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What a stupid comment. Somehow following the law and making public records easily accessible, how does reporting on their vote after the fact impact the election?

This law was on the books before Kemp was sworn in as Secretary of State, he only did what his predecessors did - as required by law.

See http://elections.sos.ga.gov/El... - you can download absentee voter records from the past few year's elections.

Georgia's secretary of state and candidate for state governor in the midterm election, Brian Kemp, has taken the unusual, if not unprecedented step of posting the personal details of 291,164 absentee voters online for anyone to download.

Not unusual nor unprecedented at all. In fact, if you go here (hey everybody, I'm doxxing Georgia!) you can download Georgia voter absentee files in State, County, and Municipal elections dating back to 2013.

Fake news.

An Anonymous Coward noted:

The link is just shitty. It's actually http://sos.ga.gov/admin/files/...

Normally, I refuse to expend mod points on ACs. This post, however, definitely qualifies as "informative," and it deserved to be upmodded as such so it will be more visible to others.

I spent the last of my most recent mod points awarding it a +1 Informative upmod, because that was the right thing to do.

You're welcome, Slashdot ...

(Posting as AC only so as not to undo prior upmods in this thread.)

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I'm in Georgia, and in a little while I'll be heading over to https://mvd.dor.ga.gov/tags/ to renew mine. No "digital license plate" needed.

I think you'll need to try again after you get some more sleep, that link doesn't even mention a left turn lane, it seems like it's talking about a road called Suicide Lane because there were 88 accidents there in 11 months, but no evidence that there was a "suicide lane" there that caused 88 accidents.

Searching for "suicide lane" accident studies gets me articles like this one where apparently the "correct" thing to do is to never allow anyone to ever turn left again because some old woman turned left without checking for oncoming traffic. Likewise "Police and engineers often deride such lanes as 'suicide lanes,' not so much because cars might collide head-on, but because they allow people to cross traffic anywhere." I guess walling off left turns forever resolves my question of whether having the turning lane is safer than having people stop in the "fast" left lane to turn left, though if you're going to go to the expense of installing a wall on a 7 lane road, you might as well give up and upgrade it to a ramp-access freeway with service/frontage roads and underpasses to get to the other side.

The more professional terms "bidirectional left turn lane" or "two way left turn lane/TWLTL" gets a few actual studies. This study says that it's hard to determine if raised medians actually stop wrecks compared to TWLTL or if they move them to the cross streets where people are trying to go around the median to get to the other side. It suggests that raised medians are appropriate for residential sections (like your picture) rather than commercial sections, and feedback from people and companies on proposed median treatments seems to mirror that, with business developers preferring two way left turn lanes to raised medians, and residential developers and residents preferring wide, landscaped medians to both TWLTL and small concrete medians. This study from the '70s likewise suggests that TWLTL are recommended for commercial development. I did find this study where someone complained TWLTLs are scary, which amused me since apparently "scary" is a reason to erase all the lines from the road, but also a reason to not allow people to turn left.

If I had to go around a raised median every day I left my house, I too would demand it to be a very wide landscaped median, so I could actually U-turn around it without having to execute a 3 point turn (this study recommends to plan for a 48 foot turning radius for passenger cars, like turning from an 11' lane around a 22' median with two 11' lanes on the other side ). I'm afraid the street you've got in your photo is just irredeemably fucked. Add frequent speed humps and set the speed limit to 15 MPH with active enforcement by a local sheriff hired with neighborhood association dues to convince through traffic to find some other way around.

even if it is slower than the flow of traffic and causing a dangerous situation. Technically it's not against the law.

It is in Georgia!

Bull. They want the data because others (three-letter organizations) want it and secretly lobbied for it. They don't want the consumers to fully realize this.

This data is also exactly the reason why there seems to be a major push towards taxing driving based on miles - with GPS tracking, obviously.

US-centric look; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_miles_traveled_tax

Yep. And contrary to what anybody will admit, it is perfectly possible to implement a vehicle-miles-traveled-tax without GPS tracking everybody:

1. Step 1: Read everybody's odometer once a year when they renew their vehicle registration
2. Step 2: Make each vehicle owner pay $X * (current odo reading - previous odo reading)
3. Step 3: Add all the money together
4. Step 4: Gather up all the per-road-segment yearly traffic counts that state DOTs already collect anyway (e.g. for GA), and add it together
5. Step 5: Divide each road segment's usage by the total to get it as a percentage
6. Step 6: Group the road segments by jurisdiction
7. Step 7: Distribute the taxes collected in step 3 to the jurisdictions weighted by road usage

The bill is sponsored by the following Senators to the Georgia State Senate:
Rogers, Chip
Shafer, David
Unterman, Renee
Stoner, Doug

The bill is currently in the Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee so if you in Georgia and senator is on that committee I suggest contacting them with your thoughts.

