Here's a non-comprehensive thread on how Colorado's elections law is extremely different than Georgia's.
Mail ballots: Colorado sends a ballot to every active registered voter. In Georgia, a voter must request a ballot. The Secretary of State and other officials are now banned from even sending *applications* to everyone. 1/
In-person voter ID: Colorado allows various non-photo ID for in-person voting, including a birth certificate, recent bill/bank statement/check. Georgia requires photo ID. 2/
Mail-voter ID: Colorado doesn't require additional ID from mail voters after a newly registered person has their ID verified once; from then, it's a signature system. Georgia now requires a form of ID for every mail vote. 3/
Drop boxes part 1: Colorado's drop boxes are open 24 hours a day until the evening of Election Day. Georgia's now have to be inside, available only during early voting hours, and shut down the Friday before Election Day. 4/
Drop boxes part 2: Colorado encourages the use of drop boxes. Georgia just imposed strict limits. In the 2020 general, both Denver and Atlanta's Fulton County had 38 boxes. Denver can keep that number. Fulton says it is being forced down to 8 boxes. 5/
Voter registration: Colorado allows same-day voter registration on Election Day; someone can show up, register and vote in that election. Georgia's registration deadline is the fifth Monday before Election Day. 6/
Food and water: CO says even campaigns can give out food/drink to voters in line as long as they don't wear candidate/party attire. GA says no person can give out food/drink to voters within 25 feet of the line, with the exception of self-serve water set up by election staff. 7/
I'll stop there. In sum: People can debate how bad or non-bad Georgia's law is, but the claim or suggestion that Colorado has the same or stricter rules is highly dishonest.
I was only breaking down provisions Republicans have raised today in their bad GA-CO comparisons, but yes -- the GA law also includes important administrative provisions, like letting the state elections board seize control of county elections boards, that Colorado doesn't have.
For those reading the thread: here’s an article breaking this down in handy article form. cnn.com/2021/04/07/pol…
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Biden keeps suggesting the GA law ends voting at 5. It doesn’t, even in early voting.
The vague old law required early voting at least “normal business hours.” The new law just clarifies this means at least until 5. Counties can still choose to go to 7: cnn.com/2021/04/02/pol…
Some Biden defenders are misinterpreting the history here. GA law *already allowed counties to end early voting as early as 5.* Many counties already did. The new law does not impose a cut to 5. It does significant other restrictions, which I've written about! But not this.
Some are saying "we're not fooled, this law lets Republicans close early voting at 5." But that was already permitted under the "normal business hours" minimum in the old law. New law says, effectively, "you can't claim normal biz hours means 10 to 4 or something. It's 9 to 5."
Won't livetweet CPAC, but like 15 minutes in they're playing a video titled "YOUR VOTES CANCELLED," which lengthily suggests major fraud in the 2020 election. (Like, it ominously shows a CNN clip about how Biden started to look better late at night as ballots were counted.)
It then proceeds to a clips of people saying it was "impossible" and "very strange" that Biden gained ground as votes were counted on election night, then a clip of Rush Limbaugh saying it must have been the "vote fairy" arriving in swing states.
This is bad.
CPAC panelist TW Shannon of Oklahoma says that "mobs happen when people have a sense of hopelessness." For example, he says, "The reason that people stormed the Capitol was because they felt hopeless because of a rigged election." (Fair election, Biden won, etc.)
In a new, more detailed anti-impeachment filing, Trump's legal team just yada-yada breezes past the incendiary parts of Trump's January 6 speech -- accusing the media of cherry-picking from the speech while itself doing egregious cherry-picking.
Trump's legal team also argues that Trump's comments in the months before the January 6 speech were "mischaracterized," and anyway, since the January 6 riot was pre-planned and also started before Trump finished his speech, Trump's speech couldn't have incited it.
Here are a couple of excerpts from the Trump filing.
Biden is talking about race. He discusses the George Floyd killing, saying it marked a turning point in views on racial justice; mentions the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on Black and Latino people; criticizes "thugs" and "white supremacists" over the Capitol attack.
Biden says criminal justice reform is needed but isn't enough. He says racial equity "has to be the business of the whole of government" rather than one department.
Biden says he's rescinding Trump's ban on federal sensitivity and diversity training and notes he's ordered the abolition of the "offensive, counterfactual 1776 Commission."
“The world respects us again. Please. Don’t. Lose. That. Respect,” Trump says in his farewell video.
“Above all, we have reasserted the sacred idea that in America, the government answers to the people," Trump says. He adds, "We fought for the principle that every citizen is entitled to equal dignity, equal treatment, and equal rights, because we are all made equal by God."
Trump used his farewell video to repeat some of his favorite rally material, including, naturally, this lie: "We passed VA Choice."
NEW: This viral incident - 20M views on Twitter! - had nothing to do with the Capitol attack.
Video was taken at Charlotte airport Friday night. American Airlines says the screaming man had just been asked to get off a flight to Denver for refusing to comply with mask policy.
There was never any reason to believe this man had been put on a no-fly list related to the Capitol insurrection. But that claim went viral anyway - even though the caption on the original TikTok video had said it was a mask incident.
The woman who filmed and posted the original video later conceded she hadn't known for sure that it was a mask incident; caution was always warranted. But caution was extra-warranted on the "no-fly list" nonsense, which was conjured from thin air.