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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Closed electronic voting machines. Something that's hardwired to not be tampered with, and that enters the data on a nonrewritable medium: CD-Rs work well. It should also have no internet connection or any physical means of accepting data outside of voting input.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Personally, I love optical scan ballots (where you fill in bubbles, SAT-style, or connect arrows to represent your vote). You've got an actual paper record, and because the actual voting is done on a paper ballot you can do it even without power, but you get all the benefits of machine-tabulated votes. The error rate is pretty low, too–around 0.7% is what I've heard.
The Secretary of State is for the most part in charge of state elections, and the incumbent has...a bit of a record screwing with it.
For example, she threw out a shitload of initiative petitions because they didn't have staple holes (most street-collected petitions are held by clipboard) on the basis of suddenly "reinterpreting" the initiative requirements to specifically need staples despite not mentioning them at all.
She also changed the Labor and Industries seat election to the general election instead of the primaries, thus disproportionately benefiting the Democrat candidate due to higher turnout. While it does make more sense to have it there, the fact that she did it immediately before it would have happened and without telling said candidates in advance is...shady.
She also hasn't been enforcing or obeying campaign limit laws we put on the books in 2006 — though granted that one's legally justified via a clusterfuck of idiots not reading the measure
who refused to pass an amendment that would let us pass restrictions while simultaneously passing the restrictions themselves.
edited 26th Oct '12 4:33:45 PM by Pykrete
Star-struck Paul Ryan meets NASCAR star Richard Petty.
I'm trying {and failing) to visualize this scene,.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Remember that guy who hung his chair
◊ after Eastwood's speech at the Republican Convention?
The Secret Service payed him a visit.
edited 26th Oct '12 4:36:39 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Hah, I'll bet they did. Decorate smarter, not harder.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.It really bothers me that some of the people in the comments don't see why this is a big deal. Even ignoring the racist implications shouldn't it be obvious why threatening the life of the president is a bad idea? I mean could you imagine what would happen if something symbolic of Mitt Romney (any ideas as to what?) was set on fire? Fox News and Limbaugh would have a field day and people would probably be screaming about liberal threats and extremists or some bullshit.
John McCain To Snooki: I Miss You
....
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Still, Freedom of Speech and all that jazz.
edited 26th Oct '12 5:18:52 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016What? No, I'm saying people shouldn't be defending him. My statements are directed at the people that say this is okay because it's free speech not what the government did in response.
I mean it's also free speech if I say someone should kill Mitt Romney but I can guarantee if I did that and it got a lot of attention Fox would rake me over the coals.
edited 26th Oct '12 5:33:56 PM by Kostya
What Romney said about gays as governor should be spewed all over the airwaves.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
The quote was from 2005, that's too old to be relevant. Its like Obama talking about wealth redistribution in the 1990s.
Besides Gay Rights aren't going to sway anyone at this point. Anyone who is pro-gay rights is voting democrat or independent (excluding pro-gay people who don't feel strongly about the issue and are voting Republican for some other reason, and delusional fools like GO Proud).
Although mentioning some of those things he did as Governor might slightly help the Obama campaign.
edited 26th Oct '12 5:58:33 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Hanging politicians in effigy is an extremely common thing in the United States.
This. People who feel strongly for gay rights are under a concept known as identity politics which means they will hop, and be extremely loyal, to the political party that supports their cause. Which means pro-gay rights voters are already Democrat and are already voting and already feel strongly about the election. And after their cause has completed its goals, they (and the group they are a part of/support) will remain with that party for the rest of their life in extremely high numbers (70-100%) and will be easier for the party to get them out to vote.
So long as the opposite party doesn't one-up them sometime afterwards like the Democrats did with the Republicans with the civil rights act.
Political science FTW. I liked that major. Once I got to my second year, though, I dropped it like a hat.
edited 26th Oct '12 7:16:41 PM by Completion

Neither do I, at least not at this level.
But the increased use of electronic voting is inevitable at this point.
Sen. Harry Reid suffers minor injuries in Las Vegas car crash
edited 26th Oct '12 4:02:32 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016