They really wanted people to register with that domain...
"Geaux" is regional slang for "Go". See the second paragraph under "Modern Usage": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Suffix_-eaux
It's just a redirect anyways.
Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day
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Re: Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
You raise an interesting point: How would you differentiate revolution against a fascist government from terrorism?
mlonkibjuyhv has it exactly right, I think. At their outset, revolutions and [domestic] terrorism are usually indistinguishable. The American Revolution was certainly viewed as terrorism by the Crown, whether they had that word for it or not. History is written by the victors, and to a certain extent the worthiness of your cause is determined decades or centuries later by whether or not you were successful.
That makes sense. In that case, then, is saying something 'is domestic terrorism' the right test of whether it's the right thing to do? It sounds to me like if you used that gauge you'd never overthrow a fascist government.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you even begin the comparison? Seems like it would quickly devolve into subjective shitshow when deciding what gets included in each count.
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism... It's already been researched. 50 murders vs zero in 2018, and the other years and reports have similar results.
This is the same ADL that got this [0] emote banned from Call of Duty because “it‘s a symbol for white power”. Very unbiased source for sure.
[0]: https://images.mein-mmo.de/medien/2020/07/cod-modern-warfare...
Re: Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are building a strawman, the observation from OP in no way condones any violent attitude. It is a historical fact that authoritarianism in general (monarchies, despots and so on) has only been brought down through violence, the comment you are replying does not advocate or imply that, you are the one reading that. Malice is in the eye of the beholder.
I'm not building a strawman (at least not intentionally!), and I don't mean to imply malice. Believing in violent overthrow of a tyrannical government is a perfectly logical belief, albeit one that will get you in trouble with said government. For most people, there is a point at which they would take up arms against their own government. That in and of itself isn't a bad thing. Is there any other way to take the com…
So I did create a strawman, I'm sorry for that.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please put me in my place if I'm wrong here, but isn't it typically the Democrats who have the most to gain with more people voting (e.g. young people more likely to be liberal but less likely to vote)?
I believe the COUNTRY has the most to gain if more people are voting, whatever that party was.
I agree but what I'm saying is the incentive for being bi-partisan is less so.
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#66As an Australian who lives in the US, the vast chasm between how elections work in the two countries still boggles my mind. First, the US needs mandatory voting. This is what Australia has. The argument against this has always been about uninformed people voting and "fraud". I used to be sympathetic to this argument until I saw the massive scale of voter suppression that occurs in the US. Mandatory voting immediately…
In general this shows a lack of understanding of the US system of government common to folks not from here (and honestly to at least half the people who were born here). Broad national-level statements like "election supervisors are an elected position" are almost always wrong for huge swaths of the country. Not a single election judge, election helper, or poll watcher (three distinct positions with distinct roles) i…
> Broad national-level statements like "election supervisors are an elected position" are almost always wrong for huge swaths of the country
While positions like a "County Supervisor of Elections" or a state supervisor might vary across the country. Some are directly elected, others are appointed but affirmed (as judges are in some jurisdictions) and others might be strictly appointed, the process is still political because redistricting is political. There's still a heavy political factor in US elections that doesn't seem to be the case anywhere else (that I've lived anyway).
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
And the other 60% is not doing basically the same? > 40% always demonizes the 60% as sub-human violent scum One sentence later... > 40% has violent fantasies of a Civil War do-over
It's probably not true that all Trump supporters want a civil war, but to me it seems true that most/all of Trump's and the enabling Republicans actions are leading their country to either civil war or Putin-style autocracy. So why anyone would still be a supporter is beyond me. I'm a European who has been watching the last four years first in disbelief, then in optimism, then in pessimism and now in horror.
> most/all of Trump's and the enabling Republicans actions are leading their country to either civil war
What exactly is the contribution of the Trump supporters to the development of the looming civil war? Provoking the opposition to commit violent acts?
Re: Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably not true that all Trump supporters want a civil war, but to me it seems true that most/all of Trump's and the enabling Republicans actions are leading their country to either civil war or Putin-style autocracy. So why anyone would still be a supporter is beyond me. I'm a European who has been watching the last four years first in disbelief, then in optimism, then in pessimism and now in horror.
> most/all of Trump's and the enabling Republicans actions are leading their country to either civil war What exactly is the contribution of the Trump supporters to the development of the looming civil war? Provoking the opposition to commit violent acts?
I am talking about Republicans as in the party officials, not regular people.
They could have investigated in good faith and taken action against Russian meddling. They could have blocked appointments of obvious partisan hacks like Barr and Kavanaugh. They could have cared about Trump not using the US foreign service and policy to line his own pockets. They could have called out and condemned Trump's pandering to the racists in his base. The bar was not high but they have completely failed it.
When Trump took office, I genuinly believed Congress and the Republican party would keep him in check. Unfortunately the rot was too deep.
From what I gather of the current riots, everyone has failed in containing the spread and damage. But still there, Trump insists on pouring gasoline on a fire, by visiting the sites knowingly provoking more unrest. A statesman would address the nation with grace, send someone else to sensitive sites, but he thrives on the chaos.
Re: Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day
#69Full disclosure, I haven't worked on this system in many years, but I did work on it.
This is a bit of a red herring or just bad journalism.
The article (which has been updated but does not list that it was) the URL they pointed to, much like the original tweet that the article is based off of did not point to the geauxvote.com site, but to a static maintenance URL. (https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Maintenance?areaName=Portal) which would lead people to believe it was down for much longer than it was, in fact the tweets this is based off of still would lead you to believe that.
In truth the site was down from 8pm to midnight on Tuesday, the site was operating normally for most of voter registration day.
Its not mysterious, its schedule maintenance, the system gets an influx of records from several state agencies to determine registration status, including the OMV for drivers records, DPS for prison records, etc.. All those records have to be processed, then pushed into the system. This isn't done on the weekends as the state doesn't push the information on the weekend, the records are pushed through out Monday, there is a small window for validation, and corrections, and the whole system is updated on Tuesday.
I mean I'm not saying that voter suppression isn't going on, I'm saying this as a method makes no sense.
If they wanted to actually suppress the vote, they could have just dropped the submissions, and before people talk about the improbability of that, the system is solely owned by the secretary of state, it was written for them by a 3rd party contract paid by them, and all the data is either in their physical building or on amazon aws that they control. There is no 3rd party audit controls to prevent tampering.
So if they wanted those registrations to go unregistered they don't need to put up a maintenance sign, where some twitter detective could foil figure it out. they could just not record them, or erase them, with no one being the wiser.
Re: Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day
#70> The explanation given is that the portal needs to undergo "scheduled maintenance” that is “required.” > National Voter Registration Day is a movement to encourage people to register to vote on the fourth Tuesday of September during election years. There's no way this was an honest mistake. Why schedule maintenance on the exact day you expect a lot of voters to want to use the site?
The maintenance happens every Tuesday