Just for context, I didn’t realize until today that the north of ID is in Pacific time while the south is in Mountain time. So you cross the Salmon River and have to change your clock. Then I realized that there are a number of states which have a time change running through them. That would be some confusing shit.
So…a vote counter drops a ballot on the floor and it blows under a table. The next morning they find it, and count it. During the period when it was under the table, did it change from a legitimate vote to an evil election-stealing DEI vote?
| In a dissent joined by the Court’s other three Trumphumping democracy foes, Samuel Alito contended that linear time doesn’t exist ... Listen: Sam Alito has come unstuck in time.
'even though the vote should have been a one-page 9-0 decision as soon as the case came to it'.
That presupposes the notion that this case should have even been ACCEPTED by the SCOTUS (let alone even making it that far in the lower courts) Like I said 10 years ago......"buckle up kids......gonna be a bumpy ride for the next, foreseeable, few decades"
There is no rational human being who can make a coherent argument that there is a legitimate difference between absentee voting for overseas/military citizens and mail-in ballots, especially for people who continually vote absentee because "Nanna is too old to go to the polls on Election Day".
Everyone should have to physically go and present their papers prior to dropping the ballot in the box on the day OR Everyone should have the opportunity to cast a vote via mail or at an early voting site.
We can have same day voting, or we can make up rules as we go for specific tiny minorities.
I think people get it in their head (or pretend to) that the voting day, particularly when the results are counted, is the game. Like, there's this basketball game at 7 PM until one side cries uncle, say 3 AM, and whoever happens to be ahead at 3 AM is the winner because that's "when the game ends" and having a second day is just wrong (unless we're behind and "things don't feel right).
Of course, it's really a basketball game played in secret, even the players don't know what happened, that ran from 6 AM to 7 PM plus a few continental and international plays, early day plays, etc, of which not a single second is unscrambled and watched until 7 PM. At which point this group watches a bunch of random nonconsecutive minutes and eventually announces the results and that group watches a completely different bunch of minutes and the sportscasters yammer a whole bunch of guesses until someone gives a score of these five nonconsecutive minutes and we pretend this is the game right here.
And I think this is partially the thing with a lot of "conservative" jurors. How it looks (in their eyes) is more important than what it is, so they'd rather have a definitive answer at the morning after than they would a correct one. To the point where they'd even accept the "wrong team" (in theory) as long as it looked right and gave us confidence.
"If ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day"
What the everloving fuck is this complete A Idiot babbling about? The electorate's 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 is still made, i.e. "occurs" on election day, the fact that you may not find out what 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 the electorate made until later doesn't alter the fact of when the 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 was made.
This is where we are in modern American political science. Simply reading the plain text of the Constitution is a radical act. We have to dig deep and a semblance of a check on this comes if we can at least get Congress to change hands this fall.
I am pretty sure I don't remember my poli sci professor giving any lectures on how being a true American means finding as many loopholes in our Constitution as we can.
There's no way to say this. My wife of seventeen years died on Friday after suffering a devastating heart attack. She hated all of you for diverting my attention. Carry on.
Can't upvote this but I offer condolences. This happened to Mrs. C's mom and I think she felt extra grief because she couldn't say goodbye. I wish you peace and many happy memories of your time together despite the pain of such a sudden loss.
The Republicans who want to micromanage our elections don't even know how mail works, because they are morons. But it's really just a ruse to suppress votes, because they are crooked morons.
Say a district in northern ID allows voting until 9:30 p.m. Are the votes cast after midnight DC time illegitimate?
Just for context, I didn’t realize until today that the north of ID is in Pacific time while the south is in Mountain time. So you cross the Salmon River and have to change your clock. Then I realized that there are a number of states which have a time change running through them. That would be some confusing shit.
So…a vote counter drops a ballot on the floor and it blows under a table. The next morning they find it, and count it. During the period when it was under the table, did it change from a legitimate vote to an evil election-stealing DEI vote?
| In a dissent joined by the Court’s other three Trumphumping democracy foes, Samuel Alito contended that linear time doesn’t exist ... Listen: Sam Alito has come unstuck in time.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love you for this one, Dok.
Montana Wildhack sez "Nope, no Sammy Pilgrimmmm for me."
