The Cathedral's security apparatus has made sure we never have fair elections again. The burden of proof should be on the dupes or crooks who defend early and mail-in voting like this piece of shit. Assume the election is rigged and prove it was not.
Nah, it's just rigged to a degree in specific places. The problem with Arizona is the disproportionate power of Maricopa county itself. This kind of shit is why we need state electoral colleges. Beyond that, many elections are still actually fair. Ohio and Florida seemed to have no significant issues. We just need to use power to clear out the bad ones. There's probably only a couple dozen corrupt BOE's that need to be cleared out.
if your elections are not day of, in person, hand counted under observation, with photo ID, then your elections are not legitimate. It’s really that simple. Instead, we basically have a fucking honor system. We have cultural and political enemies who would rather kill each other than compromise, and we’re supposed to just trust everyone not to take advantage of the massive vulnerabilities in our voting?
I can accept some kinds of absentee ballots, but those should still be able to be handled within reason, with a strong chain of custody, including signature verification and address audits. Possibly not even mailed out, but just picked up at the local BoE, with the ballot printed in accordance with the voter's original jurisdiction, handed back to that local BoE in person, and mailed out to the voter's original BoE. Absentee votes can be done reasonably, but mail-in (really: mail out voting) has no reason to exist.
While the assumption of the average citizen should be thus, I don't think we want the law working that way. That is, reversing things and assuming guilt until innocence is proven is an incredibly dangerous thing to implement and I think it should be opposed as a matter of principle. Attack the malfunctioning legal system from a different angle that doesn't damn us all.
The "attack" requires ending mail-ins and early voting and enlisting bipartisan poll watchers at every polling place, observing the process from start to finish. Until that happens, I will not assume any election is fair, given the Twatter revelations. Also, reverting to paper-only ballots counted by the humble Scantron machine would help, as well as declaring a dedicated election day, one day only, a federal holiday on which people can be excused from work.
Fucking scumbag.
The Cathedral's security apparatus has made sure we never have fair elections again. The burden of proof should be on the dupes or crooks who defend early and mail-in voting like this piece of shit. Assume the election is rigged and prove it was not.
Nah, it's just rigged to a degree in specific places. The problem with Arizona is the disproportionate power of Maricopa county itself. This kind of shit is why we need state electoral colleges. Beyond that, many elections are still actually fair. Ohio and Florida seemed to have no significant issues. We just need to use power to clear out the bad ones. There's probably only a couple dozen corrupt BOE's that need to be cleared out.
I second this comment by current_horror:
Okay, well imma quote me then:
You make it sound like that's a reasonably easy thing to do. It might as well be all fifty states with how they'll fight to keep their hold in place.
I never said it was easy. It's going to be a slog, but the corruption isn't universal, it's just systemic.
While the assumption of the average citizen should be thus, I don't think we want the law working that way. That is, reversing things and assuming guilt until innocence is proven is an incredibly dangerous thing to implement and I think it should be opposed as a matter of principle. Attack the malfunctioning legal system from a different angle that doesn't damn us all.
I'm just spooked by the prospect of jettisoning the principle of "innocent until proven guilty".
Anything that even smells like reversing that is a huge red flag for me.
the state itself is not a citizen and does not have the rights thereof.
The "attack" requires ending mail-ins and early voting and enlisting bipartisan poll watchers at every polling place, observing the process from start to finish. Until that happens, I will not assume any election is fair, given the Twatter revelations. Also, reverting to paper-only ballots counted by the humble Scantron machine would help, as well as declaring a dedicated election day, one day only, a federal holiday on which people can be excused from work.