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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
More information on the Romney tax plan
From what I understand, to vote as an absentee, you need to request a ballot from your jurisdiction (or state, or whatever). This has a deadline. You get the ballot by mail and return it, which also has a deadline. These ballots get counted and added to the total. You would do this if you know you'll be away on Election Day and you don't have the ability to go in for early voting.
Military serving overseas get absentee ballots automatically, as I understand it, but there is or has been some controversy over the deadlines for getting them out, which are set by law. There have been cases in which they have not been sent out in time and officials have sought to invalidate them on that basis.
Personally, I feel that you should not invalidate a person's vote because of the postmark on the ballot, except in clear-cut cases like a ballot sent after the election date. However, apparently the majority of certified voter fraud in this country is from absentee ballots.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"That's understandable, all things considered.
Isn't part of that that people vote and then die? If you're dead as of election day, you don't get a voice.
(NOTE: I looked it up, and it looks like in Georgia, you need to be 75 to get an absentee ballot? So, in that case, it makes sense why the above is true)
Discrimination against dead people!
edited 16th Oct '12 1:28:38 PM by TheyCallMeTomu
That particular bit of "fraud" consists of eligible voters who use absentee or early voting and die prior to Election Day. They voted in good faith at the time they were alive to do so.
Now, a guy dying five years ago who still sends in a ballot... yeah, that's fishy.
edited 16th Oct '12 1:31:21 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Most likely, this is the one time I'll agree with Tom Coburn
edited 16th Oct '12 1:42:33 PM by Enkufka
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryOh no you did NOT just diss American Sports! Hands off mah football. FREEEDOOOMMMM!
*cough* These organizations have no business filing as non-profits. Bad bad sports organizations.
edited 16th Oct '12 2:10:43 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Kind of related: Starbucks: no slouches in tax-dodging
... the global way...
Thanks for sending us the virus, US... ;P
EDIT: Don't ask me why... but, sometimes, Ctrl+C and Chromium don't always like each other immediately.
Sorry about the thing in the clipboard not being the thing I thought was in the clipboard.
edited 16th Oct '12 3:41:38 PM by Euodiachloris
Starbucks appears to be using what is known as Hollywood accounting; paying yourself money so that your net profit is negative or near zero, so you don't have to pay stakeholders.
That being said, it's your own fault-the tax code allows those loopholes, so of course Starbucks is going to take advantage of them. To do otherwise is to the detriment of the shareholders, and thus morally wrong. Corporations are not individuals, and have moral responsibilities-change the law so that a given course of action is unprofitable, instead of complaining that they're not playing fair.
edited 16th Oct '12 3:57:09 PM by TheyCallMeTomu
Ross Perot endorses Mitt Romney.
Perot: We can't afford Obama
edited 16th Oct '12 4:02:25 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Wasn't Perot the guy who was so rich he could afford to fund an entire campaign out of his pocket? I wonder why he supports Romney...
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The Heritage Foundation being cited is just so much more ironic since Obama has repeatedly talked about how Obamacare is basically a Heritage Foundation idea, noting that he takes the best ideas from conservatives when they come up with the best ideas.
edited 16th Oct '12 1:08:35 PM by GlennMagusHarvey