The ballot is still secret. The signature is on a "privacy envelope" that contains the ballot. They verify the signature on the envelope, open it, and take the ballot out and put it into a pile to be counted by other official election counters.
Not conceptually different from verifying ID before handing you a ballot and pointing to a booth.
Yes, I have a familiarity with this Senator, as I voted for him twice when I lived in Portland. And yes, I'm aware that Senators usually need to be present in the United States Senate to do their job. That doesn't mean that he should spend 90% of his time that the Senate isn't in session in New York, rather than doing the other thing Senators are supposed to do: meet with their constituents and learn what issues they face, so that he can represent them better.
That being said, Wyden does a far better job than that muppet Merkely does. Has Merkely done anything in his time in the Senate besides bitch about the processes in the Senate... as a freshman Senator that has absolutely no power or clout to change anything about the workings of the Senate?
Actually, the President is supposed to do this kind of thing - direct the executive branch to have plans and prepare for things that can negatively affect the well being of the country. It only oversteps constitutional authority if the Constitution (or other laws passed by Congress) say they can't; or if they want a single penny to enact these plans that hasn't already been appropriated by Congress.
And when those ballots are turned in without signatures that match the voters' registration cards, they are set aside. Ballots are mailed out weeks in advance, and when those voters don't receive ballots they call the election office and ask for a replacement. And when those ballots have valid signatures on them, the election officials are looking right at documented evidence of fraud which can be reported to the FBI.
Which is why any sane vote-by-mail setup would have signature verification in place. Having 100 ballots doesn't do anything if you also don't have the corresponding 100 signatures to be verified by monitored election officials.
It's almost like this has been thought through before being implemented successfully in several states.
Unless there is signature verification, which is the way any sane setup would have. Oregon at the very least does this before even looking at the ballot.
You receive your ballot in the mail, as well as two envelopes. One is a 'secrecy' envelope with a signature line on the back, the other a standard envelope with the address of the county seat of government on it, and prepaid postage.
You fill out your ballot, you put it in the inner envelope, you sign that, and then you put it in the outer envelope. At the county elections office, they compare the signature on the inner envelope with the one on record from your voter registration. If it matches, they open it up and count the ballot. If unsigned, or wildly different, they put the ballot aside.
Perfect? No. Largely useable without complaint? So far, for 15+ years.
Because this Senator is from a state that largely doesn't matter in Presidential politics, and needs a headline so people remember him. Especially since he spends the vast majority of his time in either Washington DC or New York City, and not anywhere in the state he represents.
Smells of horse shit. If any company required you to give unfilled ballots to your CEO, it wouldn't be a company much longer. Someone would drop a dime to the FBI and that CEO and anyone involved would be in Federal prison.
There's no way to tell. In reality though, if the voter signs the ballot (as is done in the vote-by-mail process in Oregon) and the signature matches what is in the voter registry, does it really matter? They endorsed what is selected on the ballot.
Of course it matters if they are pressured into voting one particular way by illegal means, but there is nothing inherently worse about vote-by-mail than the current system.
This is why in Oregon you can drop off your ballot at designated places. When I lived in Portland, I didn't ever mail it - I drove to the Multnomah County HQ and they had volunteers standing around the entire block taking ballots into lockboxes with slots in the top. You drive up to the curb, drop your sealed ballot envelope into the box, and drive away.
Odd. BMW has had that for years - I had a 2008 335i with RTTI. Does Audi screw you by making it an option that has to be installed at time of vehicle delivery or something?
Sure they can. They still need to pay ABC / Disney / ESPN a shit ton of money for their cable properties, including the Disney Channel(s) and the ESPN series of channels, with all the other horseshit bundled channels that come along. And there's a nice fat bundle of bullshit that comes with Discovery and it's family of channels too.
I'm just surprised that anyone actually thought that Barbara Boxer was representing anyone besides herself. What did they expect to get back from her office?
