The whole “I’m gonna do everything I can to make sure areas with more dems have a harder time voting” is what gets me. If your brand of politics is so superior then everyone should vote for it and you don’t have to suppress votes.
I work a swing so I’ll have to catch updates on breaks or ask the pilots when they push lol. (I work do that). Guessing nothing will be known until the next day or two anyway.
Sadly, a deal will be made because if you are a specific type of person you don't have to face consequences in this country, and we are "going to need a time of national healing and solidarity".
Here in Texas they limited to one ballot drop off per county. Harris county in Houston has 4.7 million people, another county in West Texas has 170 people. And just today a group of GOP are trying to get judges to throw out 100,000 ballots casted through drive thru in Harris County (Houston) even tho their previous attempts to block drive thru was shot down.
I’d love to see him in jail. But i also think we need to move on as cliche as it sounds. I don’t want Congress bogged down with Benghazi type hearings.
Wife and I tried to go early vote the other day just to avoid election day madness. My county (small compared to Houston by an order of magnitude) also has 1 site for the whole county. The line was 4.5 hours. We had our newborn with us, so that was obviously a no go, so we will be going separately on the 3rd more than likely. Kinda sucks because it's my wife's first time to be able to vote as a newly minted citizen and she wanted to share the moment with me.
Nah screw that. People need to face consequences for their actions.
Can you list any other country examples who wait around a week to certify election results because some person sent in their mail in ballot on the day designated for election? I sure don’t know of any. The whole point of an “absentee ballot” is just that: You’re going to be “absent” on Election Day, so you would like to cast your vote ahead of time, but it should be on *you* to ensure that it would be counted on the day your entire country is scheduled to vote, and putting it in the mail the literal day of election isn’t doing that.
So, this goes against your post, where you said this was about being counted and not being turned in? I’m confused.
I’m consistent about established rules in a good system being followed. I don’t see how this is a contradiction with any other stances I hold.
Other countries don’t have 50 separate elections and an electoral college. So if you wanna go to a popular vote we can change it.
So that’s a no. Thanks.
Heh. Wasnt this how hunger games ended. The new person in charge said that they would do a ceremonial hunger games for the sake of healing.
So you can’t even vote in your election if you aren’t in your state. Except for mail. And the mail is controlled by the guy running. You don’t see any problems.
1) I don't pretend to be an expert on the electoral systems of other countries. I can however, say that many other countries have done a much better job of updating thier systems to the day and age we live in, which we fail to do. Hell it's the first Tuesday of the month of November because of antiquated ideas about when the most people would be in town selling crops after market Monday to vote.
I mean real world example would be Nixon, or any of the Bush officials that were responsible for Iraq, or gitmo, or any number of other Washington clusterfuck, but sure ya the hunger games too I guess haha.Heh. Wasnt this how hunger games ended. The new person in charge said that they would do a ceremonial hunger games for the sake of healing.
Yeahhhh I'm living the Country Life now Haha. Just...please dont move to Jersey. You sonofabitch I already know you're gonna live in Cherry Hill
Other countries have voting on weekends or they make it a national holiday. Some even make it compulsory. So if you want to do that to make it easier to vote I’m all for it.Can you list any other country examples who wait around a week to certify election results because some person sent in their mail in ballot on the day designated for election? I sure don’t know of any. The whole point of an “absentee ballot” is just that: You’re going to be “absent” on Election Day, so you would like to cast your vote ahead of time, but it should be on *you* to ensure that it would be counted on the day your entire country is scheduled to vote, and putting it in the mail the literal day of election isn’t doing that.
It was never designed to wait to announce results until November 15th to ensure someone who mailed their absentee ballot while they were traveling in the Himalayas on November 3rd, either. Counting can take a few days, but the deadline for receiving votes should be election day.
So, this goes against your post, where you said this was about being counted and not being turned in? I’m confused.
I’m consistent about established rules in a good system being followed. I don’t see how this is a contradiction with any other stances I hold.
It’s a stretch Armstrong’s reach to equate “Your ballot must be received by 11:59pm on Election Day” to “You’re an authoritarian who doesn’t want people to have their say.” Jeez.
[edit] I did a little research for you:
Absentee voting in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
“ For the vote to be counted, it must reach the returning officer/polling station by the close of poll (usually 10 p.m. on polling day).”
Is it really that unreasonable to you?
