Sorry, but no. Absentee ballots are a permanently available choice. Also, the paper ballots, while they exist, are read by a machine, probably the one mentioned in the article. I've never heard of the original paper ballots actually being recounted manually to check the result.
Paper ballots in every state are read by machine, and they are retained in case a recount is needed, which it seldom is because except for a few tokens we keep around for laughs, we don't allow Republicans to get anywhere near a position of power here in California. That's how we keep it so nice here.
And they're not called "absentee ballots" any more. It's just vote-by-mail. It's the exact same ballot that you get at the polling place and you can either drop it off early at one of the qualified locations, mail them, or bring them to the polling place yourself like my wife and I just did.
I am replying to a partisan hack that is dishonestly pretending to misunderstand whats in the article. on purpose. Basically, a lying fucking cunt.
Nothing to misunderstand. A voting machine manual was insecure by design, and the only states where it was used were states run by Republican jackoffs. It's all right there in the article.
The issue is we ignore the next two, which are just as important. One out of three doesn't cut it...
Oh, we have all three. When I registered to vote earlier this year, I had to show proof of my citizenship and a photo ID, and we have vote-by-mail that you don't have to be "absent" to use.
By the way, the states that experts have ranked as the worst for electoral integrity are Arizona, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Tennessee. Also, Texas, Georgia and South Carolina rank pretty low.
I just don't see what the issue is with older users that other people seem to have.
I know, I was only joking. Personally, I'm a very old man, and I'm still a help desk worker's dream. Except for my telecom company. I'm their worst nightmare. I've threatened the life of more than one call center worker (only management though).
They're not bad. Pretty good, in fact. I just saw "Bohemian Rhapsody", the Freddie Mercury biopic, and was lamenting the fact that so precious few new groups are trying to step up to the Queen mantle. I give Muse a lot of credit for trying and this band you just turned me on to is also making a play for that territory.
There's something about that symphonic heavy rock filled with hysterical operatic vocals that gets my blood going. It's not my favorite type of music, but it's all I want to hear when I play video games (except for Fallout games, when I want to hear Ink Spots and weird old stuff). When I play racing sims, I always turn down the game's music and blast a carefully-curated playlist I call, "NFS ULTIMATE". I use headphones, of course, because my wife would think I was completely insane, a grown man banging his head while driving a Lamborghini Huracán through billboards and shit.
A new study conducted at the University of Innsbruck in Austria finds that people who drink their coffee black often has psychopathic or sadistic traits.
I like my coffee like I like my opium: strong and black. My sadistic trait is ridiculing people who can't use basic grammar.
WHAT KIND OF MORON RUNS FTP ON AN ELECTIONS SERVER?
The kind that welcomes foreign interference?
The kind that removes the only polling place in a town just because it has 60% Hispanic voters? The kind that will block your voter registration if your signature at age 60 looks at all different from your signature when you first registered to vote at 18? The kind that "loses" 60,000 vote-by-mail ballots from minority districts? The kind that tries to block half a state's population because they are Native American and live on reservations?
When we're dealing with a certain political party who I will not name (but whose initials are, "GOP"), you should never ascribe to stupidity what can more readily be attributed to racism, evil, and a thirst for power that exceeds their own understanding.
Yeah, I have definitely noticed an upsurge in troll/hatemob comments, and upvotes for same, here over the past year or so. It only affects political articles, and mostly happens in the first few hours after an article is posted. Moderation neutralizes a lot of it eventually but we're definitely under siege, and I feel like we're losing ground.
I think we've actually passed peak troll. I believe they're learning that it's becoming less effective and they'll soon move onto something else, like shooting up synagogues or sending pipe bombs in the mail.
With luck, we may be able to go back to seeing silly, harmless trolling, like GNAA.
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Yeah, I have to admit that one took me by surprise. I have to assume he's not a native speaker or has a high resistance to puns.
OMG.
