Politics Thread

[bigdiggins]

Agreed. So, why is there an outcry against people being able to choose to vote by mail? Why are certain republicans going to court trying to get drive thru votes tossed out?

People who do not feel that voter suppression exists are almost undoubtedly people who's votes are not being suppressed. Chances are they can vote in their precinct on Election Day without any real complications, annoyances, or inconveniences. The problem is for people who have to routinely wait more than four hours to vote because there aren't enough polling places to meet their demands. Or, they have to burn a vacation day from work because it is an all day affair, if they can even get the day off of work, which not all of them can. In the place where I previously lived, I knew multiple people who arranged to leave work an hour early so they could go vote. By 10am, the networks were already projecting the winners. They were still in the line. So...they just went home. For all practical purposes, their votes were suppressed. If that does not routinely happen to you, then realize that it does routinely happen to certain demographics of people in this country. So, yes. They would rather vote by mail, or vote early, or do drive through voting. The fact that there is a lot more of that in this election than their has been before is a good thing, but it's still not good enough, and it also still appears that there are certain forces that are trying to limit it.

There are a lot of places you could project the winner on Oct 1 and be 95% accurate.

[XU 87]

If true, then this is simply too stupid to work, which is what makes it so hard to believe. So basically the plan is equivalent to a 15 year old who’s camped out in front of a liquor store and approaching complete strangers to see if they’ll buy him booze. GREAT PLAN!! You’ve got about 10 mins before you’re shooed away and the cops are called. This is so moronic, that I personally would have had to know more. I would have probably pretended to go along with it for a second just to see exactly what his plan was.

I mean, c’mon. Did this REALLY happen?? I know we are talking about the fringe left, but still...

It happened. It was actually the lead story on one of the local news stations. But your response to this incident is interesting. You aren't concerned- you just make fun of it. The question I have- how many people tripled their vote at this polling place?

[xubrew]

There are a lot of places you could project the winner on Oct 1 and be 95% accurate.

Daylight savings time caused me to confuse AM and PM.

[STL_XUfan]

It happened. It was actually the lead story on one of the local news stations. But your response to this incident is interesting. You aren't concerned- you just make fun of it. The question I have- how many people tripled their vote at this polling place?

Could we get a link to the story or at least name the local news station.

[xubrew]

It happened. It was actually the lead story on one of the local news stations. But your response to this incident is interesting. You aren't concerned- you just make fun of it. The question I have- how many people tripled their vote at this polling place?

My guess would be zero.

And yes, to be fair, I find it more astonishing than concerning. It actually is easy for me to believe that a guy selling snake oil would try going up to a stranger, ask if they wanted their vote to count triple, then try and sell them something to fill out and then just take off with their money. As far as actually getting peoples' votes to count triple, how would that even work? It seems like someone who is actually working at the polling place would have to be in on it, and even if they did want to stack the votes one way or another I have a hard time believing this is how they'd go about it. A guy just approaching random strangers outside?? How would he even know who to approach?? How would he know that the people he approached voted for the candidates that he wanted to stack it for??

And say someone says "Okay, I want it to count trilple." THEN WHAT?? He gives them two more ballots outside the polling place?? Do they then walk right back in with two ballots with some sort of an explanation as to A) why they have two, and B) why they received them before coming into the building?? I mean, if that's their plan, then why approach anyone? Why not just fill out the blank ballots themselves??

It just seems ridiculous. There are ways to cheat the election. I don not believe this is one of them.

[paulxu]

I would guess he's confused about this tactic to encourage more voting in our elections. (Not to have fraudulent ballots cast)

https://www.vote-tripling.org/

[xubrew]

I would guess he's confused about this tactic to encourage more voting in our elections. (Not to have fraudulent ballots cast)

https://www.vote-tripling.org/

I suppose this is another possible explanation.

[XU 87]

Could we get a link to the story or at least name the local news station.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/dou...f-early-voting

[xubrew]

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/dou...f-early-voting

Okay, being very familiar with that particular part of Atlanta, I’m rather comfortable with guessing this was just some guy looking to con people for a handout and not someone who was actually able to pull off triple voting. If you’ve ever been to the Vatican, this is akin to the com artists outside asking people if they want to meet the pope, or if they want to buy a pass that allows them to skip all the lines. He definitely did the right thing reporting it, but I SERIOUSLY doubt this was some coordinated inside effort.

[Masterofreality]

Speaking of...

Has anyone else been following the Glenn Greenwald departure from The Intercept today? Wow! Media Wars Gone Wild! (btw, Greenwald brought us the Edward Snowden info, which is his most noted achievement. He also co-founded The Intercept)


Greenwald's Claims


Main Stream Media Response (NBC News)


The Intercept's Response


Every day, things get more interesting.

This Greenwald saga is the microcosm for everything that is wrong with the Main Stream media too.

The "cool kids" from woke college journalism schools are taking over the palace, and making it a veritable Garbage Dump.

Another example of a quality journalist being cancelled is Bari Weiss, former NYT editor who was summarily run out of the Times for daring to question this ridiculous movement. Anyone on Twitter should follow Weiss and Greenwald. It's an eye opener, and horrible for our "free" press.