"Unanswered questions". You mean like the ones that idiots on the Internet ask, and then you explain the facts to them, and then they still have unanswered questions?
I don't know if Jessica's answer is accurate, but I do know it was a lot. A whole lot. I think they had the "show car" for regular scenes, and then a succession of similar cars modified to look like the same car as the General Lee that they used for jumps. I vaguely remember reading an article on it during the run of the show where they talked about how much trouble it was to get their hands on suitable cars every week.
This reminds me of a job I had in my freshman year of college. I was a clerk/typist in the Psychology department, and one day my job was to collate by hand about 200 copies of a 75-page document. They set up long folding tables in the hallway with piles of pages, and I had to walk down and collate each copy. And it was so incredibly boring that of course I missed a page here and there. I referred to it as Epsilon Minus Semi Moron Work (from "Brave New World" - go read it if you haven't already). This is what always happens when people have lots of tedious, boring, repetitive work to do ... they make mistakes.
Why TF does Georgia have so many counties? California, largest state by population and 3rd largest by land area, has 58 counties, and frankly, a few of them are superfluous as well. So much duplication of "services", if you can call it that.
Yeah, we have 1.9 million registered voters in San Diego County. Our population (3.27 million) is more than 20 states. It's a pretty massive operation here to handle every election. I will probably work 18 hours on election day and none of that time will be tabulating anything by hand. (Well, maybe "how many of these forms do I need to take to the vote center." I'm a supplies/ballot driver.)
In the days before I-15, you could head north on 395 and be here in about 6 hours. Inyo County only has about 19 or 20K human inhabitants spread out over more than 10K square miles. Over half the county is mail-in only.
Same reason we have so many independent Baptist churches. People got into arguments and the counties divorced each other and split their property. My county, Clarke, had Oconee split off because they moved the county seat from Watkinsville to Athens. The people of Watkinsville split off and made Oconee County a separate county in a huff, leaving Clarke County the tiniest county in the state by land area, and one of the smallest east of the Mississippi. A full 20% of the land in the county is just university, it feels like.
I think the Constitution placed the execution of elections in the hands of the state. I' not sure there is much the Federal Courts can do except in regards to federal elections.
"the MAGA three passed another new rule to require a hand-count of what’s predicted to be about five to seven million ballots on election night"
The ensuing chaos is a feature not a bug. Every MAGAdroid, from the Fulvous Flatulence on down, thrives on chaos; like a little child afraid of the dark, they are scared by a sane, calm, quiet electorate.
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"Instead, they should have the right to decide what county’s election results they want to certify, and which ones they won’t."
This is the reality in the MAGAverse. The true believers are convinced that the rest of us are idjits and need their firm guidance to accept the world as they see it.
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"If the numbers recorded on the precinct poll pads, ballot marking devices [BMDs] and scanner recap forms do not reconcile with the hand count ballot totals"
I can't grok why anyone would object to this new and improved method to assure election integrity. It's a well know and proven fact that electronic balloting machines add or subtract votes that aren't what the officials want in terms of outcome.
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"with so many screwup opportunities"
Wrong! These are opportunities for the RINOs to correct the ballot count, when they lose, to what it *should* be.
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"the elections board also changed a rule back on August 6 that lets themselves take over from the local elections board, and certify the election for them"
All in the name of a more honest, less corrupt certification process. (See immediately above re opportunities.)
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"right-wing organization involved in challenging the legitimacy of American election systems. That organization, the Election Integrity Network"
Another ironically named RINO group like: the American Freedom Caucus, the Main Street Caucus, Moms for Liberty, America First, Alliance Defending Freedom....
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"a nonprofit network of rich Christian weirdos who want to take over America, because Jesus told them that they should be in charge of telling everybody what to do"
These very fine folk are not Christians in any sense of the word, they have intentionally perverted the teachings of the Christ to fit their ultimate goal: a "Christian" Theocracy (as the Founding Fathers intended) replete with a Sharia court system.
We need puppies. We need kittens. We need lots of pics of puppies AND kittens. Is there ANYONE who can stop this before it starts, or is Georgia a LOST CAUSE state?
One time when I was a wee little Royal Ugly Dude I saw an auto carrier trailer with six general Lees pulled over on the side of Malibu Canyon Road. That’s how many they needed for a single episode of the show
All this mishegoss because Fuckface von Clownstick is a sore loser. That’s it. If he had learned what the rest of us learn in kindergarten, play fair, shake hands, don’t be a fucking crybaby tooly douchebag when things don’t go your way, none of this would have happened. Jan 6 wouldn’t have happened.
Now, yes, there is the second piece of the puzzle. Namely that the Grievously Outrageous Pustules party have outsourced their consciences to zealously uphold racism, sexism, homophobia, antisemitism, xenophobia and general assholery in service to their liege lord so they don’t have to face the fact that the white patriarchy is dying out. But if Fuckface wasn’t so butthurt to begin with at the concept of Loser, You’re a Loser Donnie! they wouldn’t be able to coast as arguably successfully as they have been on his coattails. At the end of the day it all comes down to the utterly contemptible psyche of a very small and uniquely damaged man.
Does anyone else smell mens rea?
"Unanswered questions". You mean like the ones that idiots on the Internet ask, and then you explain the facts to them, and then they still have unanswered questions?
"The truth is out there." Lies, too.
Ta, Marcie. Let's hope this tops the stupidity index for this week.
I wonder how many "General Lee's" they broke doing those jumps. Because, you know, cars weren't designed to do stunts.
I don't know if Jessica's answer is accurate, but I do know it was a lot. A whole lot. I think they had the "show car" for regular scenes, and then a succession of similar cars modified to look like the same car as the General Lee that they used for jumps. I vaguely remember reading an article on it during the run of the show where they talked about how much trouble it was to get their hands on suitable cars every week.
