Most voting equipment is decades old. It's very expensive and rarely used. Not to mention the training involved for mostly elderly volunteers. The more complicated you make the voting machines, the more tax dollars are needed to buy/maintain and the less reliable they will be for the workers volunteering to run them. I've been involved with voting technology since the mid 1990's and as a professional I would LOVE to go back to the old manual pull-lever machines whose results are then carried by hand to central state locations for tallying. The media (and the public by extension) simply won't allow it though because they must have immediate results.
"The voting management systems are the machines that actually count the votes!"
Not on the ES&S systems being described. It's not your fault for not knowing that since they conveniently left those details out. The point is to reinforce the myth that the elections are rigged against you when you lose.
Basic gov't-issued photo ID is free at every state DMV that I know of. How can anyone function in life without an ID anyway? It's a myth that there's a large population of legal citizens that don't have an ID.
The story is very misleading, and I suspect that is on purpose.
I've spent about two decades working on election technology and voter registration data and could write volumes about it. None of that matters though because this is just another propaganda piece meant to reinforce false beliefs of a certain segment.
"No whats racist is that they seem to only remove "dead" people that are black, with no notification, 6 months before the election, and then oops turns out those people were still alive but it's too late for you to re-register because election day is today."
Except that never happens, it's just agit-prop for people who won't bother to check it out. Voter roles are culled based on specific criteria, usually based on voter inactivity. There are exactly zero verifiable instances of just black people being removed from the voter roles. Those stories are aimed at very stupid people with confirmation bias.
Also, provisional ballots exist for folks who show up to vote and discover their names aren't on the list (for whatever reason). They are given provisional ballots to use and then their eligibility is determined after the fact.
What's really racist is the idea that minorities are just incapable of getting an ID.
It's plausible that an admin or tech installed it for convenience at certain trouble customers and current execs just weren't aware. It doesn't mean they lied. This was 15-20 years ago. Pretty common practice.
"And they were churning out updates and changes every year."
That's exactly what I said. Major manufacturers stick with one design for a model year. It's easy to go to AutoZone and ask for Part X for a 2015 Impala and not have any confusion. The same can't be said for a Model 3. How are the different revisions delineated? As far as I know the VIN's aren't even sequential.
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. A friend had his Model 3 delivered a month ago and its fit and finish is worse than any car I've seen from a major manufacturer since the early 1980's..
Nonsense. Every day there are both positive and negative articles about Tesla and Musk on Jalopnik. The Musk cult is so over the top Jalopnik even had to address the issue a few weeks ago.
"this applies to every car made. go to get parts from a store, and they ask if it was before this date, or after that date, and i'm not talking about model years, i'm talking withing the same model year?"
Say what? I've never experienced that and would be shocked that any modern production car has that issue. Supercars maybe, but not mass-produced daily drivers like the Model 3 wants to be.
This is probably one of the reasons a Tesla can only be serviced by one of their sparse service centers and not the average mechanic (another drawback to owning one).
The Big 3 have spent $billions and hundreds of thousands if not millions of man-hours over the past century refining their processes to maximize efficiency and quality. It's ludicrous to suggest that somehow they missed the virtues of erecting an open tent and near-sweatshop working conditions for their assembly lines.
The only similarity between Tesla and Amazon is that both are headed by egomaniacal billionaires. The companies have nothing more in common besides that and its quite telling how the Tesla cult has to go that deep to find a positive analogue.
You've inadvertently illustrated one of the problems with the Model 3. How many different revisions of this thing are there and how much more difficult does that make them to repair? What differentiates Rev A, Rev B, etc? That's going to make long-term maintenance, repair and restoration a nightmare. That's why every other car manufacturer settles on a design and sticks with it for a full model year before releasing a new revision.
It makes no sense to plan for something that *might* happen 50-100 years for now when we don't even fully understand what that something is, not to mention all of the other unforseen things that *will* happen during that time.
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Voting equipment is already required to be certified by the states the buy/use them.
Most voting equipment is decades old. It's very expensive and rarely used. Not to mention the training involved for mostly elderly volunteers. The more complicated you make the voting machines, the more tax dollars are needed to buy/maintain and the less reliable they will be for the workers volunteering to run them. I've been involved with voting technology since the mid 1990's and as a professional I would LOVE to go back to the old manual pull-lever machines whose results are then carried by hand to central state locations for tallying. The media (and the public by extension) simply won't allow it though because they must have immediate results.
