The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous
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The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous
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Re: The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous
#2I'm not particularly bothered that it might take another day or two for all the votes to be counted. I'd much rather have the devil I know than a bunch of automation and technology that might have bigger issues. Since it's not nationally controlled, and each US state (and county) can do what it wants, a big push to use tech is almost sure to backfire. And backfire in ways that aren't immediately obvious.
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#3Oregon has a great voting system. Works very well - supposedly the easiest in the country. Everything is by mail. Fraud rates are extremely low.
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#4The US is really 1500+ independent elections.
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#5Oregon has a great voting system. Works very well - supposedly the easiest in the country. Everything is by mail. Fraud rates are extremely low.
Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Utah all have 100% mail voting. I’ve lived in Colorado and Washington, and had a very easy time voting in both.
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#6It's childish and destructively hostile to paint a prediction of the outcome of an election giving high odds to the result that turns out wrong as some kind of catastrophic failure or humiliation. It boggles my mind how many apparently otherwise smart people commit this obvious fallacy out loud.
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#7I normally like Glenn's writing but this is just FUD. Historically it has always taken days to count up all the votes due to the heterogeneity of the ballot systems used by the State's. Not to mention the actual electors in the College don't even vote until December - and aren't always faithful to the popular vote.
People are acting like this is the end of the world or some horrible crisis that we don't know the outcome instantly. Patience goes a long way.
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#8I normally like Glenn's writing but this is just FUD. Historically it has always taken days to count up all the votes due to the heterogeneity of the ballot systems used by the State's. Not to mention the actual electors in the College don't even vote until December - and aren't always faithful to the popular vote. People are acting like this is the end of the world or some horrible crisis that we don't know the outc…
A lot of his writing is FUD lately.
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#9I've lost so much respect for Greenwald over the last few months.
Him joining the circus of self-interested assholes sowing unnecessary doubt in our democracy is just one more nail.
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#10I think we're forgetting the real reason: Republicans are aggressively fighting in courts to make counting votes harder, and to stop counting votes after a certain time. If both parties worked towards the common good instead of taking a "by any means necessary" approach, we'd have such a better country.