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i don't understand why we cannot vote on a machine that prints out our paper results, which we then review and submit to be scanned in as a vote.
That sounds like a lot of clicks.

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9 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

i don't understand why we cannot vote on a machine that prints out our paper results, which we then review and submit to be scanned in as a vote.

Are you trying to suppress me?!?!?!?

6 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

i don't understand why we cannot vote on a machine that prints out our paper results, which we then review and submit to be scanned in as a vote.

If you don't trust the selections on the screen to be counted correctly, why are you trusting the printed paper copy to be scanned correctly?  

  1. Enter votes on a screen. 
  2. Print out paper. 
  3. Verify paper. 
  4. Scan paper into machine to count the votes. 
  5. Retain paper for potential recount.  

very inefficient process.  If I want to opt for Step 1 only, would I be allowed to? 

3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If you don't trust the selections on the screen to be counted correctly, why are you trusting the printed paper copy to be scanned correctly?  

  1. Enter votes on a screen. 
  2. Print out paper. 
  3. Verify paper. 
  4. Scan paper into machine to count the votes. 
  5. Retain paper for potential recount.  

very inefficient process.  If I want to opt for Step 1 only, would I be allowed to? 

my main reasoning behind it has to do with two things: seeing your vote is correct, and having a paper backup in case the mechanical aspect goes down for whatever reason. 

It's sad that Oklahoma has a system that hasn't had a controversy in my lifetime.  Backwards ass Oklahoma, think about that.  

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2 minutes ago, Dertyberd said:

It's sad that Oklahoma has a system that hasn't had a controversy in my lifetime.  Backwards ass Oklahoma, think about that.  

Dems have just started winning more offices in Oklahoma.  The way things are now, when they win more offices in 2020 and 2022, you'll see the R's flipping the fuck out.

7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Dems have just started winning more offices in Oklahoma.  The way things are now, when they win more offices in 2020 and 2022, you'll see the R's flipping the fuck out.

Dems won the only possible seat they could.  OKC has changed a lot, but the rest of the state is horrible.  The Trump candidate, "business outsider" real estate sleaze ball, just crushed in the Gov's race against a moderate, gun toting, veteran, former prosector Dem.  It wasn't even close.  OKC will continue to turn blue, along with Tulsa, but they'll have it Gerrymandered in 2020.  R's aren't losing power anytime soon and the dumbs, meths, and religious folks ain't leaving the state.  

1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

i don't understand why we cannot vote on a machine that prints out our paper results, which we then review and submit to be scanned in as a vote.

From my understanding, this is exactly how most of the machines in KS function. 

2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

From the Department of "No Shit"

 

 

Having lived and been back to California many times, and having been to Florida way too many times, this is one of the least surprising things I’ve ever read. 

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If you don't trust the selections on the screen to be counted correctly, why are you trusting the printed paper copy to be scanned correctly?  

  1. Enter votes on a screen. 
  2. Print out paper. 
  3. Verify paper. 
  4. Scan paper into machine to count the votes. 
  5. Retain paper for potential recount.  

very inefficient process.  If I want to opt for Step 1 only, would I be allowed to? 

Or just steps 1 through 3. Use the count from the (1), but keep the paper ballot for verification (via random sampling) and hand counting if issue arises.

Edited by Dahobbs

I read somewhere that, nationwide, in all elections combined, Democrats averaged 9 per cent more votes than their Republican counterparts.  That seems significant if true.

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If you don't trust the selections on the screen to be counted correctly, why are you trusting the printed paper copy to be scanned correctly?  

  1. Enter votes on a screen. 
  2. Print out paper. 
  3. Verify paper. 
  4. Scan paper into machine to count the votes. 
  5. Retain paper for potential recount.  

very inefficient process.  If I want to opt for Step 1 only, would I be allowed to? 


This would be older voter suppression.  No way they could master this.  :)

33 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


This would be older voter suppression.  No way they could master this.  :)

So this and type 2 dibedus are our best hopes for the future?

