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Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

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Post by apothegm »

theshrike79 wrote: post #90
apothegm wrote: post #44

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Misinformation, low voter turnout, and an electoral system that massively over-represents people living in areas of low population density and underrepresents those living in areas of high population density. That’s ignoring any possibility of interference with insecure voting or tallying computers.

> low voter turnout Why voting day isn't a federal holiday is baffling to me. Along with all the weird-ass rules about "registering to vote" and people having to queue for hours in the heat and nobody is allowed to even give them water. I usually vote a few weeks in advance while grocery shopping, there's a booth set up at the supermarket. I can just walk in with my ID, vote and the vote is sealed in a box until the…

In the US, this is a partisan issue. The left benefits from higher turnout and the right gets less traction. States with Republican leadership and vaguely competitive elections are doing their best to make it harder to vote.

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Post by apothegm »

mullingitover wrote: post #53
Buttons840 wrote: post #52

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We need paper ballots because people can understand them. Election conspiracy theories are becoming a problem. Having a counting process that people can understand and trust is a feature.

We already use paper ballots[1]. You can't use reason to get people out of a mindset they didn't use reason to get into. [1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/some...

Paper ballots that we almost never bother manually checking against the insecure digital tallies unless there’s a very close race or explicit challenge to the count.

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Post by estearum »

apothegm wrote: post #92
mullingitover wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We already use paper ballots[1]. You can't use reason to get people out of a mindset they didn't use reason to get into. [1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/some...

Paper ballots that we almost never bother manually checking against the insecure digital tallies unless there’s a very close race or explicit challenge to the count.

This is just literally not true.

Nearly every state routinely does statistical audits of voting machines compared with paper records.

People hate to hear this but: statistics work. You can randomly sample a portion (say, 2% to 5%) of ballots and have effective certainty about how much fraud or error there is in your voting system.

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Post by 0xy »

selectodude wrote: post #79
0xy wrote: post #62

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This is completely incorrect. FEMA has ceased public assistance for ongoing and historical disasters.

You should let FEMA and the state of Hawaii know then. They must be really fucking confused. Thanks 0xy for bringing the knowledge. https://www.khon2.com/kona-low/governor-green-kona-low/amp/

Did you read the post you replied to? I very clearly stated ongoing and historical disasters. Meaning disasters that started before the DHS shutdown and were still ongoing, not new disasters.

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Post by paulddraper »

Schmerika wrote: post #46
paulddraper wrote: post #40

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How did they get elected?

Democrats funded, armed and protected a live-streamed genocide so horrific that roughly a third of their own hard-core base (Biden 2020 voters) couldn't bring themselves to vote for Harris, even in a close race against Trump [0]. There are other reasons Dems lost, also important. Still, genocide remains the blazing neon-red 12-ton elephant in the room. And there seems to be absolutely no sign of owning that fact, whi…

> roughly a third of their own hard-core base (Biden 2020 voters) couldn't bring themselves to vote for Harris,

No, roughly a third of Biden voters who voted for someone other than Harris cited the Gaza conflict.

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Post by cosmicgadget »

0xy wrote: post #95
cosmicgadget wrote: post #67

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Congress is allowed to pass more than one bill. Hope this helps.

You're right, please link the Democrat proposed FEMA funding bill.

They don't need to propose all clean funding bills simultaneously.

Hope this helps.

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Post by muwtyhg »

paulddraper wrote: post #78
apothegm wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Misinformation, low voter turnout, and an electoral system that massively over-represents people living in areas of low population density and underrepresents those living in areas of high population density. That’s ignoring any possibility of interference with insecure voting or tallying computers.

> an electoral system that massively over-represents people living in areas of low population density and underrepresents those living in areas of high population density Trump won the electoral college and popular vote.

But he is shielded by the Senate, which vastly favors low population density areas/states.
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