That just opens the door for a different kind of vote fraud.
There is a reason that we don't give people receipts that prove they voted for a specific candidate. It's to prevent coercion. If I can prove how I voted with a receipt, someone can threaten me into voting for a particular candidate, because they'll be able to confirm that I did what I was told.
I agree, the checks should be in the system, but that system won't work.
A concession is not legally binding. Each state will still need to follow their procedures for counting all of the absentee ballots, investigating all of the provisional ballots, and adding those that are legitimate to the vote count.
In the end, the electors will not be assigned until the results are certified, and the elction won't be *final* until the electoral college votes in December.
The only real effect of the concession is that there will be a lot less lawyers challenging these procedures.
I don't understand why people keep seeing God in everything.
The same reason everyone around you starts using that new word you just learned. It's not that they didn't use that word before, it's only because it is fresh in your mind that you take notice of it.
I think that people who see God's hand in everything tend to be very religious. If you are constantly thinking about God, you are bound to look at things with the perspective that He created everything. You are most likely to interpret a "coincedence" as God's presence.
Likewise, if you think religion is junk, you're going to take more notice of scientific studyies that support your opinion. If someone presents evidence that they claim proves that God exists, you are going to try to find an explanation that doesn't require the existence of God.
A lot of people are so intent on getting their point across that they don't stop to consider alternate explanations. They see things through the filter of what they believe and have experienced and find it unbelievable that someone else could disagree with them in light of the facts they've presented. We tend to believe and remember the evidence that supports our beliefs, and we tend to minimize and forget explanations and evidence to the contrary.
(It's too bad things don't work that way with insults and compliments. Everyone seems to remember my insults and forget the compliments. You'd think they'd want to focus on the positive.:)
"There is a procedure under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act whereby someone who claims to be an owner of Intellectual property can send a notice sworn under penalty of perjury that an item is infringing."
If you're willing to open yourself up to charges of perjury, feel free. If you're not willing to open yourself up to perjury, then EBay has no reason to remove the material you object to.
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That just opens the door for a different kind of vote fraud.
There is a reason that we don't give people receipts that prove they voted for a specific candidate. It's to prevent coercion. If I can prove how I voted with a receipt, someone can threaten me into voting for a particular candidate, because they'll be able to confirm that I did what I was told.
I agree, the checks should be in the system, but that system won't work.
A concession is not legally binding. Each state will still need to follow their procedures for counting all of the absentee ballots, investigating all of the provisional ballots, and adding those that are legitimate to the vote count.
In the end, the electors will not be assigned until the results are certified, and the elction won't be *final* until the electoral college votes in December.
The only real effect of the concession is that there will be a lot less lawyers challenging these procedures.
The same reason everyone around you starts using that new word you just learned. It's not that they didn't use that word before, it's only because it is fresh in your mind that you take notice of it.
I think that people who see God's hand in everything tend to be very religious. If you are constantly thinking about God, you are bound to look at things with the perspective that He created everything. You are most likely to interpret a "coincedence" as God's presence.
Likewise, if you think religion is junk, you're going to take more notice of scientific studyies that support your opinion. If someone presents evidence that they claim proves that God exists, you are going to try to find an explanation that doesn't require the existence of God.
A lot of people are so intent on getting their point across that they don't stop to consider alternate explanations. They see things through the filter of what they believe and have experienced and find it unbelievable that someone else could disagree with them in light of the facts they've presented. We tend to believe and remember the evidence that supports our beliefs, and we tend to minimize and forget explanations and evidence to the contrary.
(It's too bad things don't work that way with insults and compliments. Everyone seems to remember my insults and forget the compliments. You'd think they'd want to focus on the positive. :)
"There is a procedure under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act whereby someone who claims to be an owner of Intellectual property can send a notice sworn under penalty of perjury that an item is infringing."
If you're willing to open yourself up to charges of perjury, feel free. If you're not willing to open yourself up to perjury, then EBay has no reason to remove the material you object to.