Good point. The Democrats, and largely mental case progressives, are calling the shots and yet the people they pretend to care about are allegedly having all of these issues. I guess they're the ones suppressing the vote.
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Funny, it's the game day atmosphere that is the final nail in the coffin for me. After several years sitting in the same seats with the dame neighbors, I don't know any of them. It is impossible to carry on a conversation now. I feel isolated in a crowd of 107,000. And this is from a guy who has been to over 400 games, home and away.
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Right about Joe then but he was not doing that in the 70's and 80's when he had the program elite. Had no choice by 2005 because you had pampered spoiled recruits expecting it because they had everyone and their freaking neighbor's grandmother telling them how effing great they are. Also did we have heartless players like Brandon Smith opting out of bowl games in 2005?
I actually believe the individual states have a large control over how many polling places, early voting and all of that more so than cities etc. Which is one of the issues down south. Our goal should be to as a society to break records getting people out to vote. That should be exciting for everybody. Not trying to limit the number. If your policies are not getting enough of the votes then you tweak them to get more not try to eliminate polling places or limit early voting etc.
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Interesting. I went to every home game from '76 to '84 as a kid and loved the games but have not been to many home games in the last 30 years. Disappointing to hear that. The White Outs are fun and exciting though. That is PSU football's biggest differentiating strength at this point.
My college football habit will be difficult to break but the game will never be the same. How many of you are old enough to remember when college sports were played by college STUDENTS?
There is a big article in SI talking about the big meetings coming up. They might split D1 into a subdivision with the Power 5 conferences in one group possibly everybody else below which means in that power 5 there may not be scholarship limits in any sport. Change is coming is the only thing for sure soon.
I doubt that and in states like NY, the Democrats control everything so I'm not sure why all these roadblocks haven't been addressed. Now suddenly we have to stop the terrible suppression. In this country anymore there's always a reason to play the victim card even when there are no victims. And I'm not saying you didn't make valid points about waiting eight hours in a line. That is ridiculous but in cities like NYC that declare themselves sanctuary cities and flagrant defy are immigration policies I'm not sure when they wouldn't correct these delay problems in those same cities.
And if people want to vote from home apply for absentee ballots like we've done forever. We don't need folks going around handing out absentee ballots in apartment building under the guise of making voting easier when they are actually lobbying for one side. That's voter manimpulation - not voter rights.
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Elections are run by the counties, at least in Pa. And the large cities run the counties because of their dominate size.
It should be noted that the people who setup polling locations and policies are the local people who live there. If there is a dearth of polling locations in Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc, it is the people current complaining about voter suppression who are responsible.
Also worth pointing out that amid the cries of voter suppression, voting turnout among black and Latinos is at an all-time high. If people are trying to suppress minority voting, they are really incompetent.
We broke all records last election. Highest number of total votes and had the highest turnout percentage in 120 years. Who ever is suppressing the vote isn’t doing a very good job......
Yes the last election break records which is awesome but there were still people DOWN SOUTH that had to wait in many hour long lines. That is unacceptable in this day. and it is a tribute to those people that they still voted cause as I said I would not have. They should not have to endure multiple hours of lines to cast a vote.
Like where? Atlanta? Houston?
There absolutely should be more machines and more voting sites where needed. No one should stand in line that long. But where are the most problems?
IMHO, sports has gone the way of society. Might sound morbid, but life isn't as much fun. It's sad, but I used to have friends from all over. Now, if you pull for another team, it's no longer good natured ribbing, but a disagreement and hatred that has taken its place. Some of my best friends turned on me because of the Sandusky mess, but even before that fans were making it a miserable experience to go to an away game. I was seeing stuff that I never believed would happen. I always felt confident that I could recommend going to PS for a game, but many of our own fans have become unbearable to be around. I fear there is no going backward, and I hate to see it die!!!!!
Yes. And Fulton Co was in charge of those elections.
This was written after the 2020 primary elections.....
The longer of it is that Georgia law lays a number of significant election responsibilities at the feet of county authorities. Some of those include:
- "To select and equip polling places for use in primaries and elections."
- "To purchase, except voting machines, preserve, store, and maintain election equipment of all kinds, including voting booths and ballot boxes and to procure ballots and all other supplies for primaries and elections."
- "To appoint poll officers and other officers to serve in primaries and elections."
- "To make and issue such rules, regulations, and instructions... for the guidance of poll officers, custodians, and electors in primaries and elections."
- "To instruct poll officers and others in their duties, calling them together in meetings whenever deemed advisable, and to inspect systematically and thoroughly the conduct of primaries and elections in the several precincts of his or her county to the end that primaries and elections may be honestly, efficiently, and uniformly conducted."
- https://www.11alive.com/article/new...-what/85-de1989cc-62e7-4435-a9c9-f3892c7932bd
Well said. I remember sitting in a Big 10 meeting several years ago......all the Big 10 school reps were there....and we all know each other pretty well.......and Jim Delaney was giving his routine meeting talk........and he said to all the school reps, "Look around you.......in 5 or 6 years you are not going to be seeing each other.....each school is going to have to make choices....a couple/few of you will join a super national conference......the rest of you will be part of a second level conference" (more-or-less what he said).......Basically, he saw it coming.....and he knew it would be the result of pay-for-play, NIL, etc.......and at the time knew that the only thing they could do was delay it......but not stop it.....it was inevitable. It is amazing in how in the last couple of years, my decades of intensity (almost obsession) with Penn State football has washed out of me......not that I don't like Penn State....I just have no interest in the new college football.
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