1. Cable and Telcos not making enough money: HAHAHA hahaha ahahhahha heeeheeheee Heh. Oh, were you being serious?
2. Apparently Google, Facebook, etc. are fine with laying their own undersea cable, as this story is about them doing exactly that. What have you got a problem with again?
I knew this pedantic post would be here. I just knew it.
Here's why it's "faster" - not because photons move through it faster than usual, but because per huge chunk of data, the total transfer time will be smaller. Less time used = faster. Much like how gigabit Ethernet is "faster" than 100Mbps Ethernet - the electrons move at the same speed, but the data moves through the queue quicker.
Probably because it costs 5 cents to make sure there isn't a static discharge that could potentially cause a battery fire while these things are being tossed around a shipping company's logistics center, or bouncing about in the back of a truck?
1. your tinfoil hat needs adjustment. 2. Why would an optical engineer be working on batteries and charging circuits? That's what electrical engineers and chemical engineers are for.
So you are saying that Comcast doesn't fuck over Charter / Time Warner, AT&T / DirecTV, or Dish to carry those 15+ channels you just named? Because there's absolutely no conflict of interest involved there.
Also, how many channels are the HD feed of the exact same thing? Time Warner just adds 1,000 to the channel number and it's HD, but the SD version is still on the cable* taking up bandwidth. And how many channels are reserved for pay-per-view, which millions of people will NEVER use?
Every cable system is digital now - why aren't we only using the bandwidth necessary for the thing you're actually watching, which would also allow for a la carte channel selection? Oh, I know - because of the bundling racket that ABC/Disney/ESPN, Comcast/Universal/NBC, and their friends enjoy.
* assuming that they aren't bank-switching with a SDV adapter
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The ballot is still secret. The signature is on a "privacy envelope" that contains the ballot. They verify the signature on the envelope, open it, and take the ballot out and put it into a pile to be counted by other official election counters.
Not conceptually different from verifying ID before handing you a ballot and pointing to a booth.
Yes, I have a familiarity with this Senator, as I voted for him twice when I lived in Portland. And yes, I'm aware that Senators usually need to be present in the United States Senate to do their job. That doesn't mean that he should spend 90% of his time that the Senate isn't in session in New York, rather than doing the other thing Senators are supposed to do: meet with their constituents and learn what issues they face, so that he can represent them better.
That being said, Wyden does a far better job than that muppet Merkely does. Has Merkely done anything in his time in the Senate besides bitch about the processes in the Senate... as a freshman Senator that has absolutely no power or clout to change anything about the workings of the Senate?
Fine. I'll agree with you if you get me my signature. And it had better be close to what is on my passport.
Good luck.
Actually, the President is supposed to do this kind of thing - direct the executive branch to have plans and prepare for things that can negatively affect the well being of the country. It only oversteps constitutional authority if the Constitution (or other laws passed by Congress) say they can't; or if they want a single penny to enact these plans that hasn't already been appropriated by Congress.
Except for when pro users of Mac products buy keyboards specific to applications, such as this one for Adobe Premiere.
Have one of these new ones? Just load a profile that ships with your edit suite, and save $130.
And when those ballots are turned in without signatures that match the voters' registration cards, they are set aside. Ballots are mailed out weeks in advance, and when those voters don't receive ballots they call the election office and ask for a replacement. And when those ballots have valid signatures on them, the election officials are looking right at documented evidence of fraud which can be reported to the FBI.
Which is why any sane vote-by-mail setup would have signature verification in place. Having 100 ballots doesn't do anything if you also don't have the corresponding 100 signatures to be verified by monitored election officials.
It's almost like this has been thought through before being implemented successfully in several states.
Unless there is signature verification, which is the way any sane setup would have. Oregon at the very least does this before even looking at the ballot.
The way it works in Oregon:
You receive your ballot in the mail, as well as two envelopes. One is a 'secrecy' envelope with a signature line on the back, the other a standard envelope with the address of the county seat of government on it, and prepaid postage.
