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Originally Posted by 69in2it69
I spend more that a fair bit of time in solid Trump country. For months you'd see flags, signs of Trump 2020, Stop the Steal, Trump 2024, etc... Those have disappeared. More and more are realizing the scam they fell for and waking to reality. I mean is it really the Dems who want to make it a crime to give a bottle of water to an elderly person who's stood in line in brutal heat for hours to vote. No, it's the losers who know they can't win on a level playing field.
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where do you get your info? MSDNC?
forbidding someone to give items of any kind to people waiting to vote in an attempt to influence their vote has been against the Texas penal code for decades. the new voting laws don't change that one way or the other.
stop watching CNN sport.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/ve...e-841230f063c1
VERIFY: No, it isn't illegal to give voters food or water in Texas
Simply giving someone waiting in line to vote food or water does not violate any part of the new election law in Texas.
DALLAS — Texas is one of several Republican-led states to recently adopt new election laws changing when, how, and where voters can cast their ballot.
Supporters say the changes insure secure, legit elections results while Democrats have panned the new laws as too restrictive and tantamount to voter suppression.
The debate over the new laws also played out on social media where users speculated about the effects on future elections.
The first election day since Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 into law will happen on Tuesday, and one popular claim online warns giving food or water to voters waiting in line is now an illegal act punishable by a fine.
THE QUESTION
Is it illegal to give voters food and water in Texas?
THE SOURCE
Texas Secretary of State.
THE ANSWER
FALSE.
Simply giving someone waiting in line to vote food or water does not violate any part of the new election law in Texas. However, giving it as a form of influencing votes has been illegal for years.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Texas Secretary of State Office is the chief election office for the state and replied to our inquiry by citing Sec. 36.02 of the Texas Penal Code, a section predating the new election law by decades.
Per the code, anyone offering “any benefit as consideration for the recipient’s decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or other exercise of discretion as a public servant, party official, or voter” is committing bribery.
Nothing in the code prohibits giving away food or drink to voters so long as it is not an attempt to persuade or influence a person's vote.
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Originally Posted by Lucas McCain
Most don't have jobs. If they did, they would realize how absolutely ridiculous it is with the technology we have today to go stand in line for hours and take time off from work to vote. And we have a lot of dinosaurs posting as well.
But hey, if you want to have a real discussion about actual election fraud, why don't we talk about the fact that minorities and women were not allowed to vote for so long and not about some fat fuck orange crooked con man who was kicked to the curb by the masses.
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who says you have a job, other than you .. on a whore board.
BAHHAHHAAAAA