It used to have a wildflower plate, until the state started charging $35/year to renew it each year.

Next year, I think I'm going to try applying for an alternative fuel tag -- looking at the application form, it has checkboxes only for "CNG or LPG", E85, or Electricity (no biodiesel), but the law it references reads as though biodiesel would qualify. I didn't think before I was eligible, but looking up the tag info to reply to your post made me realize I might be. Thanks!

• Passport
• Government ID card
• Military ID card
• Student ID card
• Public housing ID card
• Any ID specified by HAVA and New York State law as acceptable
• Utility bill
• Bank statement
• Paycheck
• Government check (Social Security, tax refund, military paycheck or paycheck stub)
• Other government documents with your name and address including but not limited to: voter registration card, hunting, fishing, or trapping license or firearm permit.

So, if you work - your paycheck stub is OK. If you work for cash - your bank statement. If you don't work - government check. If you don't work and are in public housing - housing ID card. If you have a landline phone - your bill. If you don't have a landline phone - cell phone bill with matching address. And so on, and so on. Please, PLEASE show me ONE person who can have any semblance of normal function in society and yet somehow avoid having ANY form of ID.

If someone doesn't have ANY form of ID (how the HELL do they live? How do they drive / buy cigarettes / alcohol / drugs? How do they avoid being arrested if stopped by a cop? How do they receive welfare or own a home? Who the HELL in today's society doesn't have ANY ID?), and they're too damn lazy to even call up the state and ask for a voter ID card, do we really need to hold their hand all the way to the voting booth? Or can we acknowledge that sacrificing the rights of hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters (whose vote would be canceled by someone else's fraudulent one) for the sake of a tiny percentage of lazy/arrogant jackasses who can't function on the most basic level, is a terrible idea?

Or do we instead cling to the "screw the rights of millions, protect the rights of the few" doctrine and allow rampant vote fraud to take place?

It wasn't a personal tax filing. I just looked up the division he was filing with.

Go here:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/HelpLinks/welcome.htm
the last link is:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/AUT/welcome.aspx/
which in Safari leads to:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/AUT/BrowserCheck.aspx

"We have detected that the browser you are using is incompatible with this application. This site requires Internet Explorer 5.0 and above, Netscape 7.0 and above, or Firefox 1.0 and above.

The use of an incompatible browser could possibly cause line and image format problems, as well as functionality issues when using this application.

To upgrade your Internet Explorer browser, go to Microsoft.com

To upgrade your Netscape browser, go to Netscape.com

To upgrade your Firefox browser, go to GetFirefox.com

So he was right that it didn't let him in with Safari, but admittedly quite wrong that it said anything about security.

But it is very weird. The programmers decided they can program for IE 5 and Firefox 1 but not Safari 5?

It wasn't a personal tax filing. I just looked up the division he was filing with.

Go here:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/HelpLinks/welcome.htm
the last link is:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/AUT/welcome.aspx/
which in Safari leads to:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/AUT/BrowserCheck.aspx

"We have detected that the browser you are using is incompatible with this application. This site requires Internet Explorer 5.0 and above, Netscape 7.0 and above, or Firefox 1.0 and above.

The use of an incompatible browser could possibly cause line and image format problems, as well as functionality issues when using this application.

To upgrade your Internet Explorer browser, go to Microsoft.com

To upgrade your Netscape browser, go to Netscape.com

To upgrade your Firefox browser, go to GetFirefox.com

So he was right that it didn't let him in with Safari, but admittedly quite wrong that it said anything about security.

But it is very weird. The programmers decided they can program for IE 5 and Firefox 1 but not Safari 5?

It wasn't a personal tax filing. I just looked up the division he was filing with.