47 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I read somewhere that, nationwide, in all elections combined, Democrats averaged 9 per cent more votes than their Republican counterparts.  That seems significant if true.

It's true, but, it's also noteworthy in CA it was Dem vs. Dem for Senator (Feinstein/DeLeon) due to our "jungle primary".   

Even taking that into account, Dems received a shitload more votes. 

4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If you don't trust the selections on the screen to be counted correctly, why are you trusting the printed paper copy to be scanned correctly?  

  1. Enter votes on a screen. 
  2. Print out paper. 
  3. Verify paper. 
  4. Scan paper into machine to count the votes. 
  5. Retain paper for potential recount.  

very inefficient process.  If I want to opt for Step 1 only, would I be allowed to? 

The reason cited earlier is that a paper proof of your vote could be traded for hard cash to verify your vote was for the proper candidate. 

Scenario 1) boss goes to employees. Wants the hard copy as proof that you voted correctly. Hints at repercussions if incorrect or absent. 

Scenario 2) well-monied individual spreads word in a poor community that a vote for their preferred candidate is worth a hundred dollars. 

Neither is possible without some kind of hard copy of your vote record. 

4 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

The reason cited earlier is that a paper proof of your vote could be traded for hard cash to verify your vote was for the proper candidate. 

Scenario 1) boss goes to employees. Wants the hard copy as proof that you voted correctly. Hints at repercussions if incorrect or absent. 

Scenario 2) well-monied individual spreads word in a poor community that a vote for their preferred candidate is worth a hundred dollars. 

Neither is possible without some kind of hard copy of your vote record. 

in my scenario, you would not take the vote with you. it would remain at the polling station.

9 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

The reason cited earlier is that a paper proof of your vote could be traded for hard cash to verify your vote was for the proper candidate. 

Scenario 1) boss goes to employees. Wants the hard copy as proof that you voted correctly. Hints at repercussions if incorrect or absent. 

Scenario 2) well-monied individual spreads word in a poor community that a vote for their preferred candidate is worth a hundred dollars. 

Neither is possible without some kind of hard copy of your vote record. 

"Walking around money"?

Republicans can't win elections without cheating. It's simply mathematics. So that Trump won means he cheated via hacking, suppression and rigging. It a mathematical certainty.

The GOP is the SEC. Literally.

26 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

in my scenario, you would not take the vote with you. it would remain at the polling station.

Ok. That's better. I would like to put mine in to a shredder,  sparking it up in the local voting area would probably be frowned upon. I suppose though it would be better to have them secured until the election is verified. THEN we can have the great burning. 

1 hour ago, Agent47 said:

Republicans can't win elections without cheating. It's simply mathematics. So that Trump won means he cheated via hacking, suppression and rigging. It a mathematical certainty.

The GOP is the SEC. Literally.

You can't take a hint can you Sugar?

 

Like making fun of you for your time and consideration in this matter and I will never be able to get laid.

What happened to the blue wave?

The GOP should be sued by the end of this month-end and then they will never admit it but I'm always down ballot for Trump wealth of knowledge in red deer hunting for a while now so that Texas Roadhouse and I think Joel.

35 minutes ago, EuroHorn said:

What happened to the blue wave?

It occurred.

Edited by thepop

41 minutes ago, EuroHorn said:

What happened to the blue wave?

You should try to stay more informed. 

What happened to the blue wave?

Biggest dem midterm since watergate. Elephant out in front shoulda told ya.
6 hours ago, Agent47 said:

The GOP should be sued by the end of this month-end and then they will never admit it but I'm always down ballot for Trump wealth of knowledge in red deer hunting for a while now so that Texas Roadhouse and I think Joel.

I smell Danger Snax

What happened to the blue wave?


Talking point right on time. Didn’t Trump make a false claim yesterday about midterm results?
9 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

this guy gets it

 

 

From my understanding Orange County remained republican in 4 state senate votes in this election. Bad sign when your party members are splitting their ballot.  

I honestly believe the next conservative movement of significance will be a progressive Republican movement.  

Because it’s the only way they are ever going gain power again after Trumpism. 

