--Make Election day a (mandatory) national holiday
--Same day, in-person voting
--RealID and proof of citizenship required (RealID should indicate citizenship status)
--Ballots counted out loud in every precinct in front of observers (see: Taiwan)
--Counts published openly on a per-precinct basis in a public ledger.
--Ballots stored for 10 years for audits.
--No ballot harvesting
--Limited number of Mail-in ballots, and awarded only by request and approval (keeps number small, smaller number means smaller opportunities for fraud)
Yes, the Senate Parliamentarian's role is purely advisory—their guidance on rules and precedents is not binding.
The Vice President (as President of the Senate) or presiding officer has the authority to overrule that advice and issue rulings on points of order. This has happened before (e.g., VP Rockefeller in 1975), though it's rare. Any ruling can be appealed to the full Senate.
Translated:
"In California, we count every vote**. Not just real votes:
--The extra ones we ordered from the ballot supplier two months ago and filled out in the back room just now.
--The ones we sent to the homeless shelter and filled out for those poor guys (<3 those guys).
--The ones we paid five dollars and a fentanyl-filled syringe for for on skid row, and gripped their hand to fill out (hope that signature passes, also hope he's still alive)
--The ones we didn't expect to receive back because they're in ERIC, so we mailed them, then filled duplicates out in the back room anyway.
**Void if the mailman thinks your ballot 'vibes fascist', but not if you also draw a little totenkopf on it, because then it's complicated and cool and, like, so human.
@JeremyCom Probably the best comparison would be to
establishment : demsoc ballot ratio over time in previous LA elections which had no real Republican contenders.
@MikeCanning7@politicalmath Do they trend democratic socialst every election? In other words, does the intra-democratic-vote skew like this typically, or just this time?
But they just are, dude. This isn’t up for redefinition or a vote. White British are the sole native *and* sole indigenous people of Britain. You’re just wrong. You don’t get how reality works. When you engage in sophistry, you don’t discredit British nativism; the reality of British natives discredits *you*, the United Nations, and Academia.
@RachelBitecofer@amitlikhyani@MeghanMcCain Absolutely terrible. We should be delivering folks directly to a waiting plane with a warm cookie, travel blanket, and $1000 converted to their country of origin’s currency. Deportation should take 4 hours + flight time. It should be polite, warm, kind, comfortable, and fast.
Didn’t read the article (it’s paywalled). That said, characterizing monogamy as ‘DEI for males’ commits the cardinal sin of economics: using statics to analyze dynamic systems. Marriage is a driver of mutual personal development. I’m guessing The effect size is large enough that it swamps any natural selection delta from polygyny.
How do you value coordination? A brief story:
You're walking with Palmer Lucky on a dirt road after spring rains. You come across a cart stuck in mud. You and Palmer attempt to pull the cart out and onto the road. You pull forward, Palmer in reverse, with all your might, out of breath, but the cart doesn't move because you're both equally matched--your forces cancel out at all times, and nothing changes. Dispirited, you arrange to meet at the cart first thing tomorrow, and head to your respective homes.
The next day You and Palmer meet at the cart on the still-muddy forest road, and try again. But wait! A wild Jeff Bezos appears, laughs autistically at your retarded process as you describe the events of the previous day, and directs you to both pull forward. Wow! You and Palmer hadn't thought about that! In fact, you and Palmer are both so inexperienced and borderline retarded that you never would have thought about it, even given a million years.
But now that you're both pulling forward, your evenly matched force vectors are now parallel, and, after some heaving-ho, in fact, exerting exactly the same forces over the same amount of time as yesterday, you manage to extricate the cart, pull to the town market, and sell it for 100 florins. Overjoyed, you split the bag 50-50, and go to your respective homes to feast.
The same amount of labor was expended by yourself and Palmer on the second Day as on the first day--but on the second day Jeff Bezos organized you and you accomplished real work
Question: how would you value Jeff Bezos' input here?
I want every eligible citizen to cast exactly one vote.
I would literally donate to a Democrat NGO to help them knock on every door in America and register every single eligible citizen to vote.
Yes government should give you a voter ID for free. They should also make election day a national holiday.
You should want elections to have maximum credibility-especially if you think your side might win.