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TigressDem

(5,126 posts)
9. I think Politifact put in pieces to sidetrack the issue EX: Montana
Fri May 6, 2022, 06:01 PM
May 2022
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/15/kamala-harris/fact-checking-kamala-harris-claim-food-water-hando/


Kamala Harris exaggerates food and water laws for voters

If Your Time is short

States commonly ban bribing voters or limit electioneering within a certain distance of polling places. But laws that expressly ban giving away food or water to voters waiting in lines are rare. Voters who bring their own food and drinks remain free to consume them.

Georgia lawmakers passed a law this year that bans food and water giveaways to voters near polling sites, although poll workers are allowed to set up self-serve water stations.

New York and Montana have laws about food and water giveaways, but they are less restrictive than Georgia’s.


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Montana’s 2015 law, signed by Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock, bans candidates and individuals working on their behalf from distributing food or drinks to voters at or near a polling place. A Montana court used an earlier statute to remove a sheriff from office following the 1938 election because he handed out "large quantities of beer, by the bottle and by the keg."


SO BECAUSE Montana has a Democratic Gov, and actually removed a sheriff for dispensing beer to sway voters....

THEN DEMS introduced the bills banning water.




What I can't SAY TO MY SON because he's TOO BUSY TALKING TO LISTEN.....


Is that WHILE DEMs DO SUPPORT NOT BRIBING PEOPLE TO VOTE A SPECIFIC WAY and discourage politicking in the vicinity of the polls....


IN AREAS where people can pass out from heat exhausting trying to vote because these areas are supplied with inadequate numbers of voting machines for the populace..... it is the RETHUGS who are banning water distribution.



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there are none so blind,,, CurtEastPoint May 2022 #1
Sadly, facts don't matter to ppl like him. I stopped speaking to friend of more than childfreebychoice May 2022 #2
You have to wonder.... TheRealNorth May 2022 #3
They have been told that MSM is lying. Tik Tok is the truth. OAN TigressDem May 2022 #11
I find their arguments to be half-hearted at best when outside their bubble. sop May 2022 #16
But you can't get a word in edgewise because that is "interrupting" TigressDem May 2022 #19
Yeah, when you're told facts are lies, and lies are facts, it's impossible to even engage. sop May 2022 #21
How did he "check"? Seems a bit fishy, as is everything from. TreasonousBastard May 2022 #4
I think Politifact put in pieces to sidetrack the issue EX: Montana TigressDem May 2022 #9
Candidates and their staff would be considered campaigning Phoenix61 May 2022 #13
AND if the polling places were balanced.... it wouldn't be necessary at all. TigressDem May 2022 #17
How can anyone know? taxi May 2022 #5
Been investigating the Georgia Version. SB 202 TigressDem May 2022 #6
WHO supported it? TigressDem May 2022 #7
How many R's vs D's in Georgia House and Senate? TigressDem May 2022 #8
Just came from their site taxi May 2022 #10
I think they "try to show balance" but get taken out of context. TigressDem May 2022 #14
All that about cherry picking may be fine for another post, but now I'm interested in taxi May 2022 #20
My roommate thought it was his right to interrupt. Tetrachloride May 2022 #12
He doesn't think he's "red" he thinks he's "purple" or independent. Libertarian maybe? TigressDem May 2022 #15
yes my roommate also said he was independent. Tetrachloride May 2022 #18
Simple solution. usonian May 2022 #22
Maybe he would like to go film in Ukraine. TigressDem May 2022 #23
That's sad. Being an eyewitness is infinitely better than being captive to lies. usonian May 2022 #24
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