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A commercial by Liquid Death is warning Georgians against giving water to voters waiting outside polling places to cast their ballots. PolitiFact checks the company's claim.
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For more than a week before Election Day, a commercial has warned Georgians against giving water to voters waiting outside polling places to cast their ballots.

"Do you live in Georgia? Do you have to drink water to stay alive? Do you want to participate in democracy? Too bad!" says the narrator in the 90-second video from canned water company Liquid Death. "Because thanks to new laws in the great state of Georgia, it's now illegal to give people water within 150 feet of a polling place."

An image shows text of a Georgia law known as SB 202. The narrator also suggests that voters might have to wait in line outside polling places for as long as eight hours. But "helping people murder their thirst in line is so illegal, it’s now punishable by up to a year in prison. Wow!"
The commercial hawks a "Georgia Election Hydration Kit," including a can of the company’s water, at a cost of $1 for Georgia residents. The California company’s website shows the kits as sold out.

The ad also refers viewers to Headcount.org, a nonpartisan voter registration organization.
The commercial’s two-part claim — that it's "illegal to give people water within 150 feet of a polling place" and doing so is "punishable by up to a year in prison" — is accurate.

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