentee ballots with an ID number such as a driver’s license number, Social Security number, or free state voter ID number. The approximately 9,000 Georgia voters who don’t have one of these identifications can use a bank statement, utility bill, or alternative ID. Lie: The law restricts early voting. Fact: The law expands early voting with no-excuse absentee ballot voting and 19 days of early voting, with two mandatory Saturdays and two optional Sundays. Lie: The law restricts mail-in voting. Fact: The law sets a commonsense deadline of 11 days before Election Day for voters to request absentee ballots to ensure they have enough time to cast their ballots on time. The 67-day window to request no-excuse absentee ballots remains. Lie: The law restricts absentee dropboxes. Fact: The law mandates absentee dropboxes, used in an emergency situation in 2020, in all future elections. While 35 counties did not have dropboxes in 2020, the law requires all Georgia’s 159 counties to have at least one dropbox, and they can add an additional one per 100,000 of population. Lie: The law allows “takeovers” of local elections. Fact: Neither the state election board nor the legislature can overturn an election. The law allows the board to replace local election officials for evident mismanagement after in-depth reviews and appeals. Lie: The law is controversial and makes Georgia a national outlier. Fact: The law makes Georgia one of the best states in terms of voter access in the nation. A new report from the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) ranks Georgia’s election access in the country’s top tier. President Biden’s home state of Delaware, by contrast, requires voters to provide an excuse to access an absentee ballot. Lie: The law is unpopular. Fact: Polls show that the law’s provisions are popular with Georgia voters. For instance, a University of Georgia poll finds that two-thirds of Georgians support the law’s voter ID requirement. Lie: Colorado’s election laws offer voters far more access than Georgia’s. Fact: In many ways, Colorado’s election laws are more restrictive than Georgia’s. For instance, Georgia has more days of in-person early voting. And Colorado can require voters to provide a photocopy of their identification when they return their mail ballot for the first time.
County... in North Carolina.... getting stupid about what happened in Georgia. NC county bans Coca-Cola machines in county buildings https://www.wral.com/nc-county-bans-coca-cola-machines-in-county-buildings/19706500/ One North Carolina county banned Coca-Cola vending machines in their office buildings, WXII reports. Officials said that they're unhappy with the company's criticism of Georgia Republicans' new restrictive voting laws. The Georgia-based company has recently been outspoken in defending voting rights. Republicans lawmakers passed a sweeping bill limiting voting across the state in March. The bill cuts down on the number of absentee ballot drop boxes and expands the powers that the Legislature has over elections. Activists and Georgia Democrats say the new law specifically targets voters in minority communities. In the 2020 presidential elections, Georgia was a battleground state. In a surprising turn of events, the state flipped and voted for Joe Biden as president. Since then, former President Donald Trump has told his supporters that there was election fraud in the state and the election should have gone to him. Eddie Harris, Surry County's longest-serving commissioner, said he hopes this legislation will be implemented in other counties across North Carolina. WXII reports he called Coca-Cola's recent statement "left-wing politics." "Millions of Americans believe that the last presidential election was not held in a fair manner and that more voter fraud will occur in the future if elections are not more closely monitored and regulated," Harris wrote in a letter, reported by WXII. Harris told WXII that the country needs better election security and voter ID to make sure "the right people" are voting. The vending machines have not yet been removed from office buildings in the county. WXII reports that a spokesman for Coca-Cola Consolidated, a bottling company separate from Coca-Cola, said the company has reached out to the county in hopes of setting up a meeting.
