Anti-electioneering laws are on the books in many states. So yes, having one party show up and give free food, drinks, or anything else of value would be offsides. You say that no one is being bribed, but then go on to assert that people are actually voting more as a result of this behavior. You have contradicted yourself.

Voter ID laws are common sense. Most developed (and underdeveloped) nations have already taken the incredibly normal step of ensuring that voters are who they say they are. A vast majority of Americans support voter ID in order to vote. They understand that they need a valid ID to do just about everything else, and voting is far more important than those things.

Whether or not Democrats oppose these measures because they think it harms them, or Republicans support them because they think it helps them, they're uncontroversial, common-sense measures which have been implemented in a myriad of other blue states, along with many other democratic countries.

i love how all the republican shills, trying to rationalise a blatant voter disenfranchisement campaign, refuse to address the core points of my posts, and have to pivot to other narratives.

it's simply a FACT that voter ID laws would disproportionally hurt poor and minority voters - as intended. it's also a FACT that voter fraud that could be prevented by ID laws (voter impersonation) is basically non-existent. only 31 cases in a billion votes cast between 2000 and 2014. how could anyone without partisan motives possibly justify the disenfranchisement of millions in order to 'address' that non-issue?
it's so transparent... nothing about that is "uncontroversial" or "common sense". again, it's a FACT that 25% of black voters do NOT have a government-issued photo-ID - so the comparison with countries where basically 100% of eligible voters have an ID, where it's affordable (or paid for by the government if you're poor) and easy to obtain one, is dishonest and stupid. meanwhile in america: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a-photo-id-so-you-can-vote-is-easy-unless-youre-poor-black-latino-or-elderly/2016/05/23/8d5474ec-20f0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html

just out of curiosity, since i'm sure you consider yourself one of the "good" guys, just really really concerned about the security of your elections, and not at all interested in the partisan motivations of dishonest actors: wouldn't you agree that it'd be important to make sure that laws to "secure" the vote would not by design exclude a significant percentage of the population to participate, and dramatically change the demographic and the outcome of the vote?

who's the idiot who changes their vote based on a $0.20 water bottle tho?

Acts of kindness go a long way. There are 2nd and 3rd world countries where candidates go around and “gift” bags of rice, school supplies, etc before an election as a precursor of things to come if they are elected. It actually works, poor people love that shit.

A bottle of water doesn’t seem like much but there are subliminal messages being sent such as “we care and they don’t” which to me is enough to sway at least some people that could be fairly indifferent or uneducated on platforms or candidates.

we know you hate minorities and women and think they’re incapable of self-agency.

no need to post your fetish content here, there is a section dedicated for that, wierdo: https://forums.d2jsp.org/forum.php?f=276

Herp a deep. What you sound like.

??? sit this one out junior boomer. little early for you to be so out of it

No u

yes.. you are right.. Giving people water waiting in line in high heat means you think that person is incapable of self care.. thats EXACTLY what that means..
Don't ever ask for water you mental midget.. somebody might take your voting rights away.

This post was edited by theCrossbones on Apr 7 2021 09:02am

Having a waiter means you can't take care of yourself.