On days like this I'm glad I live in Oregon. Honestly it's the only sane and responsible way to vote.
Forgive my ignorance, but how do you vote in Oregon?
Oregon and Washington are both vote by mail states, so no polling places on the day.
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#32A 100% increase in searches for "voter intimidation" in my city (Seattle) is interesting. I'd love additional context on who is searching for that (i.e. is it the intimidators or the fearful?) Nonetheless, this seems like the beginning of an interesting tool. What would it take to do some sort of fuzzy matching on related searches, like broken voting machines for voting machine problems? I suppose you could wait for…
"Rural Right Wing Nuts Challenging Voter Credentials" , "Urban Left Wing Maniacs Handing out Booze for Votes" and "Voting Machines Problems" are staple news stories on Election Day in America.
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#33A 100% increase in searches for "voter intimidation" in my city (Seattle) is interesting. I'd love additional context on who is searching for that (i.e. is it the intimidators or the fearful?) Nonetheless, this seems like the beginning of an interesting tool. What would it take to do some sort of fuzzy matching on related searches, like broken voting machines for voting machine problems? I suppose you could wait for…
>is it the intimidators or the fearful? Just regular people scared by media propaganda. That would be my guess. Exactly like the other items in the list. 'Long lines' doesn't mean people forming long lines are searching for it.
Come on, Trump very deliberately made voter fraud, of which voter intimidation is a big component, a major campaign issue.
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#34How is measured intimidation?
by searching "voter intimidation"
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forgive my ignorance, but how do you vote in Oregon?
You don't get the option to vote in person. We don't even have voter booths. Instead, the state mails you a voter guide and a ballot that you fill out in the convenience of your own home. This allows you to review the candidates and new proposed bills line by line. Once filled out you simply drop it off at one of the hundreds of drop-off locations and you're done (or mail it in if you have time). This can all be done…
And what if an intimidating person in your household has strong opinions about how you should mark that ballot?
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#36What's the visualisation library they're using here? Looks great (I'm guessing D3, but it's hard to break through the webpack file to figure it out).
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#37It's pretty but what is this really telling us? There's a 126% increase in searchers for "Voter intimidation" in Hoback, Wyoming. OK, so does that mean that someone's being intimidated? Planning to intimidate? Curious about the news? Does a "126% increase" mean there were 7 searches today instead of just 4?
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#38I like how Alaska is so chill.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't get the option to vote in person. We don't even have voter booths. Instead, the state mails you a voter guide and a ballot that you fill out in the convenience of your own home. This allows you to review the candidates and new proposed bills line by line. Once filled out you simply drop it off at one of the hundreds of drop-off locations and you're done (or mail it in if you have time). This can all be done…
And what if an intimidating person in your household has strong opinions about how you should mark that ballot?
If you can't find a single personal space to fill out a ballot then you have bigger problems.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't get the option to vote in person. We don't even have voter booths. Instead, the state mails you a voter guide and a ballot that you fill out in the convenience of your own home. This allows you to review the candidates and new proposed bills line by line. Once filled out you simply drop it off at one of the hundreds of drop-off locations and you're done (or mail it in if you have time). This can all be done…
And what if an intimidating person in your household has strong opinions about how you should mark that ballot?
There is always going to be some potential for that. "Take a picture of how you voted or I'll beat you" would work fine even with polling places, although it'd be a little trickier.
The system saves a ton of money and time, and we have record numbers of voters in Oregon this year.