On Friday, while the country was worked up in a frenzy over Republican tax fuckery, a cybersecurity firm announced that it had discovered a two databases containing a total of 19 million California voter records had been breached. Hackers had deleted the data, installing a note in its place that simply read, "your database is downloaded and backed up on our secure servers," with a ransom note for .2 bitcoin (at this moment, that's around $3,500).
No. The precinct has a list of names. You show your state (not federal) driver's license. They cross you off the list and assign your name/address a ballot number which is linked to your ballot.It is imperfect. About 10--14 years ago a worker had let someone else have my wife's ballot, so they had to give her a provisional ballot and clean the mess later.
Hey, this important to me. My 28 yr old son is earning an MS in EE. We joke about Canada (I am one quarter Canadian) but this sounds like a real thing.
When I visit California, I have been accosted by petition signers. The last one was campaigning to cut retirement benefits for San Diego city employees. I told them I couldn't sign--I live in Texas--and they tried to get me to sign anyway. Crazy, everything you can get on a ballot. Taking people's retirement benefits away, sheesh. How low can you go.
It's pretty much a right wing tactic, right down there in the gutter with recall elections. Whenever I hear them telling lies to signers, though, I interrupt and get quite in their faces.
We use paper ballots in Australia, but without the chad problem. You get a list of candidates, and number them from 1 to whatever. The major parties will even supply you with a crib sheet if you want to follow one party's recommendation.
Oh, and anybody can have a postal ballot just by asking, and elections are on Saturdays.
“We don’t know who does” might just mean, “I am a willfully ignorant shitheel with no interest in the day to day workings of the office I have been put in charge of.” They night farm it out to some private envelope stuffer, and he neither knows nor cares which one. This, of course, is a best case scenario. Christ.
No. The precinct has a list of names. You show your state (not federal) driver's license. They cross you off the list and assign your name/address a ballot number which is linked to your ballot.It is imperfect. About 10--14 years ago a worker had let someone else have my wife's ballot, so they had to give her a provisional ballot and clean the mess later.
These work in Georgia because we have a lot of trees that do look like that. But one size does not fit all.
Welcome to the brave new world!
Hey, this important to me. My 28 yr old son is earning an MS in EE. We joke about Canada (I am one quarter Canadian) but this sounds like a real thing.
Not my senator, but I agree. The Dems can introduce all the best legislation... but until we vote them into the majority, it is worthless.
So we want him to endorse AOT,K!
We have that in California. I vote by mail, and the one time I didn’t it was paper ballots.
Cellphonicus artificialis, a new invasive species that is rapidly spreading throughout the world. Beware.
When I visit California, I have been accosted by petition signers. The last one was campaigning to cut retirement benefits for San Diego city employees. I told them I couldn't sign--I live in Texas--and they tried to get me to sign anyway. Crazy, everything you can get on a ballot. Taking people's retirement benefits away, sheesh. How low can you go.
Please tell me the official response involved the words "redundant, offsite backups"
It's pretty much a right wing tactic, right down there in the gutter with recall elections. Whenever I hear them telling lies to signers, though, I interrupt and get quite in their faces.
The rich, white suburbanites will revolt. NIMBY is strong in that crowd.
We use paper ballots in Australia, but without the chad problem. You get a list of candidates, and number them from 1 to whatever. The major parties will even supply you with a crib sheet if you want to follow one party's recommendation.
Oh, and anybody can have a postal ballot just by asking, and elections are on Saturdays.
http://www.aec.gov.au/Votin...
I think we’re a couple of frames later in that toon at this point.
“We don’t know who does” might just mean, “I am a willfully ignorant shitheel with no interest in the day to day workings of the office I have been put in charge of.” They night farm it out to some private envelope stuffer, and he neither knows nor cares which one. This, of course, is a best case scenario. Christ.
Our paper ballots look like this:
http://www.aec.gov.au/Votin...