Go here:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/HelpLinks/welcome.htm
the last link is:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/AUT/welcome.aspx/
which in Safari leads to:
https://gaefile.dor.ga.gov/AUT/BrowserCheck.aspx

"We have detected that the browser you are using is incompatible with this application. This site requires Internet Explorer 5.0 and above, Netscape 7.0 and above, or Firefox 1.0 and above.

The use of an incompatible browser could possibly cause line and image format problems, as well as functionality issues when using this application.

To upgrade your Internet Explorer browser, go to Microsoft.com

To upgrade your Netscape browser, go to Netscape.com

To upgrade your Firefox browser, go to GetFirefox.com

So he was right that it didn't let him in with Safari, but admittedly quite wrong that it said anything about security.

But it is very weird. The programmers decided they can program for IE 5 and Firefox 1 but not Safari 5?

Find the 9-digit rate table for sales tax in Georgia?
Georgia publishes a taxes-by-county table (soon-to-be-current one is at https://etax.dor.ga.gov/salestax/salestaxrates/LGS_2010_Jan_Rate_Chart_Moore.pdf )
I have no idea how to map that into zip+4.
Apple doesn't appear to know either; they just have an extra screen expressly to prompt me which county I live in.

I also challenge you to put up the statute and the state where you say this pseudo-law of yours applies. I've read my state's, and there is nothing like this. There is a blocking the intersection, but it's based on expectation and concept, not going through a green light with traffic at the time moving in an orderly and proper fashion.

I'm not a lawyer, and in particular not your lawyer, so I'm not going to verify that this is actual law. The Georgia 2009 Drivers Manual, however, states, on page 39, "At intersections with traffic control lights, wait until the intersection is clear of traffic or approaching traffic before entering. Do not proceed "just because" you have the green light."

Oh, its a lot worse than what the article claims. I suggest everyone living in the state of Georgia (US) to go read the bill. SB474 - Located here. This bill lets the state do all kinds of nasty things to "sex offendres" (I'll let others define that and argue about it).

Guess its time to write to my local Senator.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22county+tax ation
yields
http://www.etax.dor.ga.gov/ptd/adm/indexcounty.sht ml
which since you're from Georgia seems right up your alley.

People are opposed to it because the effect (if not the intent, but really the intent too) is to disenfranchise the kinds of people who don't have driver's licenses and for whom buying a replacement ID is an onerous burden, namely the poor, which is to say to a great extent, the black residents of the state.

Here is the Georgia State DMVS fee schedule.

A non-driver ID costs $20 for five years, or $35 for ten. That's $3.50-$4.00 per year. This is NOT an "onerous burden." This is four cans of soda. What's more, is they offer an ID card "for voting purposes only." Cost: free. Tempest, meet teapot.

For god's sake, Jimmy Carter is on board with this. While I often disagree with the former president's politics, I have no doubt about the man's integrity and honest desire to do the right thing. I would certainly trust him to not craft a system that disenfranchises poor voters.

In fact there's a bus that goes around providing them.
http://www.dds.ga.gov/drivers/dldata.aspx?con=1749 371755&ty=dl

The previous post is incorrect on all points. Just because the manufacturer no longer produces brake parts doesn't mean the aftermarket won't - this is not a rationale to crush the vehicles. Funny, I can still get brakes for my '73 Dodge Charger - but not from Dodge. The automotive aftermarket is alive and well, and happy to fill any void in consumable components discontinued from the OEM.

There are many much more obscure cars out there on the road, licensed, insured. Because these cars were either built in the US or imported to US standards at the time they are grandfathered in to US DOT. A 1994 model car would not be legal to be sold and licensed today due to different safety and emission standards, but no agency is forcing their removal from the road. The inability to insure a vehicle has nothing to do with this decision, and is moreover completely irrelevent. You can insure ANYTHING for the right price.

In addition, ANY INDIVIDUAL can build their OWN car from a kit or scratch and have it licensed and insured. Some of the only limitations the US DOT puts on vehicles are importing foreign-produced vehicles which were not DOT certified for the year in which they were produced. I know, I own a vehicle which is no longer imported into the US but is still produced overseas. The newer models cannot be licensed on US highways because they have not been TESTED to meet US standards (this does not necessarily mean that they would not pass, by the way).

You are also mistaken regarding salvage titles -- vehicles with salvage titles can certainly be driven on US roads and insured. The process to go about this in Georgia, at least, is listed here:

Georgia DMV Salvage title process

All states have similar processes.