voting issues

This is going to be coming up at some point, so to set things off, a few links: Jennifer Cohn on Diebold/Premier/Global/E&S/Dominion white collar crime & computer tampering, and current types of voting machines used in the USA: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1115650020710072325.html...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/31/conservative-republicans-are-least-supportive-of-making-it-easy-for-everyone-to-vote/ Only about a third of conservative Republicans (36%) favor doing everything possible to make it easy to vote, compared with a majority (65%) of moderate and...

Most people who post on this forum are smarter than me, so I thought I'd see how people would feel about Ranked-Choice voting in the US. I know a couple states have tried to skirt the Electoral College with the proportional award (ME, NE, and CO are the only ones so far, right?). But Maine...

The idea that I could, let's say, swap my vote for Clinton here in Tennessee with a guy voting for Trump in Florida is morally subversive. I cannot decide if it's worse than wife swapping. Obviously with selfies, it's much worse, it's perverse. I cannot imagine people of my generation doing...

Linky. So we know it is happening, but we don't have analysed reasons why or comparisons or anything like that to show it was done maliciously in any particular case.

That is an alternative to first-past-the-post and delayed runoffs. One ranks the candidates by preference, and the ballots are counted by removing the candidate with the fewest highest preferences and then recounting with the preferences for that candidate being absent. Let's look at this very...

This just popped into my head after hearing a news blurb about the voting rate in the last term elections.... We know that even in a busy voting cycle, there is a rather shocking percentage of apathetic voters. What I wondered was....Would the participation of these folks in a given election...

The Supremes have issued a one-sentence order upholding a ruling to allow early voting in Ohio over the last weekend before election day. Big win for Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuKDXeJt7KA Year after year I hear so many complaints about voting systems, but have not seen much dialog about good alternatives. I would appreciate a careful critique of Range Voting, perhaps in contrast to Approval voting, or other such weighted systems...

On another thread, in the USA Politics forum, Sez replied to another poster who said they wouldn't vote in the 2012 elections: "Here" is the Arlington Cemetery, which is where US servicemen and women are buried. Do you think that people should vote if they can? If you are allowed to vote in...

Mods: I'm putting this here because I believe this is a more general topic than "Should USA citizens vote?" If you disagree, please move it. In a discussion about Starship Troopers (surprise surprise :D ) we got into the topic of whether or not people should vote, and what the best situation...

Teabagger whacktard says only property owners should be allowed to vote. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/30/tea-party-voting-property/ And of course, we have mAnn Coulter saying adults under 26 shouldn't vote, and perennial cries of "voter fraud", and goshdarnit these guys are starting to...

An organization of young voters released a commercial in Spain recently, encouraging people to get out and vote; the ad's catchphrase is "Voting is a pleasure": Article (and video - you know you want to watch it now) here. Complete ad (possibly NSFW) here.

I'm out of town and I forgot to get an absentee ballot.

If it's your goal to always act rationally and use your time and energy sensibly and purposefully you shouldn't vote. The only justified reason to vote is to make some difference, however small. But the only real way that your voting will cause any difference whatsoever is if the election is so...

I was just reading the DailyKos and it seems as if there are voting machines that flip the vote, namely a machine named ES&S Touch-Screen. Anyone in here who voted on such a machine yet - or is likely to vote on such a machine on Nov. 4? And for the DailyKos haters - other Media is reporting...

I’m probably 70% platform, and here’s why. One can expect little accuracy in either parameter. Just running for office changes a person: I’ve heard repeatedly how people wish the McCain of 2000 were running today. And a platform is like a battle plan -- pretty much guano at first sight of the...

There's a story hitting talk radio and the internet that the Republican Party In MaComb County, Michigan will try to stop residents,who received foreclosure notices on their homes, from being able to vote in upcoming elections. The story was originally reported by the Michigan Messenger on the...

Just out of curiosity: In contrast to the US, here in Germany you get automatically "registered" and invited to vote. So there is no need to do any- thing besides actually go and vote on election day. Now even if I never voted myself. Since many Members in here come from all over the world...

We may argue about the term rigged - but I think you get my point without doing so ... So what do people in here think about the next elections? Will they be rigged again since Diebold and Friends are still running the party? I know that officials assure that everything will be fine in the...

The July 29, 2007 episode of Media Matters with Bob McChesney (not to be confused with the other Media Matters) featured 2004 Green Party Presidential Candidate, David Cobb. What really interested me was their discussion of instant runoff voting (IRV). I'd heard the term before but never...

From here. So, what does everyone think? An accident that just happens to favor Republicans? Or an inept attempt to hack the vote? Unfortunately, the article doesn't tell us how many glitches constitute a "handful".

You've all heard me complain how they keep raising property taxes in my state. Well, we got another measure on the ballot this week to raise them again. The people who voted in favor of the measure outnumbered the number of people who opposed it by about a 3 to 2 margin. So it passed, right...

which system is more unhealthy....? compare the US democratic and the Italian democratic system.... the US model is set up to ensure a two party system - basically if ur not a democrat or a republican you've no chance..... the Italian model is a multi-party free-for-all - with an absolute...

I just got this very partisan piece of e-mail that makes some serious points. Partisan or not, does it have merit? [/FONT]

I've ranted and argued against the Electoral College in past posts. Do all of us now agree that this worthless, anti-democratic anachronism should be totally abolished after the election? Surely I do not have to review the feeble arguments in favor of this out-dated institution or the obvious...

I'm posting this here rather than in the U.S. election forum because it's not limited to the U.S. In fact, it might apply even more to other countries. In an election year, you can't so much as turn on a television without seeing a "public service" announcement telling people to get out and...

I used to vote in every election I was eligible for, but then about 3 years ago, I stopped voting. The main reason is that I find democracy abhorent and voting is the key act for average people in a democracy. A secondary reason is that it is illogical - no election that I ever voted in or...

Urgent note to Tricky! Would you consider moving to New Mexico (at least for a few months)? You're one of the few people I can think of who might be able to make this interesting idea for IRV a reality. If you haven't already seen this, it's from the July 12 issue of The Nation (available...

Ok, I know votes by individuals 'count', I know that all too well having education in economics and statistics, so I'm not saying my vote doesn't count or anything like that. But, my point is, how can an individual be informed truthfully about candidates' background and what they have to offer...