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Election 2020

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by TheresTheDagger, May 13, 2020.

  1. AleksandarN

    AleksandarN Member

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    So lets get this straight people who voted in that voting station should not have counted? I think you in the wrong country then. Move to Russia
     
  2. AleksandarN

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    Defend it. Defend Trump's tweet. I would love to hear you defend Trump who wanted to cancel votes because a station was added in a dem strong hold.
     
  3. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Let's hope the election doesn't hang in the balance of one state's chads
     
  4. CCorn

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    The solution is web voting with an online portal to verify your choices. Boom transparency, boom Fck Florida
     
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  5. NewRoxFan

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    Lol....

     
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  6. Major

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    This is a terrible idea. Besides the fact that big chunks of Americans don't have easy internet access or aren't particularly internet-savvy (and thus vulnerable to phishing attacks and other such things), this also opens elections up to interference through sophisticated denial-of-service attacks and such. They have taken down commercial and federal government sites many times in the past - what are the odds that states can protect themselves given their struggle to even provide basic election security right now and even navigate non-technical voting logistics?

    Much as we might wish otherwise, the country is simply not capable of online voting at this time.
     
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  7. Invisible Fan

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    Coach Tommy Tubby for Alabama Senator?

    Is this too cynical for republicans or are they really a third world shitheap?
     
  8. NewRoxFan

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    (the q thread seemed way off track so)... the retrumplican party and q, match made in heaven...

    Republicans wrestle with conspiracy-theory advocate winning Senate primary
    After denying it in a statement, the candidate is now refuting her own campaign.
    https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...y/story?id=70829450&__twitter_impression=true
     
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  9. Amiga

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    It’s a beautiful ideal and absolutely a terrible idea at this time.

    we already have a not-in-person voting system that is well established. It’s call mail in ballot and that’s what we should be doing this nov 2020. Only unprepared gov or one that bet on chaos wouldn’t prepare for every person right to a mail on ballot vote this nov.
     
  10. NewRoxFan

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    While it would be too easy to roll eyes and say "heh, florida", yet another example of a trump led investigation of "voter fraud" that comes up blank...

    A Trump election conspiracy collapses
    https://www.politico.com/states/flo...a-trump-election-conspiracy-collapses-1285442
     
  11. Amiga

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    I think there is a federal law that States must let you know if your provisional ballot was accepted and counted since 2002.

    I don't think there is such a federal law for mail in ballot. But States do allow you to track. Ex: California, Texas

    Seems reasonable that everyone should be able to track their vote and even what they voted for, to confirm it was recorded correctly. A read-only process so that it cannot corrupt the result.

    Although messy, there are ways to verify the result. There are holes however. One of them is voting machine without any paper trail --> HR1 2019 bill required that all voting machine must have a paper trail.

    With that said, transparency is one issue, but it's not as big an issue as voter suppression. HR1 2019 again tried to tackle that. One party is for it, the other is against it.
     
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  12. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    It's not a surprise to see Republicans beginning to line up with a terrorist threat. They are abandoning the principals of this country in order to become an increasingly white nationalist party.
     
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    Jeff Sessions should be an object lesson for all Republicans of the corrupting power of Trump. How you will be punished for doing the right thing..
     
  14. B-Bob

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    QFT. also: how to keep shreds of integrity.
     
  15. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Trump is asking Republicans to lie, cheat, break the law or do whatever is necessary to serve him.

    The are obliging.
     
  16. NewRoxFan

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    the republican party continuing its history of voter suppression in order to hold power...

     
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    The good people at Lincoln Project turns their attention on the turtle...

     
  19. NewRoxFan

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    republicans attempting to suppress voting get shut down in Nevada...

     
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    Democrats risk backlash if they don’t condemn rioting:

    https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/7...WktEOL_QrZS5dahHAICONFAqUbi3OmmYHTg8u9aAbaKGA

    excerpt:

    I was surprised to see Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, fail to make even a pro forma exhortation against rioting in his heartfelt speech Friday when he called for police reforms and racial reconciliation. It probably wasn’t an accident: President Obama, his old boss, didn’t address the violence raging across Minneapolis in his statement, either. . . .

    I wondered, more broadly, whether there’s a larger tone-deafness in Democratic political circles these days—a failure to realize that Biden’s success is dependent on voters who don’t share their own progressive values. . . .

    But if leading Democrats are afraid of alienating their own base to the point they avoid speaking out against wanton violence, they risk courting a fierce political backlash when they’re back in power.


     

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