So you have no problem with these political activists then? Well I do, just the same as any other political activist, but that is because I do not have a perception issue that projects my own assumptions on others.
If you have a problem with political activism you have a problem with me.
I have a problem with their politics, but not that they're active. Politics has been professionalized too long; if more people engaged in it they'd be forced to reckon more with the consequences of the policies they advocate. I'll take some uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinners over leaving decisions to a political class that faces no consequences for their actions.
When the process has turned the people so polarized that any activism further divides us and the participants in the perverted system leave us no viable choices on the ballots, then yes political activism is producing our leaders and corrupting law making ability with no end in sight ergo I have a problem with a system that results in participation only feeding the beast and not solving our problems. So I do not have a problem with participation, just participation in an environment that is so toxic that the encouragement of the system to continue is making things worse. You know what, just vote 3rd party or not and I wish you and all of us good luck.
Edit: Really all that I had to say is participate in shit and you will get shit results.
So you have no problem with these political activists then? Well I do, just the same as any other political activist, but that is because I do not have a perception issue that projects my own assumptions on others.
If you have a problem with political activism you have a problem with me.
I have a problem with their politics, but not that they're active. Politics has been professionalized too long; if more people engaged in it they'd be forced to reckon more with the consequences of the policies they advocate. I'll take some uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinners over leaving decisions to a political class that faces no consequences for their actions.
You know your political process is corrupt, contaminated and perverted when People perceive political activism in it of itself becomes the biggest obstacle of producing a remedy.
fixed your convenient omission.
So you have no problem with these political activists then? That's what I thought. Well I do too, just the same as any other political activist, but that is because I do not have a perception issue that projects my own assumptions on others.
You know your political process is corrupt, contaminated and perverted when People perceive political activism in it of itself becomes the biggest obstacle of producing a remedy.
You know your political process is corrupt, contaminated and perverted when political activism in it of itself becomes the biggest obstacle of producing a remedy.
From the Washington Post:âA bipartisan commission chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker said back in 2009,â Barr said, âthat a mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion."
Notice the important difference between what the Carter-Baker team wrote and what Barr said. Barr claimed that mail-in voting was âfraught with risk.â The commission said that it was âthe largest source of fraudâ â but not that fraud is common, because it isn't.
Before compiling its report, the group looked at existing mail-in voting systems and offered recommendations for change. This was 15 years ago, since which states have broadly expanded mail-in voting options. A Post analysis of 14.6 million ballots cast by mail in 2016 and 2018 found only 372 possible instances in which someone might have voted twice or where a ballot might have been submitted for a deceased person. If each of those votes was, in fact, fraudulent, it would mean that 0.003 percent of votes in those two years were suspect. To put that in grim context, thatâs 1/22nd the percentage of Americans who have died of the coronavirus. If all of those ballots were actually fraudulent
One person who doesnât believe the Carter-Baker commissionâs admonitions should apply this year? Jimmy Carter.
Carter Center Statement on Voting by Mail for 2020 U.S. Elections
May 06, 2020ATLANTA (May 6, 2020) â The United States faces a series of critical challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, including serious impediments to holding safe, secure, and inclusive elections in November. Many voters across the U.S. are likely to find themselves in areas where the pandemic has not abated and where the health risks involved in going to polling locations will be unacceptably high.
To address this threat, The Carter Center urges federal and state governments to expand access to vote-by-mail options and to provide adequate funding as quickly as possible to allow for the additional planning, preparation, equipment, and public messaging that will be required.
The nonpartisan 2005 Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, noted among its many findings and recommendations that because it takes place outside the regulated environment of local polling locations, voting by mail creates increased logistical challenges and the potential for vote fraud, especially if safeguards are lacking or when candidates or political party activists are allowed to handle mail-in or absentee ballots.
However, the Carter-Baker Commission found that where safeguards for ballot integrity are in place â for example in Oregon, where the entire state has voted by mail since 1998 â there was little evidence of voter fraud. The commissionâs main recommendations on vote-by-mail and absentee voting were to increase research on vote-by-mail (and early voting) and to eliminate the practice of allowing candidates or party workers to pick up and deliver absentee ballots. Fortunately, since 2005, many states have gained substantial experience in vote-by-mail and have shown how key concerns can be effectively addressed through appropriate planning, resources, training, and messaging.
âI urge political leaders across the country to take immediate steps to expand vote-by-mail and other measures that can help protect the core of American democracy â the right of our citizens to vote,â said former President Carter.
Under election law in North Carolina, where an estimated 600,000 voters have requested absentee ballots for November, it is illegal for "any person with intent to commit a fraud to register or vote at more than one precinct or more than one time, or to induce another to do so, in the same primary or election, or to vote illegally at any primary or election."