What law was broken?
You are absolutely correct. Blame the media for that - they demand instant results.
No, sadly its this kind of misinformation meant to reinforce a false belief in election-rigging that's become common practice.
"The voting management systems are the machines that actually count the votes!"
Not on the ES&S systems being described. It's not your fault for not knowing that since they conveniently left those details out. The point is to reinforce the myth that the elections are rigged against you when you lose.
California offers a fee waiver now for basic ID.
Basic gov't-issued photo ID is free at every state DMV that I know of. How can anyone function in life without an ID anyway? It's a myth that there's a large population of legal citizens that don't have an ID.
The story is very misleading, and I suspect that is on purpose.
I've spent about two decades working on election technology and voter registration data and could write volumes about it. None of that matters though because this is just another propaganda piece meant to reinforce false beliefs of a certain segment.
"No whats racist is that they seem to only remove "dead" people that are black, with no notification, 6 months before the election, and then oops turns out those people were still alive but it's too late for you to re-register because election day is today."
Except that never happens, it's just agit-prop for people who won't bother to check it out. Voter roles are culled based on specific criteria, usually based on voter inactivity. There are exactly zero verifiable instances of just black people being removed from the voter roles. Those stories are aimed at very stupid people with confirmation bias.
Also, provisional ballots exist for folks who show up to vote and discover their names aren't on the list (for whatever reason). They are given provisional ballots to use and then their eligibility is determined after the fact.
What's really racist is the idea that minorities are just incapable of getting an ID.
It's plausible that an admin or tech installed it for convenience at certain trouble customers and current execs just weren't aware. It doesn't mean they lied. This was 15-20 years ago. Pretty common practice.
"And they were churning out updates and changes every year."
That's exactly what I said. Major manufacturers stick with one design for a model year. It's easy to go to AutoZone and ask for Part X for a 2015 Impala and not have any confusion. The same can't be said for a Model 3. How are the different revisions delineated? As far as I know the VIN's aren't even sequential.
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. A friend had his Model 3 delivered a month ago and its fit and finish is worse than any car I've seen from a major manufacturer since the early 1980's..
Nonsense. Every day there are both positive and negative articles about Tesla and Musk on Jalopnik. The Musk cult is so over the top Jalopnik even had to address the issue a few weeks ago.
" so the lion share of the maintenance/repair work will likely be done by Tesla"
Which is another reason not to own a Tesla. Who pays the tow fee for the mostly several-hundred mile trek to a regional service center?
"this applies to every car made. go to get parts from a store, and they ask if it was before this date, or after that date, and i'm not talking about model years, i'm talking withing the same model year?"
Say what? I've never experienced that and would be shocked that any modern production car has that issue. Supercars maybe, but not mass-produced daily drivers like the Model 3 wants to be.
This is probably one of the reasons a Tesla can only be serviced by one of their sparse service centers and not the average mechanic (another drawback to owning one).
Customer satisfaction has nothing to do with recalls and you know that.
In March Tesla was forced to recall half the cars it had ever produced: https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...
That was just ONE issue. When the tent models start being delivered you can expect far more quality problems.
The Big 3 have spent $billions and hundreds of thousands if not millions of man-hours over the past century refining their processes to maximize efficiency and quality. It's ludicrous to suggest that somehow they missed the virtues of erecting an open tent and near-sweatshop working conditions for their assembly lines.
The only similarity between Tesla and Amazon is that both are headed by egomaniacal billionaires. The companies have nothing more in common besides that and its quite telling how the Tesla cult has to go that deep to find a positive analogue.
You've inadvertently illustrated one of the problems with the Model 3. How many different revisions of this thing are there and how much more difficult does that make them to repair? What differentiates Rev A, Rev B, etc? That's going to make long-term maintenance, repair and restoration a nightmare. That's why every other car manufacturer settles on a design and sticks with it for a full model year before releasing a new revision.
Not to mention Musk's very public nervous breakdown that he's inexplicably broadcasting live to the world.
It makes no sense to plan for something that *might* happen 50-100 years for now when we don't even fully understand what that something is, not to mention all of the other unforseen things that *will* happen during that time.
China as a State Party of the Geneva Convention takes it more seriously than most signatories. They hosted the 40th anniversary conference last year.
Blinding is also prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
Republicans ended slavery and were on the forefront of the civil rights movement. You've allowed yourself to be brainwashed.