You fill out your ballot, you put it in the inner envelope, you sign that, and then you put it in the outer envelope. At the county elections office, they compare the signature on the inner envelope with the one on record from your voter registration. If it matches, they open it up and count the ballot. If unsigned, or wildly different, they put the ballot aside.
Perfect? No. Largely useable without complaint? So far, for 15+ years.
Because this Senator is from a state that largely doesn't matter in Presidential politics, and needs a headline so people remember him. Especially since he spends the vast majority of his time in either Washington DC or New York City, and not anywhere in the state he represents.
Smells of horse shit. If any company required you to give unfilled ballots to your CEO, it wouldn't be a company much longer. Someone would drop a dime to the FBI and that CEO and anyone involved would be in Federal prison.
Yes, but the point is this: filled out by whom?
There's no way to tell. In reality though, if the voter signs the ballot (as is done in the vote-by-mail process in Oregon) and the signature matches what is in the voter registry, does it really matter? They endorsed what is selected on the ballot.
Of course it matters if they are pressured into voting one particular way by illegal means, but there is nothing inherently worse about vote-by-mail than the current system.
This is why in Oregon you can drop off your ballot at designated places. When I lived in Portland, I didn't ever mail it - I drove to the Multnomah County HQ and they had volunteers standing around the entire block taking ballots into lockboxes with slots in the top. You drive up to the curb, drop your sealed ballot envelope into the box, and drive away.
Except that when those animals graze, there are zero deaths other than the rare unfortunate stomping from a cow. Not all beef comes from feed lots.
Odd. BMW has had that for years - I had a 2008 335i with RTTI. Does Audi screw you by making it an option that has to be installed at time of vehicle delivery or something?
Sure they can. They still need to pay ABC / Disney / ESPN a shit ton of money for their cable properties, including the Disney Channel(s) and the ESPN series of channels, with all the other horseshit bundled channels that come along. And there's a nice fat bundle of bullshit that comes with Discovery and it's family of channels too.
I'm just surprised that anyone actually thought that Barbara Boxer was representing anyone besides herself. What did they expect to get back from her office?
1. Cable and Telcos not making enough money: HAHAHA hahaha ahahhahha heeeheeheee Heh. Oh, were you being serious?
2. Apparently Google, Facebook, etc. are fine with laying their own undersea cable, as this story is about them doing exactly that. What have you got a problem with again?
I knew this pedantic post would be here. I just knew it.
Here's why it's "faster" - not because photons move through it faster than usual, but because per huge chunk of data, the total transfer time will be smaller. Less time used = faster. Much like how gigabit Ethernet is "faster" than 100Mbps Ethernet - the electrons move at the same speed, but the data moves through the queue quicker.
Probably because it costs 5 cents to make sure there isn't a static discharge that could potentially cause a battery fire while these things are being tossed around a shipping company's logistics center, or bouncing about in the back of a truck?
1. your tinfoil hat needs adjustment.
2. Why would an optical engineer be working on batteries and charging circuits? That's what electrical engineers and chemical engineers are for.
now only if they were fireproof...
So you are saying that Comcast doesn't fuck over Charter / Time Warner, AT&T / DirecTV, or Dish to carry those 15+ channels you just named? Because there's absolutely no conflict of interest involved there.
Are you an idiot?
That's called "collusion" and it's illegal.
Exactly this.
Also, how many channels are the HD feed of the exact same thing? Time Warner just adds 1,000 to the channel number and it's HD, but the SD version is still on the cable* taking up bandwidth. And how many channels are reserved for pay-per-view, which millions of people will NEVER use?
Every cable system is digital now - why aren't we only using the bandwidth necessary for the thing you're actually watching, which would also allow for a la carte channel selection? Oh, I know - because of the bundling racket that ABC/Disney/ESPN, Comcast/Universal/NBC, and their friends enjoy.
* assuming that they aren't bank-switching with a SDV adapter