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Sep 3, 2020 - 12:51pm
KarmaKarma wrote:
Barr talking out of his ass â again.
From the Washington Post:
âA bipartisan commission chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker said back in 2009,â Barr said, âthat a mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion."
Notice the important difference between what the Carter-Baker team wrote and what Barr said. Barr claimed that mail-in voting was âfraught with risk.â The commission said that it was âthe largest source of fraudâ â but not that fraud is common, because it isn't.
Before compiling its report, the group looked at existing mail-in voting systems and offered recommendations for change. This was 15 years ago, since which states have broadly expanded mail-in voting options. A Post analysis of 14.6 million ballots cast by mail in 2016 and 2018 found only 372 possible instances in which someone might have voted twice or where a ballot might have been submitted for a deceased person. If each of those votes was, in fact, fraudulent, it would mean that 0.003 percent of votes in those two years were suspect. To put that in grim context, thatâs 1/22nd the percentage of Americans who have died of the coronavirus. If all of those ballots were actually fraudulent
One person who doesnât believe the Carter-Baker commissionâs admonitions should apply this year? Jimmy Carter.
Carter Center Statement on Voting by Mail for 2020 U.S. Elections
May 06, 2020
ATLANTA (May 6, 2020) â The United States faces a series of critical challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, including serious impediments to holding safe, secure, and inclusive elections in November. Many voters across the U.S. are likely to find themselves in areas where the pandemic has not abated and where the health risks involved in going to polling locations will be unacceptably high.
To address this threat, The Carter Center urges federal and state governments to expand access to vote-by-mail options and to provide adequate funding as quickly as possible to allow for the additional planning, preparation, equipment, and public messaging that will be required.
The nonpartisan 2005 Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, noted among its many findings and recommendations that because it takes place outside the regulated environment of local polling locations, voting by mail creates increased logistical challenges and the potential for vote fraud, especially if safeguards are lacking or when candidates or political party activists are allowed to handle mail-in or absentee ballots.
However, the Carter-Baker Commission found that where safeguards for ballot integrity are in place â for example in Oregon, where the entire state has voted by mail since 1998 â there was little evidence of voter fraud. The commissionâs main recommendations on vote-by-mail and absentee voting were to increase research on vote-by-mail (and early voting) and to eliminate the practice of allowing candidates or party workers to pick up and deliver absentee ballots. Fortunately, since 2005, many states have gained substantial experience in vote-by-mail and have shown how key concerns can be effectively addressed through appropriate planning, resources, training, and messaging.
âI urge political leaders across the country to take immediate steps to expand vote-by-mail and other measures that can help protect the core of American democracy â the right of our citizens to vote,â said former President Carter.
So there will be the expected Trump Chaos when it appears that he's won, and it's announced, and then there's the tedious process of eliminating the GOP fraudulent ballots. Of course, he'll announce that he's won (remember "total exoneration"?) and it'll be necessary to walk it back. While he tells his supporters that it's all rigged! (like he said before)
THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA IS ENCOURAGING HIS SUPPORTS TO COMMIT A FELONY
Note that he will not be guilty of a felony for suggesting it, just his supporters that fall for this.
Another interesting not nearly talked about enough side effect of the Trump presidency is the morphing of the Democratic party into a vehicle for US intelligence both the CIA and the FBI. This should make foreign policy and social justice progressives head explode, but Orange Man Bad.â¢
In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military-intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional seatsânearly half the seats where the Democrats were targeting Republican incumbents or open seats created by Republican retirements. Some 30 of these candidates won primary contests and became the Democratic candidates in the November 2018 election, and 11 of them won the general election, more than one quarter of the 40 previously Republican-held seats captured by the Democrats as they took control of the House of Representatives. In 2020, the intervention of the CIA Democrats continues on what is arguably an equally significant scale.
With Kamala Harris onboard looks like the Democratic party is the true party of law and order. So much irony my shirts will be perpetually wrinkle free. Now what was it you didn't like about the Libertarian party again? Follow the true justice and see where it leads you or don't. Elections have become virtually useless and yet the ballot box is our only recourse to break the duopoly, more irony. Have fun with your Ds and Rs.
Thanks for that, I've heard he was doing something like this but misplaced the thought in my overtaxed brain and never followed up. Time to catch up on it.
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The post office can handle most Americans sending dozens of Christmas cards but can't handle a single ballot from them? Obviously, timing is the important factor here.
The post office can handle most Americans sending dozens of Christmas cards but can't handle a single ballot from them? Obviously, timing is the important factor here.
if you're talking about the politicians that's been going on for quite some time
I was actually talking about the hyper politically involved supporters of these politicians, parties and ideologies. The reaching, twisting and looking away into the air and whistling dependent on the agenda of their "team" has reached epic proportions.
