On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 22:46:49 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 4/5/2021 7:24 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:39:54 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 1 Apr 2021 19:43:24 -0700 (PDT), Dean
Hoffman wrote:

I've been seeing a lot lately about how terrible the changes to Georgia's voting laws are. It's sure easy to see how people with full schedules can be misled about such things. This is the counter position.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/georgia-should-stand-up-to-corporate-bullies/
There was some Georgia official on tv chewing out the President. He claimed the President's home state of Delaware has more restrictive voting laws than Georgia's new ones.

I plan to read your link, but in case I don't, the NPR story on this
said there was good and bad. I don't remember if they gave a ratio.

One thing bound to get much attention is the rule against giving food or
water to someone waiting in line to vote. That seems rather
indefensible, but maybe there is more to it?

I think that gets around bribing voters. It might be a $1 bottle of
water but they might also be giving out sandwiches and beer.
Why not throw in a pack of cigarettes, then you are Chicago.

I know as a state inspector I was not allowed to take a bottle of
water, cup of coffee or any food from someone who's job I was
inspecting.


As I understand it, the rule prohibits political parties from handing
out food. I can agree with that. If, however the Girl Scouts or some
school activity group wants to do a community help project it would be
allowed.

As for your inspector requirements, that is understandable. My mother
took care of the inspectors when they came to one of my step father's
jobs. She would never offer anything but the plain white envelope on
the table would be gone when the inspector left.

That was the kind of things that were going on in Dade county that got
the whole inspector business and building business in general,
tightened up in the early 90s. After Andrew they were finding whole
roofs laying in the road in spite of the toughest building code in the
country.
No straps on the trusses, a dozen nails in the sheathing, shingles
tacked on with a couple of staples and $35k a year inspectors driving
Benzes and 48 foot fishing boats.
The whole thing got shaken up, state wide. There is now a unified
building code, state wide, no local exceptions or rules. Everyone is
licensed and there are certifications. (Required CEUs etc) They
started taking that "ethics" thing seriously and guys went to jail
(builders and inspectors).
By the time my wife got in the building biz in the late 90s, nobody
had even heard of an inspector being bribed.
The other side of that is they made it easier to sue builders, even if
they passed inspection. Gross negligence can be called fraud and can
get them jail time.