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lemonlime

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  1. Your answer is in your first sentence.
  2. Yes, it's illegal. I imagine because he has a gun and is an employee there on behalf of the city, and the poll workers, likely elderly volunteers, aren't going to tell the police how to do their jobs.
  3. In case anyone's wondering why it's so important to the GOP to ram Barrett through before the election.
  4. Of course, the Trumps and the Giulianis wouldn’t understand this. It’s not like any of them care about their families.
  5. I'll even buy that broke fuck a plane ticket to Moscow for January 21, 2021.
  6. This is the only footage I've ever seen of him where he appears to be genuinely smiling:
  7. Here's actual data from Wisconsin. https://elections.wi.gov/index.php/node/7181. Wisconsin doesn't register voters by party and that information is not known. 785,553 absentee ballots have been cast so far (approx 2.7 M votes total in the 2016 election). Early voting doesn't start until October 20. I'm not sure how you can read much into that, except to say that there were a shit ton of absentee ballots received in Dane and Milwaukee counties, which are the two most liberal counties (Madison and Milwaukee). How that translates into final vote, who knows. Maybe it's just that people in those areas got more absentee ballots due to Covid? And anecdotally, I have family in Wisconsin, and the sense I get is that they are still royally pissed at the games the GOP played with the vote in the primary this summer, and also with trying to throw out votes a few weeks ago. At the least, I'm sure there's a lot of enthusiasm on the dem side.
  8. It's Mississippi. So I'm not overly optimistic. But there was a recent poll that had this as a one point race.
  9. Are you suggesting that our voting systems should be set up for an apathetic electorate? We want people motivated to vote, no? Our systems need to be designed to accommodate voters when they are motivated, or at the very least not make it more difficult for motivated voters to vote. You have yet to explain why this is okay. No (other?) country with free and fair elections has hours long lines, regardless of how motivated and excited their voters are. Many (most?) states don’t have these lines either. I have yet to see the video of the hours long line in Boston or San Francisco. Why are you ok with your government setting up voting processes that result in your neighbors standing in line multiple hours to cast a ballot?
  10. If you're looking for somewhere to donate. Good on Jose Andres. Although sad that this is a thing.
  11. NSIAP. Even the Simpsons getting in on this.
  12. Sure we can. But given how many online data breaches there have been, it makes no sense to do so. There are plenty of safer, convenient ways for people to vote. If the government chooses to allow them, as opposed to what's going on now in red states.
  13. It's telling that so many people want to criticize others for waiting in line, instead of criticizing a system designed for this to happen.
  14. This. I live in NJ. Received my ballot in the mail. Filled it out and dropped it off at a drop box located about 5 blocks from my house. There were several other drop boxes within a few miles or I could have mailed it back postage paid. There is zero reason we can’t do this everywhere. The long lines are by design
  15. Let’s blame the people who waited in an 11 hour line for the line, rather than the voting “system” which allowed this to happen. Also, yesterday was a day off work for many people. That may have been their only time when they could afford to spend hours in line.
  16. This. And it's not even the money. There are plenty of states where people never wait more than a few minutes to vote. Hint, they're mostly run by Democrats.
  17. Not that many. The state has worked overtime to stop them from voting. By such measures as insisting that all fines be paid before voting rights can be restored, but not having an accurate, easily accessible record of the amount of the fine. For example, https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2020/10/07/florida-ruled-felons-must-pay-to-vote-now-it-doesnt-know-how-many-can/
  18. So you don't vote. And you don't know what's going on in your own country, including what your government is doing in your name to young children. And you're a white, Christian, straight man, lucky enough to have a job in which you can drive around in a camper with no roof all year. But despite your avoidance of any knowledge or responsibility for what's going on in your own country, you're going to criticize others as "bed wetters." Must be nice to be so secure in your views, with so little actual awareness.
  19. Both sides. Except only one side has nominated Cheeto Mussolini. Your "side" is full of sycophants, divorced from all reality, and who have forgotten about basic decency. You don't get a pass for your "side's" absolute moral bankruptcy by assuming that people on the other "side" would do the same, when they haven't actually done so.
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