‘You are a moron.’ North Carolina county ends Coke vending machine ban after pushback https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article251972373.html County commissioners in North Carolina wanted to send a message to Coke by removing its vending machines from county property after the CEO spoke out against changes to Georgia’s voting laws. But the machines didn’t belong to the Atlanta-based beverage giant. The 12 Coke vending machines on Surry County property were owned and operated by Coca-Cola Consolidated, an independent bottling company headquartered in Charlotte. Commissioners voted Monday to rescind the previous vote after company representatives pointed out the error during a public forum in which several residents also voiced their objections. Alison Patient, vice president of government affairs at Coca-Cola Consolidated, told board members one of its 15 facilities in North Carolina is located in Surry County. “I’m here tonight because the commission has made a decision that directly impacts our business and the livelihood of the 37 employees and their families that work here in Surry County,” she said. “We’re respectfully asking that you reconsider your actions.” Surry is on the Virginia border, about 93 miles north of Charlotte. Patient also clarified Coca-Cola Consolidated is “completely separate” from The Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta and has “absolutely no control over their opinions or statements about any issue.” What started the Coke ban The decision to ban Coke machines in Surry County stems from comments made by James Quincey, chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Co., after Georgia lawmakers passed legislation in March overhauling voting laws in the state. The legislation contained sweeping changes to voter ID requirements and absentee ballots that The New York Times reported “will limit ballot access, potentially confuse voters and give more power to Republican lawmakers.” Dozens of corporations issued statements denouncing the law, including Quincey. “We want to be crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting legislation,” Quincey said on April 1. In response, Surry County Commissioner Eddie Harris made a motion during a May 17 board meeting to remove Coke machines from county property, calling Quincey’s statement an “attempt by the major corporations and globalists to circumvent our election process.” Harris said the Georgia voting law was an issue of “election integrity” and suggested Quincey, who is British, “go back to England and mind his own business.” “I don’t believe this will displace any workers in Surry County — 12 drink machines — but you know what, it’ll send a little bitty message that we’re not going to tolerate it in Surry County and you take your Coke machines, load it up, take them back to the house,” Harris said. The board passed the motion with three commissioners in favor and two against. One commissioner abstained, which was counted as a vote in favor. Harris was later interviewed on Fox & Friends, where he said the vote stemmed from wanting to “push back against this woke cancel culture.” “Our citizens support this,” he said. “They’re absolutely sick and tired of this outrageous left-wing mob that is attacking freedom of speech, that is attacking people’s jobs.” Public reaction Three representatives from Coca-Cola Consolidated kicked off an hourlong public forum Monday at the start of the board’s regularly scheduled meeting in which they urged commissioners to reconsider. Patient said leadership has never made public statements about election laws in Georgia or any other state. “We feel in this instance, we’re really not being treated equally,” she said. “There is a long list of companies that spoke up about the Georgia legislation. I think there were more than 100. The one company that was not on that list was my company, Coca-Cola Consolidated. Yet we’re the only ones that appear to have been impacted in Surry County on that issue.” Several residents also spoke out against the ban — including Julian Charles Robinson, who described the previous board meeting as “full of conspiracy, hate talk and far right-wing activism.” “How much will it take for the far-right Republicans sitting here who spoke last week, how much evidence will it take for them to accept and go home having lost the election?” he said. “What’s it going to take?” Wes Caudill from Elkin said commissioners passed the vending machine ban against Coca-Cola Consolidated and “didn’t have a clue about what they did.” He said he also heard commissioners talk about not wanting companies like Amazon to come to the county. “Quite frankly, if you sit on the Board of Commissioners for Surry County and you would refuse any company to bring economic development to our county, you are a moron,” Caudill said. Commissioners respond At the end of Monday’s meeting, Commissioner Larry Johnson — who abstained the first time — moved to rescind the board’s vote. Harris, who introduced the first vote, and Commissioner Van Tucker, who seconded it, stood by their initial vote in favor of the ban. “I am holding my ground because I feel like that’s the right thing for me to do,” Tucker said Monday. “I was trying to send a message to the flagship Coca-Cola and if there were some casualties beneath, sorry about that.” They were outnumbered by Johnson, Commissioner Bill Goins and board Chairman Mark Marion, who voted in favor of rescinding. “I think it’s important to remember that the working man sometimes gets the shaft in all this — I think he really does,” Goins said. “We go after somebody, we go after the CEO, he doesn’t really care. But the guy who fills those machines takes pride in what he does. I’ve seen that.”
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