About 300
IIRC they went through *all* of them -- the entire production run of that one particular model.
This reminds me of a job I had in my freshman year of college. I was a clerk/typist in the Psychology department, and one day my job was to collate by hand about 200 copies of a 75-page document. They set up long folding tables in the hallway with piles of pages, and I had to walk down and collate each copy. And it was so incredibly boring that of course I missed a page here and there. I referred to it as Epsilon Minus Semi Moron Work (from "Brave New World" - go read it if you haven't already). This is what always happens when people have lots of tedious, boring, repetitive work to do ... they make mistakes.
Holy Unnecessary Complexity, Batman! 🙄🤦🏼♂️
Why TF does Georgia have so many counties? California, largest state by population and 3rd largest by land area, has 58 counties, and frankly, a few of them are superfluous as well. So much duplication of "services", if you can call it that.
I work elections in a county larger than Delaware or Rhode Island.
My county in California is bigger than the six smallest states, and only 300 sq mi smaller than Massachusetts. Not many people, though.
Yeah, we have 1.9 million registered voters in San Diego County. Our population (3.27 million) is more than 20 states. It's a pretty massive operation here to handle every election. I will probably work 18 hours on election day and none of that time will be tabulating anything by hand. (Well, maybe "how many of these forms do I need to take to the vote center." I'm a supplies/ballot driver.)
In the days before I-15, you could head north on 395 and be here in about 6 hours. Inyo County only has about 19 or 20K human inhabitants spread out over more than 10K square miles. Over half the county is mail-in only.
Thanks for what you do.
Same reason we have so many independent Baptist churches. People got into arguments and the counties divorced each other and split their property. My county, Clarke, had Oconee split off because they moved the county seat from Watkinsville to Athens. The people of Watkinsville split off and made Oconee County a separate county in a huff, leaving Clarke County the tiniest county in the state by land area, and one of the smallest east of the Mississippi. A full 20% of the land in the county is just university, it feels like.
This is FUCKED UP AND ILLEGAL. The federal courts need to DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS.
I think the Constitution placed the execution of elections in the hands of the state. I' not sure there is much the Federal Courts can do except in regards to federal elections.
"the MAGA three passed another new rule to require a hand-count of what’s predicted to be about five to seven million ballots on election night"
The ensuing chaos is a feature not a bug. Every MAGAdroid, from the Fulvous Flatulence on down, thrives on chaos; like a little child afraid of the dark, they are scared by a sane, calm, quiet electorate.
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"Instead, they should have the right to decide what county’s election results they want to certify, and which ones they won’t."
This is the reality in the MAGAverse. The true believers are convinced that the rest of us are idjits and need their firm guidance to accept the world as they see it.
-----
"If the numbers recorded on the precinct poll pads, ballot marking devices [BMDs] and scanner recap forms do not reconcile with the hand count ballot totals"
I can't grok why anyone would object to this new and improved method to assure election integrity. It's a well know and proven fact that electronic balloting machines add or subtract votes that aren't what the officials want in terms of outcome.
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"with so many screwup opportunities"
Wrong! These are opportunities for the RINOs to correct the ballot count, when they lose, to what it *should* be.
-----
"the elections board also changed a rule back on August 6 that lets themselves take over from the local elections board, and certify the election for them"
All in the name of a more honest, less corrupt certification process. (See immediately above re opportunities.)
-----
"right-wing organization involved in challenging the legitimacy of American election systems. That organization, the Election Integrity Network"
Another ironically named RINO group like: the American Freedom Caucus, the Main Street Caucus, Moms for Liberty, America First, Alliance Defending Freedom....
-----
"a nonprofit network of rich Christian weirdos who want to take over America, because Jesus told them that they should be in charge of telling everybody what to do"
These very fine folk are not Christians in any sense of the word, they have intentionally perverted the teachings of the Christ to fit their ultimate goal: a "Christian" Theocracy (as the Founding Fathers intended) replete with a Sharia court system.
fnord
I'm way more worried about stuff like this than I am about VP Harris not getting enough votes.
We need puppies. We need kittens. We need lots of pics of puppies AND kittens. Is there ANYONE who can stop this before it starts, or is Georgia a LOST CAUSE state?
"she slimed away, unsalted"
Slow clap, dude. Chef's kiss. Mwaah!
One time when I was a wee little Royal Ugly Dude I saw an auto carrier trailer with six general Lees pulled over on the side of Malibu Canyon Road. That’s how many they needed for a single episode of the show
How is this legal? Where are the authorities who need to stop this or have these people arrested for trying to interfere with this election?
All this mishegoss because Fuckface von Clownstick is a sore loser. That’s it. If he had learned what the rest of us learn in kindergarten, play fair, shake hands, don’t be a fucking crybaby tooly douchebag when things don’t go your way, none of this would have happened. Jan 6 wouldn’t have happened.
Now, yes, there is the second piece of the puzzle. Namely that the Grievously Outrageous Pustules party have outsourced their consciences to zealously uphold racism, sexism, homophobia, antisemitism, xenophobia and general assholery in service to their liege lord so they don’t have to face the fact that the white patriarchy is dying out. But if Fuckface wasn’t so butthurt to begin with at the concept of Loser, You’re a Loser Donnie! they wouldn’t be able to coast as arguably successfully as they have been on his coattails. At the end of the day it all comes down to the utterly contemptible psyche of a very small and uniquely damaged man.
This is the kind of fuckery I'm not sure we can defeat. This is why I still fear the shitgibbon will get a second term.
It won't work. These people will be defeated by their own incompetence.
Also, Georgia won't matter in the end.
Your word to Dog's ears on the latter.