cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3474840
From WABE Politics News:
Georgia’s secretary of state on Thursday came out against election rule changes pending before the State Election Board, specifically rejecting a proposal to count ballots by hand at polling places […]
I understand that basically allowing the public to collectively filibuster would theoretically be bad, but – as someone who is very much paying more attention to local politics than most – the likelihood of that happening is incredibly insignificant compared to the danger of government bodies abusing it by censoring public input to shield themselves from legitimate criticism.
How small is your town? Where I live every single committee with grind to a halt and the phone to members would resign before they sit there in meetings until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning every night listening to internet trolls who have been sent out to waste everyone’s time.
It’s Atlanta, so… not small?
Maybe the far right does not have this sort of local organizing presence in Atlanta? I was expecting you to say some super small town that nobody’s ever heard of. I’m in a blue state but in a rural community and I promise these brainwashed morons show up to every meeting spouting conspiracy theories and bitching about government this and government that. That they are as bad as sovereign citizens except that are way more of them, and sometimes the people in charge actually take them seriously. And if they can’t conjure up any bullshit, they will simply read forwarded emails into the record for three minutes before they get cut off.