'even though the vote should have been a one-page 9-0 decision as soon as the case came to it'.
That presupposes the notion that this case should have even been ACCEPTED by the SCOTUS (let alone even making it that far in the lower courts) Like I said 10 years ago......"buckle up kids......gonna be a bumpy ride for the next, foreseeable, few decades"
I wonder what Axl spied out there.
https://substack.com/@2cats2furious/note/c-285896660?r=2knok4&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘚𝘢𝘮 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.
WORST. TRALFAMADORE ZOO EXHIBIT. EVER.
There is no rational human being who can make a coherent argument that there is a legitimate difference between absentee voting for overseas/military citizens and mail-in ballots, especially for people who continually vote absentee because "Nanna is too old to go to the polls on Election Day".
Everyone should have to physically go and present their papers prior to dropping the ballot in the box on the day OR Everyone should have the opportunity to cast a vote via mail or at an early voting site.
We can have same day voting, or we can make up rules as we go for specific tiny minorities.
Oh yeah, but some excellent woman!
these are the same dipshits that want all paper ballots, and all ballots counted by hand
Los Angeles did that in their recent Mayoral election, and the Republicans screamed bloody murder because it took so long.
Easier to stop the count when they're winning, like they did in Florida in 2000.
Ta, Dok. Boney Carrot not doing her job according to the wingnuttosphere? I read the news today, oh, boy.
I think people get it in their head (or pretend to) that the voting day, particularly when the results are counted, is the game. Like, there's this basketball game at 7 PM until one side cries uncle, say 3 AM, and whoever happens to be ahead at 3 AM is the winner because that's "when the game ends" and having a second day is just wrong (unless we're behind and "things don't feel right).
Of course, it's really a basketball game played in secret, even the players don't know what happened, that ran from 6 AM to 7 PM plus a few continental and international plays, early day plays, etc, of which not a single second is unscrambled and watched until 7 PM. At which point this group watches a bunch of random nonconsecutive minutes and eventually announces the results and that group watches a completely different bunch of minutes and the sportscasters yammer a whole bunch of guesses until someone gives a score of these five nonconsecutive minutes and we pretend this is the game right here.
And I think this is partially the thing with a lot of "conservative" jurors. How it looks (in their eyes) is more important than what it is, so they'd rather have a definitive answer at the morning after than they would a correct one. To the point where they'd even accept the "wrong team" (in theory) as long as it looked right and gave us confidence.
"If ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day"
What the everloving fuck is this complete A Idiot babbling about? The electorate's 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 is still made, i.e. "occurs" on election day, the fact that you may not find out what 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 the electorate made until later doesn't alter the fact of when the 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 was made.
Fucking dum(b)ass.
I can haz SCOTUS seat nau?
This is where we are in modern American political science. Simply reading the plain text of the Constitution is a radical act. We have to dig deep and a semblance of a check on this comes if we can at least get Congress to change hands this fall.
I am pretty sure I don't remember my poli sci professor giving any lectures on how being a true American means finding as many loopholes in our Constitution as we can.
None of mine did either, but there we have it.
Trump's approval currently stands at 30%. I wonder what portion of that 30% is certifiable.
AOT, K.
There's no way to say this. My wife of seventeen years died on Friday after suffering a devastating heart attack. She hated all of you for diverting my attention. Carry on.
Can't upvote this but I offer condolences. This happened to Mrs. C's mom and I think she felt extra grief because she couldn't say goodbye. I wish you peace and many happy memories of your time together despite the pain of such a sudden loss.
My condolences. May her memory always be a blessing to you...
Thank you. I'm having a hard time dealing with it because it was so sudden.
So very, very sorry for your loss. May her memory always be a blessing.
I am sorry for your loss. May her memory be a blessing.
I’m so very sorry for your loss. May her memory always be a blessing.
Please accept my condolences...I am hoping for comfort and solace for you in this difficult time.
Oh my, that's devastating. I have nothing to say that can help at this moment..
Oh no. I don't know you, but that sounds horrible. So sorry.
We'll carry on. What about you?
The Republicans who want to micromanage our elections don't even know how mail works, because they are morons. But it's really just a ruse to suppress votes, because they are crooked morons.