Paper ballots in every state are read by machine, and they are retained in case a recount is needed, which it seldom is because except for a few tokens we keep around for laughs, we don't allow Republicans to get anywhere near a position of power here in California. That's how we keep it so nice here.
And they're not called "absentee ballots" any more. It's just vote-by-mail. It's the exact same ballot that you get at the polling place and you can either drop it off early at one of the qualified locations, mail them, or bring them to the polling place yourself like my wife and I just did.
This is fake news. I saw Hair Furor on the TV last night and he said the only thing on the ballot is him.
Respect to Washington. They do elections right up there.
Texas doesn't require voter ID, so why aren't you complaining about them? Neither do South Carolina, West Virginia, Utah and a bunch of other states.
"Most of the rest of the world" has universal, single-payer healthcare. I don't see you calling for that you dumb fuck-whistle.
Nothing to misunderstand. A voting machine manual was insecure by design, and the only states where it was used were states run by Republican jackoffs. It's all right there in the article.
Oh, we have all three. When I registered to vote earlier this year, I had to show proof of my citizenship and a photo ID, and we have vote-by-mail that you don't have to be "absent" to use.
By the way, the states that experts have ranked as the worst for electoral integrity are Arizona, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Tennessee. Also, Texas, Georgia and South Carolina rank pretty low.
That's how we do it here in California, which has the fairest and most secure elections in the country.
According to the article, every single one of the 10 states where these machines were used are Republican states where Donald Trump won.
Why doesn't anyone look surprised by that?
I know, I was only joking. Personally, I'm a very old man, and I'm still a help desk worker's dream. Except for my telecom company. I'm their worst nightmare. I've threatened the life of more than one call center worker (only management though).
I'm not sure if providing end-user support gets harder with the age of the IT worker, but it definitely gets harder with the age of the end user.
They're not bad. Pretty good, in fact. I just saw "Bohemian Rhapsody", the Freddie Mercury biopic, and was lamenting the fact that so precious few new groups are trying to step up to the Queen mantle. I give Muse a lot of credit for trying and this band you just turned me on to is also making a play for that territory.
There's something about that symphonic heavy rock filled with hysterical operatic vocals that gets my blood going. It's not my favorite type of music, but it's all I want to hear when I play video games (except for Fallout games, when I want to hear Ink Spots and weird old stuff). When I play racing sims, I always turn down the game's music and blast a carefully-curated playlist I call, "NFS ULTIMATE". I use headphones, of course, because my wife would think I was completely insane, a grown man banging his head while driving a Lamborghini Huracán through billboards and shit.
Good name.
That works too.
"Quantum Supremacy" sounds like the name of a song off a Muse album.
Wow, what does that even mean? It's the functional of equivalent of when someone tells you you're stupid and you answer, "Yeah, your face is stupid!"
Stop, I hate flattery.
That's just pedantic. I was using a variation on a well-known saying. If I'd used "as" it would have spoiled the effect.
I like my coffee like I like my opium: strong and black. My sadistic trait is ridiculing people who can't use basic grammar.
The kind that welcomes foreign interference?
The kind that removes the only polling place in a town just because it has 60% Hispanic voters? The kind that will block your voter registration if your signature at age 60 looks at all different from your signature when you first registered to vote at 18? The kind that "loses" 60,000 vote-by-mail ballots from minority districts? The kind that tries to block half a state's population because they are Native American and live on reservations?
When we're dealing with a certain political party who I will not name (but whose initials are, "GOP"), you should never ascribe to stupidity what can more readily be attributed to racism, evil, and a thirst for power that exceeds their own understanding.
Building a wall around your router isn't going to help. You're going to need a wall and razor wire to be really effective. Maybe a few gun turrets.
Stop trying to make me like him.
I think we've actually passed peak troll. I believe they're learning that it's becoming less effective and they'll soon move onto something else, like shooting up synagogues or sending pipe bombs in the mail.
With luck, we may be able to go back to seeing silly, harmless trolling, like GNAA.
Uh-huh.