Jartard said:

Are you trying to imply that most blacks live in rural areas given the distance to travel???!

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riflearm2 said:

Minorities, especially blacks, have lower incomes. Lower incomes are more negatively impacted when they don't have close places to vote, because they don't have the money/time/ability to travel longer distances for drop boxes. DeSantis drastically reduced the number and locations of drop boxes.

More, low income citizens don't have flexibility with their jobs where they can escape during lunch to drop off a ballot. So instead, they have to use the drop boxes before or after work. But DeSantis changed the drop boxes from being 24/7 access to about a third of that time.

So we know DeSantis drastically reduced the overall number of drop boxes, drastically reduced the location of the drop boxes, and drastically reduced the hours to use the drop box. Do you think he would have done all of those things if it would have hurt Republican voters more than Democratic voters? Of course not. But it gets worse.

Historically, voters stuck in situations like above could just rely on a neighbor, a community group, their church, etc. to drop off their ballot, especially now that the drop boxes are far less and open hours are far less. But what did DeSantis do? He banned that from happening. A person dropping off votes can only have their ballot and two others. So community organizations, voting rights groups, churches, your nephew, or hell, even a friendly neighbor who is collecting and turning in ballots from the street can no longer do that. And once again, that is predicted to overwhelmingly

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riflearm2 said:

Minorities, especially blacks, have lower incomes. Lower incomes are more negatively impacted when they don't have close places to vote, because they don't have the money/time/ability to travel longer distances for drop boxes. DeSantis drastically reduced the number and locations of drop boxes.

More, low income citizens don't have flexibility with their jobs where they can escape during lunch to drop off a ballot. So instead, they have to use the drop boxes before or after work. But DeSantis changed the drop boxes from being 24/7 access to about a third of that time.

So we know DeSantis drastically reduced the overall number of drop boxes, drastically reduced the location of the drop boxes, and drastically reduced the hours to use the drop box. Do you think he would have done all of those things if it would have hurt Republican voters more than Democratic voters? Of course not. But it gets worse.

Historically, voters stuck in situations like above could just rely on a neighbor, a community group, their church, etc. to drop off their ballot, especially now that the drop boxes are far less and open hours are far less. But what did DeSantis do? He banned that from happening. A person dropping off votes can only have their ballot and two others. So community organizations, voting rights groups, churches, your nephew, or hell, even a friendly neighbor who is collecting and turning in ballots from the street can no longer do that. And once again, that is predicted to overwhelmingly hurt minorities, especially blacks, more.

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riflearm2 said:

Minorities, especially blacks, have lower incomes. Lower incomes are more negatively impacted when they don't have close places to vote, because they don't have the money/time/ability to travel longer distances for drop boxes. DeSantis drastically reduced the number and locations of drop boxes.

More, low income citizens don't have flexibility with their jobs where they can escape during lunch to drop off a ballot. So instead, they have to use the drop boxes before or after work. But DeSantis changed the drop boxes from being 24/7 access to about a third of that time.

So we know DeSantis drastically reduced the overall number of drop boxes, drastically reduced the location of the drop boxes, and drastically reduced the hours to use the drop box. Do you think he would have done all of those things if it would have hurt Republican voters more than Democratic voters? Of course not. But it gets worse.

Historically, voters stuck in situations like above could just rely on a neighbor, a community group, their church, etc. to drop off their ballot, especially now that the drop boxes are far less and open hours are far less. But what did DeSantis do? He banned that from happening. A person dropping off votes can only have their ballot and two others. So community organizations, voting rights groups, churches, your nephew, or hell, even a friendly neighbor who is collecting and turning in ballots from the street can no longer do that. And once again, that is predicted to overwhelmingly hurt minorities, especially blacks, more.

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wvkeeper(HN) said:

So minorities can't vote right unless whitey Dems help?

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SBAP74 said:

Is he a nazi too? Everything is racist with you.

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riflearm2 said:

Do you deplorables actually think before posting?

MoRon DeSantis had "that much competence" because he changed what they did in terms of voting which severely impacted minorities.

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-CarlHungus- said:

Imagine having this much competence running things. Desantis can’t win a national election but he can run shit.

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muthed said:

If the batter is 3 for 20 his BA is .150. If he gets a hit his next time up his batting average climbs to only .190. That's 4 ÷ 21. Your math is flawed. You'd better talk to your banker buddy and get some tutoring.

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riflearm2 said:

As seen on the below map, 75 would be closer to 100 than 80 would much of the time.
That’s because interstates running vertically end in -5, while interstates running horizontally end in -0. So even though 80 and 100 would both be horizontal, they’d basically run parallel while 75 would intersect with 100 at some point, making them closer than 80 and 100.


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Of course you weren’t talking about interstates, but it was perfect to prove my point: you’re trying to be black-and-white when there is a lot of gray in this discussion. That gray refers to whatever is specifically being analyzed.

A perfect example:

Assume a baseball player had 500 at bats. Assume he hit .160, which means he had 80 hits. In order for him to increase his average to .200, he would have to hit 50% better over his next 500 at bats. Improving by 50% is a huge jump to reach. Even though .160 is 80% of 200, the player was nowhere close to hitting .200.

On the other hand, assume he only had 20 at bats and only had three hits. He would have an average of .150. Yet he would only be one hit away from having hit .200, so saying he was close to hitting .200 is logical and makes sense in that situation. Even though his average was only .150 (compared to the example above where his average was .160), the guy who went 3-20 is far closer to hitting .200 since he was only one hit away from reaching that level.

So in this case, which is closer to .200? .160 or .150? By far, the .150 is closer to .200 than the .160.

It goes back to what I have faulted you on before (and is yet another of my top strengths, as told to me by the Brown University grads who ran footballoutsiders.com): statistical analysis. You struggle with it, and the example above is proof of why it is so important.

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big_country90 said:

Florida will be finished counting votes before my kids’ bedtime.

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