Nevada voters are all sent a vote by mail package and the entirety of my voting family did that and dropped off the ballot at the ballot harvesting facility. I’m fairly sure I’ll get an email saying that my ballot was received and processed. My mom said she had and I remember that from past elections.
I don’t know what they do in Pigfucker / Mormonland, but in my decade or so of experience voting in Clark County, mostly from abroad, they seem to have a pretty good handle on things.
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before but I was once fired as a vote counter in a teamsters election.
I swear to God you are the most interesting man alive. I do not mean that in any bad way. I don’t know how you’ve had the time to do so many things. I truly don’t. But, I am honored to know the most interesting man alive.
This wasn’t my experience. Just that long ballot, you put in the machine, make your picks, machine spits out the same ballot which you then insert into another machine.
I mean there’s a paper/ballot trail, but only one.
Might be because you’re in a different district? In mine there were sooooo many elections to vote on that it took two pieces of paper (otherwise process was the same). I’m in the new district, so maybe that has something to do with it.
That’s our system here in Williamson County, too: one long piece of cardstock that gets printed with the elections relevant to your precinct, you make your selections, the machine prints them on the cardstock (text and barcode), and then you feed that piece into a counter. Presumably everything can be pre-loaded with the appropriate info and then air-gapped, and the totals from the counting machine can be dowloaded to some piece of removable media and taken to the central counting authorities.
They’re getting more clever about hiding their real agendas, probably figuring that they can more easily skate in by behaving moderately and sporting the R behind their name. But watch their behavior after they’re elected.
Hell no! Unabashedly voted straight blue, as I have done since 2018.
Any candidate still identifying as Republican is MAGA, even if they say they aren’t. It doesn’t matter if they’re calm and erudite or a twitchy mouth-breather, they all vote in lockstep in Congress so it’s a difference without a distinction.
Reminds me of the meme/tweet that said something like 'what do historians call non-racist people that voted for the Nazi party because of the economy, or fear of crime, or jobs? They call them Nazis because that’s what they were".
My first time voting as a freshly-minted citizen was in 2016. I researched the candidates and my ballot was across the spectrum. After the GOP dropped into gooselockstep with Trump, I went straight Dems in 2018.
This is clearly a widespread thing, because TX Republicans took away the option to vote straight ticket. If more people were voting straight ticket Republican, it would still be an option.
Plus it makes voting take longer so the people they want to not vote will have longer wait times (since they have fewer polling places and fewer machines) and might not vote because of that.
Exactly. And, if nothing else, people might not bother to make elections down the ballot so the GOP can keep hold of the local administrations and the courts.