Don’t normalize this shit, the covid vax might not be the poison the elite have been outspoken about wanting to inject us with for decades, but shaping society to get us to accept forced vaccination is what will get us there.

We are still under a mask mandate in my state. Went to a garden center and I only realized after about 20 minutes that the staff both inside and out were not wearing masks. I was not going to buy anything because they are IMHO overpriced. Bought $40 of plants to support the business because they might be higher priced, but they are based. They deserve my business.

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I don't live in Georgia so while I kept up with the news around SB202 I didn't actually read it in full or anything. But I just read a tweet some liberal posted saying that the bill got rid of signature matching for absentee ballots in favor of just putting down your driver's license or state ID number on the application. I thought, "there's no way that's true" and went to go fact check her, but found out it actually is. From the bill:

In order to confirm the identity of the voter, such form shall require the elector to provide his or her name, date of birth, address as registered, address where the elector wishes the ballot to be mailed, and the number of his or her Georgia driver's license or identification card issued pursuant to Article 5 of Chapter 5 of Title 40.

If you don't have a state ID or driver's license, then you have to attach a copy of your voter identification card (§ 21-2-417), but otherwise you ONLY HAVE TO PUT YOUR ID NUMBER. Maybe I'm missing something, but that seems very, very insecure to me. You don't need to provide a copy of the ID that's in your possession, just the number? All you would have to do to request an absentee ballot on someone else's behalf is obtain their driver's license or state ID number. Someone who works in an occupation that has reason to check IDs (and especially places where they hold them as collateral, like at a bar for your tab, or an apartment complex as a security thing for guests, etc.) would be able to request ballots for each person's ID that passed through their hands (or could sell those ID numbers to someone who would). Anyone with access to a database that includes DL numbers, same problem. When you go get the COVID shot, the paperwork has you fill out your driver's license number on the form. Just about everyone who went on unemployment this past year would have had to provide their license number to "prevent unemployment fraud" after states started getting scammers, and at least one unemployment worker had access to it as part of processing the application. There are plenty of places you've probably filled out your DL number or given it over the phone during your lifetime-- think about it, we don't consider them nearly as sensitive of information as we do something like an SSN.

I just keep thinking about when I visited my cousin who is in college at her dorm last year. To be able to enter the dorm as a guest you have to supply your ID to the front desk for security reasons. You aren't allowed in without it (with exceptions for children only). It sits at the front desk with the student employee the entire time you are inside and returned to you only when you sign out. As far as I know that is a pretty standard protocol at many colleges and universities, and you know where their student employees would be most likely to fall on the political spectrum...

But even if you never give your ID number to anyone, aren't state ID and driver's license numbers potentially hackable? The way I understand it, they are based off of your personal information (name, birth date, sex) meaning someone with that information can potentially figure out your driver's license number. Now I live in Maryland, not Georgia, but I can go to this website (http://www.highprogrammer.com/cgi-bin/uniqueid/dl_md) and put in my name and birth date and it comes up with my EXACT driver's license number. I've asked a couple of my friends to verify it works for them too and it does. There isn't one for Georgia yet on that particular site, but I wouldn't be surprised if it existed elsewhere on the web or if it was only a matter of time until it's added to the list-- when I first found out about that site there were only three states available and now there are eight (though some of them only work for older IDs) where you can look up a person's driver's license number with only their name and birthday. I don't even want to think about how easy it is to get peoples' ID numbers on the dark web or whatever, too.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but considering all that, doesn't only having to supply an ID NUMBER when applying for an absentee ballot make it POTENTIALLY MUCH EASIER to commit fraud than with signature matching? Why did they do away with the signature matching? Why couldn't they at least have had BOTH ID number AND signature? Why not require everyone to send a copy of their ID? Why on earth would they write the bill this way when they had the chance to make it MORE SECURE? Everyone is acting like this bill will make Georgia elections so much more secure, but this seems like a huge blind spot. Maybe I'm overreacting but this seems like something that should concern more people yet I never saw anyone mention it until today??

Seriously guys, there's nothing to worry about, I feel great and haven't had a single side effec-trumplezergiinnazee...