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16 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
It is flat out insane that they can have outdoor events and also hold classes indoors but cannot figure out how to have *voting* on campus.

Football is fine because it's outdoors? Looks like your football stadium might be a great place for a polling site.
Like there is just no excuse for this, fundamentally, and that they put out a statement with this much contempt for people making an obvious comparison is absolutely nuts.
In absence of a polling station @universityofga better have county officials there every single day with absentee ballot applications and sort out the inevitable problems with students getting mail on campus.
And also I'll add that there are more than 37,000 students on UGA's campus. A crazy thought to solve issues of lines and social distancing? MORE THAN ONE POLLING PLACE.

Honestly how did "close the polling place" beat out "let's open additional polling places" in this brainstorm?
And like idk but SHUTTLES seem smaller than a whole ass polling place just saying.

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Please take what I said out of context, Alyssa. You did it when I was reporting on the "voter fraud commission." No surprise you do it now.
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who says being a reporter isn’t the most glamorous job in the world Image
.@propublica I apologize for this glamorous choice which has cost the company $38.
I actually genuinely love motels like these and they are generally clean and the people are nice so all of this is in jest. One time one of these hotels let me plug my computer in with their Ethernet cable at the check in desk and do a TV spot live in the lobby.
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fun fact it is easier to vote in Texas than New York
three weeks of early voting, which it’s had for a long time. Elections offices in Texas are also staffed by professional administrators, and in New York they are controlled by deeply problematic party officials. Until this year, NYC had no early voting.
In 2018 (and a whole bunch of other times) NYC removed thousands from the rolls for no real reason and was sued. Every county in NYC was under preclearance and if you want an example of why, look at where they put early voting locations.
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If you are a journalist, please do not write “there were lines as far as the eye can see” when the wait is 20 minutes long. Studies show that voters will stand in line without being all that bothered by it for half an hour. Don’t make people afraid to go out and vote.
I have been in drive-through lines that took longer than 20 minutes
I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but hey maybe I do: We are in a pandemic so the lines look longer than they are because people have to stand 6 feet apart.
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