Presidential election, 2016

[Eric the Green]

(11-25-2016, 12:34 AM)Copperfield Wrote:

(11-23-2016, 06:02 PM)Odin Wrote:

(11-23-2016, 10:08 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Interesting how the blue areas are the ones who can't  get their counts in on time.  Still marking ballots, no doubt.

Now this is just vile slander of the basest kind.

Now Odin you have to admit, California does appear to have a significant problem with counting check marks on paper. Honestly at this point it should be the story of the election: Why does California struggle so much with what comes after 3.... 4.....?

And after we all kind of mocked the stupidity/confusion of Florida 16 years ago no less. I guess Kindergarten isn't what it used to be.

There is no comparison between CA this year and FL in 2000. Florida counted votes based on ambiguous card punches, and included misleading butterfly ballots. The whole story was amazing, from deliberately forged ballots to falsely-removed voters from rolls to recounts stopped before they were finished in Palm Beach County by the same Sec. Harris who removed voters from the rolls, to the statewide recount stopped by a partisan Supreme Court. The authorities gave us 8 years of war and a great recession. It is not a matter of mocking, but of horror at what the Republican powers-that-be have done to us, and how they have divided us. And the vote-rigging continues, not in CA, but in the red states that deny voting rights.

California is counting just fine. Mail-in ballots are dropped off at polling places (I know, I have to count them at my precinct, and it's almost half the vote), there are provisional ballots, and late mail-ins too. And they all have to be verified, each one at a time. Counting the lines drawn on the paper ballots is a cinch; a machine does it. It is a matter of being accurate, and making sure everyone who want to, gets to vote. It's a difference between a Democratic-run state in 2016 that cares, and a Republican-run state in 2000 that didn't give a flying fuck.

Quite that simple. Well, it seems to be that simple, a whole lot of the time. It's just a matter of whether you prefer facts, or utopian beliefs that serve the wealthy.