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Opinion: The gutless Atlanta Braves put themselves on the wrong side of history

So a funny happened along the way to liberal cancel culture pushing the boundaries to senseless limits... the truth came out. While you still have "some" still lying about a reduction of voting hours that is actually an increase or demanding that food and drink is somehow banned in voting lines (apparently in just heavy black communities with lots of frail elderly people), most are having to dial it back to what the law actually does and then try to use not-so-clever rhetoric to maintain the original narrative.

Two key parts of the new restrictions gives the Republican-controlled state government the power to assert control over elections in Democratic counties. The new restrictions also limit how voters can receive food and drink within a certain vicinity of a voting location.

These are draconian tactics and astoundingly anti-democratic. They are un-American in every way. No American should want them.

Draconian measures? Establishing a state election board via state elections and making sure that only poll workers are interacting with the voters in line are "draconian measures"? In what world does this guy live in?

To be clear, Republican control over Democratic counties is nonsense. I wonder out loud if the same person believes that the Federal election law that Democrats are attempting to pass would be an attempt to assert Democratic control over Republican states? It would be entirely the same principle. But I doubt Mr. Freeman would take the same issue with that law. 

The truth is that the Georgia law is simply starting to put common sense state-wide control over the election counting process that remains increasingly inconsistent and increasingly suspect. When the State of Georgia ended up with at least two large Democratic Counties counting votes in the middle of the night after sending home (mistakenly or not) their poll watchers, then you have a problem. When ballot counters in Democratic counties went into rooms, locked the doors, closed the blinds, so they could make judgements on contested ballots without witnesses, you have a problem. 

These are (in fact) long-standing problem that probably should have been addressed a long time ago.

Every county should be maintaining some semblance of following one set guideline. That can only be done by having a state-wide election board (many of which will be elected positions).  To suggest that simply supervising people who have been accused of blatant cheating is un-American is silly. It reeks of people afraid that they will no longer be allowed to pull some of the shit that they used to pull and being angry about it. 

The very fact that this Mike Freeman  (as a sports reporter) believes that Democracy means allowing unelected Democratic hacks continue to make up their own rules, and rejecting the idea that the people should be allowed to vote for an election board to oversee thing, shows us how ignorant and uninformed this person really is.

The new restrictions also limit how voters can receive food and drink within a certain vicinity of a voting location.

I do have to appreciate that critics are no longer suggesting dishonestly that people in line were banned from being given food or drink. But again, this Mike Freeman is apparently unaware of Federal laws that exist that makes it illegal for any campaigning, solicitation, or even implicit attempts to either lure voters to the polls with any sort of compensation. The fact that he believes that people who are not voting or are not poll workers have some sort of Democratic right to be interacting and talking to people waiting in line is probably just as ignorant and uninformed than thinking an elected election board is undemocratic.

Reality check: Voter advocacy groups don't have any right to be there and there is literally no good reason for them to be. Once accepted that food and drink will be allowed to be brought and handed out to people waiting in line, the issues of "how" that food is handed out should be entirely irrelevant. At least if the issue is really about protecting the people standing in line, rather than protecting the people who are looking to use food and drink to their own personal political advantage. 

At the end of the day, the only things this law is attempting to suppress are the long standing widespread maneuvers used by Democrats during elections that have been skirting the existing laws, exploiting loopholes, and shielding themselves from oversight as means to maintain the very questionable behavior that led to all of the calls of cheating and fraud. 

So rather than just demand that there is no cheating or fraud, why not make these elections consistent, fair, and most importantly transparent for everyone. Why continue to demand different rules for different counties and cling to the idea that local political activists should be the ones making the important decisions when it comes to our post election counting process? Why continue to press forward with questionable activities that everyone should understand are skirting if not outright breaking the laws.

Sorry, but following laws, having oversight, and making everyone play by the same rules is as American as apple pie. Or at least it was and still should be.