Politics And Current Events

[Beveridge]

To be fair, the people Trump has appointed mostly fit the bill of unqualified stooge.

[shafnutz05]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

hax

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

The more people dig into the public record of Mathew Whittaker *insert Trump pick sans Kavanaugh*, the more he looks like an unqualified stooge.

[dodint]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

Inertia of the old coupled with laziness.

[obhave]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

absentee ballots are still necessary, especially if people don't have access to early voting or are traveling/living oversees. I do think that they should have to arrive by election day though.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

Because some people may be out of their registered area on the day we vote?

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

absentee ballots are still necessary, especially if people don't have access to early voting or are traveling/living oversees. I do think that they should have to arrive by election day though.

As long as they are post marked prior to election day they should be valid.

[dodint]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

Because some people may be out of their registered area on the day we vote?

Oddly, you can send information from one geographic region to another over wires and through the air using personal computers and mobile devices. We have the technology.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

Because some people may be out of their registered area on the day we vote?

Oddly, you can send information from one geographic region to another over wires and through the air using personal computers and mobile devices. We have the technology.

And what happens to those that are in locations where there is no cell service or wired internet available?

[dodint]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

Because some people may be out of their registered area on the day we vote?

Oddly, you can send information from one geographic region to another over wires and through the air using personal computers and mobile devices. We have the technology.

And what happens to those that are in locations where there is no cell service or wired internet available?

Or phones? Do they scratch their votes onto rocks and heave them down the mountain to be collected by a base camp?

Voting on personal devices would be great and is the eventual future. Enough old people will die and a new generation will make it happen.

More practically, it seems like it should be easy to write a platform for voting machines where you could go to any voting machine in the country, authenticate, and it pulls up your ballot from your home jurisdiction. Again, not hard at all. IT folks are accomplishing much more difficult missions every day.

The only thing preventing it is closed mindedness and the fear from politicians that they can't manipulate it.

[grunthy]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

Because some people may be out of their registered area on the day we vote?

Oddly, you can send information from one geographic region to another over wires and through the air using personal computers and mobile devices. We have the technology.

And what happens to those that are in locations where there is no cell service or wired internet available?

The Amish can vote with paper still.

[Viva la Ben]

#thuglife
Judge loses reelection, so he sets all the defendants free

A day after Judge Glenn Devlin of Houston lost his reelection bid, he released nearly all of the juvenile defendants who appeared before him, as long as they answered no when he asked if they planned to kill anyone.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/judge-l ... 16167.html

[Troy Loney]

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/41588 ... ut-ban-was

The suspected shooter in Wednesday night’s attack at a California bar used a high-capacity magazine outlawed by a 2016 voter referendum, although its implementation is currently delayed by a lawsuit from gun rights advocates.

Ventury County Sheriff Geoff Dean said at a press conference Thursday that Marine veteran Ian David Long used an extended magazine with his pistol to kill 12 people and that he bought the gun legally.

Great work.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

#thuglife
Judge loses reelection, so he sets all the defendants free

A day after Judge Glenn Devlin of Houston lost his reelection bid, he released nearly all of the juvenile defendants who appeared before him, as long as they answered no when he asked if they planned to kill anyone.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/judge-l ... 16167.html

Judge Devlin also rescheduled all of the cases to be heard during the first week of January, which is when Democrat Natalia Oakes will take the bench.

Important to note that they were all rescheduled.

[Silentom]

Salty af

[nocera]

#thuglife
Judge loses reelection, so he sets all the defendants free

A day after Judge Glenn Devlin of Houston lost his reelection bid, he released nearly all of the juvenile defendants who appeared before him, as long as they answered no when he asked if they planned to kill anyone.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/judge-l ... 16167.html

You know the one kid who answered "Yes" is really kicking himself this morning.

[Troy Loney]

It sounds like a bunch of new Beto voters in that district did the straight ticket D and shook up a ton of down ballot races, electing a bunch of noobs to city/county positions.

[Beveridge]

I would vote yes to remove the option to vote straight ticket. Either pick your options or if you don't care about the other, leave it blank.

Being able to vote straight party is super lazy and super dangerous.

[dodint]

Yes.

[tifosi77]

It's 2018. Why are we still voting by mail and paper? The second the polls close, we should know the winner.

Every registered voter in San Mateo County was mailed a ballot this year. You could either vote early by mail (or on the day or drop off), or vote in person on election day. That's how it should be imo.

[Troy Loney]

https://results.arizona.vote/#/featured/4/0

Sinema is opening up a bit of a lead.

[tifosi77]

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/41588 ... ut-ban-was

The suspected shooter in Wednesday night’s attack at a California bar used a high-capacity magazine outlawed by a 2016 voter referendum, although its implementation is currently delayed by a lawsuit from gun rights advocates.

Ventury County Sheriff Geoff Dean said at a press conference Thursday that Marine veteran Ian David Long used an extended magazine with his pistol to kill 12 people and that he bought the gun legally.

Great work.

This drives me bananas.

One, the Glock 21 is designed to accept a magazine that holds more rounds than are allowable by CA law. Two, changing mags is literally something that takes less than two seconds, especially for someone with an ounce of training; it's not the make-or-brake between calamity and whoo-that-was-close. There is not a single person who lost their life or who was shot and wounded in TO because this guy didn't have to change mags after 10 shots.

This kind of argument is why gun people freak out at the thought of 'common sense' gun control. Because there is nothing sensible about this argument.

[Troy Loney]

Having to change magazines could have arguable saved a life in this situation.

[count2infinity]

I would vote yes to remove the option to vote straight ticket. Either pick your options or if you don't care about the other, leave it blank.

Being able to vote straight party is super lazy and super dangerous.

To couple that, I've often thought that the party affiliation should be removed from the ticket as well. Just the person's name, requiring more work from the candidates to get people to remember who to vote for, not just who not to vote for.

[grunthy]

I would vote yes to remove the option to vote straight ticket. Either pick your options or if you don't care about the other, leave it blank.

Being able to vote straight party is super lazy and super dangerous.

To couple that, I've often thought that the party affiliation should be removed from the ticket as well. Just the person's name, requiring more work from the candidates to get people to remember who to vote for, not just who not to vote for.

And add in a ranking system for voting.