Huh, it appears that suburban voters are disenchanted with the more strident portions of the R party. How exactly are they going to get more centrist primary voters when they have done everything possible to run them off?

21 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I honestly believe the next conservative movement of significance will be a progressive Republican movement.  

Because it’s the only way they are ever going gain power again after Trumpism. 

We'll see in 2024. 

In election news, it looks like Abrams has accepted defeat but isn’t conceding.

Ms. Abrams, while acknowledging Friday that she could not win, did not concede either.

“More than 200 years into Georgia’s democratic experiment, the state failed its voters,” Ms. Abrams said, her voice alternating among anguish, contempt, frustration and outrage as she argued that “eight years of systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence had its desired effect on the electoral process in Georgia.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/elections/georgia-governor-race-kemp-abrams.amp.html

I’ve heard that a Georgia law allows for an election to be overturned by a judge if certain conditions are met.

I know what you did last summer...

Still got the SC and Senate. 

Senate will flip in 2020. Democrats had to defend 24 seats versus 9 for the Republicans in the mid-terms. Two independents, who vote with Democrats mostly, also had to defend. Next time Republicans will do the majority of the defending of senate seats. It won't be pretty. 

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

And this is an easy way to attack Republicans in 2020.  

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

I love that picture now!

Edited by Voldemort86

19 hours ago, EuroHorn said:

What happened to the blue wave?

 

Wow

 

On 11/17/2018 at 12:43 AM, EuroHorn said:

What happened to the blue wave?

Wanna know why folks make fun of Trumkins for being dim and spouting Fox  News soundbites?

It turned the whole thing upside down . . . I knew who I was going to vote for before this. Now I don’t,” said a man named William, a white Republican and self-described “Trumpster” who voted for Hyde-Smith two weeks ago. He declined to provide his last name because he didn’t want to publicly disclose he was considering voting for a Democrat. “Mike Espy is a good guy. Nothing wrong with him.”

 

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/11/18/1813698/-GOP-s-Mississippi-Senate-candidate-is-in-real-trouble

NRSC just dropped 700k on this race. 

Comments are sometimes worth reading.

I live down here (it is a long story) and enjoy many aspects of southern MS. The politics is horrendous and not even slightly “conservative” in the real sense. I question whether the Trump appearances will help or hurt Cindy.

When initially chosen, the feel I got was that it was an unusually perceptive choice by Gov. Bryant, going for a woman who had not done all that much in state politics, she had been agriculture commissioner. She was no “centrist” in any real sense, but she was not the Trumpiest of candidates for the position available, notably other white men who were further “out there” than Cindy, who obviously is in way over her head. There is a guy down here, Chris McDaniel who was a state rep/ radio host who ran on the Republican side and he’s not a “Trump guy” because Trump isn’t Trump enough. IOW, there’s a “Trump is too moderate” portion of the vote here, maybe 20% of the Repubs. Fascinating. 

At the press conference where she got questions about the “public hanging” comment, Bryant literally stood in front of her to answer some, protecting his “woman” I guess. Really, though, he was likely following orders to keep her from saying something even dumber.

Her comment about “maybe making it a little harder on liberals to vote, which I think is a good idea” is classic “truth” escaping from someone not really understanding what can and cannot be said out loud. We all know that Voter ID and gerrymandering, poll lines, etc. are all part of the GOP platform, it’s just not supposed to be said out loud, and I thought that even were she to win, she could be really useful in exposing Republican “thinking” because she just clearly doesn’t have the tools to duck and dive as required by the Repub platform for the 1%. 

I am not optimistic. Some here recall very well Espy’s troubles with possible pay to play stuff (he was not convicted), so he’s not the perfect candidate, but he HAS run a positive campaign. I haven’t seen an anti-Cindy ad by him. Forcing the GOP to spend money here, forcing Trump to come down and open his mouth again, and extending the campaign news cycle into near December is all positive for team blue. And who knows? After all, there’s 2 weeks yet to go, and Cindy could say literally anything between now and then. 

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