Where a KFC bucket on your head is standard uniform attire...
I'll come in again...
Where a KFC bucket on your head is standard uniform attire...
I am not sure what they are picturing either, but there seems to be a lot of talk that sounds like they want to verify who voted and how since they seem to want to tie ballots back to if someone is 'real' or not.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 9:50 am How would that even work? Our ballots have no identifying numbers or anything on them and once they check you off on the poll books, that's the last time you are "connected" to your specific ballot. How could they link me to my ballot once they've handed it to me?
Which fundamentally cannot be allowed to happen.
How?Uninformed wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 5:13 pm In the UK if they want to they can tell who someone voted for.
Each voter has an electoral role number, the clerk who issues the ballot paper writes that number on the stub in the book of ballot papers, and each ballot paper has a number. The ballot papers are supposed to be stored confidentially in each “constituency” and later destroyed. The best known examples are from years ago when the Special Branch (a semi-secret squirrel police group) had their local “representative(s)” report all those who voted for the communist party (and others).sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 7:07 pmHow?Uninformed wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 5:13 pm In the UK if they want to they can tell who someone voted for.
That seims weird. Here (Oregon) once the envelope with the sig is separated from the ballot there is no way that the authorities can tell who voted for who. Of course Oregon is a vote by mail state (and it works great).Uninformed wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 5:13 pm In the UK if they want to they can tell who someone voted for.
Obviously not one of the red states, and aren’t you lucky?scirreeve wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:03 pm
2. Mrs. Reeve forgot to sign her ballot in an election. She got a letter about curing her ballot. Got a letter that asked her to sign some form so they could verify her sig. She could email, fax, mail, or deliver it. She did the email thingy and all was good. I do not live in a State that suppresses the vote.
I did the same with my mister's ballot. I called the county election office and they said the same thing.scirreeve wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:03 pmThat seims weird. Here (Oregon) once the envelope with the sig is separated from the ballot there is no way that the authorities can tell who voted for who. Of course Oregon is a vote by mail state (and it works great).Uninformed wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 5:13 pm In the UK if they want to they can tell who someone voted for.
Fun facts cuz I live in a place where voting is not a partisan thing
1. Once Mrs. Reeve returned my ballot (the sig on the envelope thing). She was appalled. Called the county election office and they told her no big deal. Told me to sign her envelope and that they had a protocol for wrongly signed envelopes from the same address. It worked - I checked it on line.
2. Mrs. Reeve forgot to sign her ballot in an election. She got a letter about curing her ballot. Got a letter that asked her to sign some form so they could verify her sig. She could email, fax, mail, or deliver it. She did the email thingy and all was good. I do not live in a State that suppresses the vote.
I’m with you 1000 % on this!orlylicious wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:40 pm Will take the other side of the bet that these audits end up being nothing, like we've seen before, the GOP screws up and doesn't win back either house in 2022, the disgraced loser doesn't run again, and demographics keep moving and Democrats win the White House again in 2024.
I'm so glad to see you say this. The constant Eeyore "we're doomed" stuff gets old after a while, especially since we've been hearing it non-stop since trump showed up. Democracy still works or they wouldn't have been thwarted at each turn so far. And I'm not willing to base my future on the thought that we're already lost so we might as well accept it and move on. I'm not a Pollyanna about it, but I haven't thrown in the towel either.orlylicious wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:40 pm Will take the other side of the bet that these audits end up being nothing, like we've seen before, the GOP screws up and doesn't win back either house in 2022, the disgraced loser doesn't run again, and demographics keep moving and Democrats win the White House again in 2024.
I think Guam is a bit further, although, from what I can tell, Guam and the CNMI are similar in a lot of ways. They both have mirror versions of the Internal Revenue Code.Atticus Finch wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 1:17 pm We will be farthest away from mainland United States but still be in United States territory.
Love this!!! Can you please keep telling us things like this a LOT???orlylicious wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:40 pm Will take the other side of the bet that these audits end up being nothing, like we've seen before, the GOP screws up and doesn't win back either house in 2022, the disgraced loser doesn't run again, and demographics keep moving and Democrats win the White House again in 2024.
orlylicious wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:40 pm Will take the other side of the bet that these audits end up being nothing, like we've seen before, the GOP screws up and doesn't win back either house in 2022, the disgraced loser doesn't run again, and demographics keep moving and Democrats win the White House again in 2024.
More: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics ... index.htmlThe 2022 Senate map looks very good for Democrats
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 12:39 PM ET, Fri January 8, 2021
(CNN)Democrats' stunning sweep of the two Georgia Senate runoffs earlier this week installed Chuck Schumer as the incoming Senate majority leader. The 2022 map of Senate races looks likely to keep him there. While Democrats' takeover of the Senate majority -- albeit with a 50-50 seat tie and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris breaking ties -- has been totally overshadowed by the storming of the US Capitol by violent pro-Trump protesters, it's hard to overstate the importance of the switch in control.
The last four years are proof. President Donald Trump -- with a massive assist from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- remade the federal judiciary, most notably installing a 6-3 conservative majority in the Supreme Court thanks to three appointments to the nation's highest court by Trump, each of which was confirmed by McConnell's Senate.
Which brings me back to the 2022 map -- and why Schumer, at least at the start of the new cycle, has reason for optimism about the party's prospects of holding the Senate majority for the entirety of President-elect Joe Biden's first term in office. Now that the Georgia races are over, we have a full picture of what the 2022 map will look like. Republicans will have to defend 20 of their seats while Democrats will have 14 seats of their own on the ballot -- after special election takeover wins by incoming Sens. Mark Kelly (Arizona) and Raphael Warnock (Georgia).
So, the raw numbers favor Democrats. But so, too, does a deeper dive into which actual states are holding Senate races in November 2022. (Yes, we are only a year away from an election year!)
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The general rule of thumb in politics is that open seats are easier to win than toppling an incumbent. Which should concern Republicans, given that their most vulnerable seats could all be open seats come November 2022.