Looks like a pretty crimey bunch, frankly Thank God Donald Trump is going to be investigating all the illegal voting that made him lose the popular vote in places with lots of the wrong kinds of Americans, because it turns out there's a hell of a lot of potential frauders out there! You see, a whole bunch of the people Mad President Snapcase thinks are probably illegal voters are in his family and his administration.
Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which sent money to the states to be distributed to the counties to use where they had a need. The Secretary of State in my state used it to make an informational video on voting, featuring himself explaining everything, while he was running for Governor. Nothing like taxpayer-funded campaign commercials.
Ah, but see, here's the rub: in the US, these measures are in place as *obstacles* to voting, specifically voting by minorities. See, there is no kind of universal photo ID here that's easily and automatically issued. The closest you get is a driver's license, and for that you have to take a whole day off to go to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles (something working-class people can't afford to do, especially if they don't actually drive) and which often (again, deliberately) requires a bunch of *other* documentation that poor, working-class, rural, and minority people often don't have. If photo IDs were easily obtainable by anybody, I'd have no objection to requiring them to vote. But that's not why these requirements are in place: they're here specifically to drive minorities away from voting, ensuring that Republicans stay in power. I'll give you a pass for asking a question that is almost always used to circumvent discussion of the issue at hand because you aren't in the US, but next time google "US photo ID voting" and read all the stories about how these measures are put in place specifically to suppress votes by the Wrong Kind of People (ie, minorities). Protip: if something about American society seems weird and irrational, the explanation is almost always "because America is racist as fuck."
Yeah, I once couldn't even GET my report from one of the reporting agencies because one of the questions they used to make sure it was really me DIDN'T have a correct answer for me. "Which one of these addresses have you lived?" I chose none of the above, and they were like, "WRONG!" It was maddening.
When a country has been a wealthy democracy for over 2 centuries, and still hasn't found a way to make voter registration both simple and foolproof, the issue clearly isn't the lack of solutions.
The first time I registered to vote (Demonkratic) a few months later I got a letter from the RNC...I mentioned the letter to a friend who told me that they probably sent it to me because if it was returned to them (return to sender) then they would know someone was trying to register Demonkratic in my name.I mailed the letter back with a few of my thoughts about the RNC.
Which I always think is dumb bullshit, you are both. A non-democratic republic is something where "we the people" do not participate in the process, eg the italian city-states of the middle ages. I'm hard put to imagine what a non-republican democracy looks like. Smart talking points in the hands of the uneducated have a tendency to backfire.
Heck, yes! No paper trail because of using those dumb Diebolds to vote? I guess we'll have to throw that precinct out of the vote total.Too bad they waited until now to do this, it could make counting up the votes and finding that the people installed were not actually elected SO much more complicated to deal with.
My deceased father was chosen to be on jury duty THREE times before they did whatever they did to not choose him any more. If he has to have post-mortem jury duty, I think he should have been able to vote as well.
Edit: This was in Portland, OR, btw. Not exactly a podunk little village... I really wanted to take his ashes in front of the judge to see if he'd get on the jury, but my SO talking me out of it.
Sometimes he's no fun....
PS - Love you, Dad. He would have thought this was a GREAT idea!
Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which sent money to the states to be distributed to the counties to use where they had a need. The Secretary of State in my state used it to make an informational video on voting, featuring himself explaining everything, while he was running for Governor. Nothing like taxpayer-funded campaign commercials.
They had me owning a home in California, and I've never even been in the state.
And you'll never see them again.
Ah, but see, here's the rub: in the US, these measures are in place as *obstacles* to voting, specifically voting by minorities. See, there is no kind of universal photo ID here that's easily and automatically issued. The closest you get is a driver's license, and for that you have to take a whole day off to go to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles (something working-class people can't afford to do, especially if they don't actually drive) and which often (again, deliberately) requires a bunch of *other* documentation that poor, working-class, rural, and minority people often don't have. If photo IDs were easily obtainable by anybody, I'd have no objection to requiring them to vote. But that's not why these requirements are in place: they're here specifically to drive minorities away from voting, ensuring that Republicans stay in power. I'll give you a pass for asking a question that is almost always used to circumvent discussion of the issue at hand because you aren't in the US, but next time google "US photo ID voting" and read all the stories about how these measures are put in place specifically to suppress votes by the Wrong Kind of People (ie, minorities). Protip: if something about American society seems weird and irrational, the explanation is almost always "because America is racist as fuck."
Yeah, I once couldn't even GET my report from one of the reporting agencies because one of the questions they used to make sure it was really me DIDN'T have a correct answer for me. "Which one of these addresses have you lived?" I chose none of the above, and they were like, "WRONG!" It was maddening.
Hello Forest Gump Americans…
We are from your new leaders! We are not voter fraud.
We are FSB (ФСБ).
Is a state security organisation in Russia. Is the organisation that came after the KGB.
We are busy. Watching you, videotaping you, phone tapping you, hacking into e-mails you, many things you.
Have a great day!https://media0.giphy.com/me...
I'll drink my one daily drink and feel good about his hangover.https://media4.giphy.com/me...
Aahh...now that's a wall of a different color.
I've been wondering about that myself lately. He's TOO loony. And the side business is too nicely calculated to appeal to his loony audience.
When a country has been a wealthy democracy for over 2 centuries, and still hasn't found a way to make voter registration both simple and foolproof, the issue clearly isn't the lack of solutions.
Everything. Why?
The first time I registered to vote (Demonkratic) a few months later I got a letter from the RNC...I mentioned the letter to a friend who told me that they probably sent it to me because if it was returned to them (return to sender) then they would know someone was trying to register Demonkratic in my name.I mailed the letter back with a few of my thoughts about the RNC.
If I were a right-winger I would chime in with...But we aren't a democracy - we're a REPUBLIC !!!!
Which I always think is dumb bullshit, you are both. A non-democratic republic is something where "we the people" do not participate in the process, eg the italian city-states of the middle ages. I'm hard put to imagine what a non-republican democracy looks like. Smart talking points in the hands of the uneducated have a tendency to backfire.
Heck, yes! No paper trail because of using those dumb Diebolds to vote? I guess we'll have to throw that precinct out of the vote total.Too bad they waited until now to do this, it could make counting up the votes and finding that the people installed were not actually elected SO much more complicated to deal with.
My deceased father was chosen to be on jury duty THREE times before they did whatever they did to not choose him any more. If he has to have post-mortem jury duty, I think he should have been able to vote as well.
Edit: This was in Portland, OR, btw. Not exactly a podunk little village... I really wanted to take his ashes in front of the judge to see if he'd get on the jury, but my SO talking me out of it.
Sometimes he's no fun....
PS - Love you, Dad. He would have thought this was a GREAT idea!