03-31-2020, 10:56 AM | #2901 | |
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I just saw they are currently about 7000 poll workers short of what is necessary, but the GOP legislature refuses to budge on date or vote by mail.
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03-31-2020, 10:59 AM | #2902 | |
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Setup kiosks stations and spread them out to help those that don't have a computer or smartphone. Com'on there has to be better alternatives than trusting snail mail. |
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03-31-2020, 11:02 AM | #2903 |
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Snail mail works in a number of states already. We have a national distribution service already in place, too.
If you're going to have voting kiosks, how is that different than just having a normal election?
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03-31-2020, 11:06 AM | #2904 | ||
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It does? Are you talking about early balloting? Nothing near the scale for the general. Quote:
Because there were be many more stations and people will be more spread out. I would also go along with making election day a holiday. |
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03-31-2020, 11:20 AM | #2905 | |
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03-31-2020, 11:27 AM | #2906 | |
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Thanks, good to know. Still go with e-voting as backup. Snail mail seems to fraught with 'points-of-failure' for me. (I did like how they could return the ballot vs mailing it in, that certainly relieves one big point of failure for me). |
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03-31-2020, 11:34 AM | #2907 |
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IIRC, Oregon's voter participation has gone up with the mail in voting system.
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03-31-2020, 11:39 AM | #2908 | |
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Which is why the GOP hates the idea.
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03-31-2020, 12:38 PM | #2909 |
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Oregon has been vote by mail since 1998. Washington state is entirely vote-by-mail as well.
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03-31-2020, 03:00 PM | #2910 | |
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Illinois lets you return it in person or mail it. For what it's worth, they track everything. So I get an e-mail when my ballot is mailed and when they receive it back. |
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03-31-2020, 03:05 PM | #2911 |
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Vote by mail pretty much eliminates fraud and increases participation.
The first reason is why we should do it. The second reason is why we never will. The GOP needs light turnout to consistently win. |
03-31-2020, 03:38 PM | #2912 |
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Vote by mail works great in Colorado. Ballots sent out to every registered voter, then either mail it back or drop it off at one of the may drop boxes each county provides. Can't imagine going to a polling place again and I used to work for an in person voting state in conducting elections.
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03-31-2020, 03:48 PM | #2913 |
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If (big big if) Trump's coronavirus response causes catastrophic GOP losses at the federal and state levels, the Democrats need to take that window of opportunity to create structural changes to help them going forward. Make Puerto Rico a state. Make D.C. a state (or incorporate the citizens of DC into MD or VA). Voting-by mail everywhere possible. Dem-friendly gerrymandering. Eliminate felon disenfranchisement.
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03-31-2020, 04:27 PM | #2914 |
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Absolutely. Fight dirty like Republicans have forever.
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03-31-2020, 04:47 PM | #2915 | |
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Expand the Supreme Court. |
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03-31-2020, 04:54 PM | #2916 |
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Not that the party should base things on what I think, but if that happens this will be the first and only time I consider voting for them. If what we end up with is two parties both trampling institutions and the Constitution every chance they get, I'll vote for a hamster first in the future.
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03-31-2020, 05:00 PM | #2917 |
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Yeah, I probably would not be for expanding SCOTUS, because it'd be really easy for the GOP to do the same thing when they get in and then we have an arms race where 32 justices are on the SCOTUS eventually. On the other hand, statehood for PR and DC are irreversible and the GOP doesn't really have similar options if they get back into power. Vote by mail and felon enfranchisement can be reversed but real gains can be made there. Gerrymandering just a matter of course.
Regarding the SCOTUS, just impeach Kavanaugh if you have overwhelming numbers.
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03-31-2020, 06:47 PM | #2918 |
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Personally, I'm fine with how ever many justices. Right now each one is just too consequential. Let both sides keep adding justices until they finally agree to term limits and an appointment every two years.
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04-02-2020, 08:18 AM | #2919 |
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04-02-2020, 03:37 PM | #2920 |
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Well that's fun - a federal judge refuses to postpone Wisconsin's primary on April 7. It's still on... the Governor of Wisconsin is thinking of using the National Guard for poll workers...
JUST POSTPONE IT YOU IDIOTS!
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04-03-2020, 04:39 AM | #2921 | |
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Federal judge doesn't have jurisdiction. Constitution says that's the state's purview. The judge thinks it SHOULD be delayed, though. Evers wants to delay it but doesn't have the legal authority. The Legislature has to cooperate. But once that genie is out of the bottle and vote-by-mail is a thing here, the GOP risks getting the stuffing beaten out its ass like a pinata that drops infinite king-size candy bars. They've been able to control elections in the state by playing games with which areas get additional polling stations/early voting hours/etc. Vote-by-mail is the end of that game and likely the end of GOP control of the legislature and courts. |
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04-03-2020, 06:55 AM | #2922 |
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I'm sure there are even pretty evil folks out there who are like "good, make them go to the polls and get sick so they won't be around to vote in November".
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04-03-2020, 08:20 AM | #2923 |
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I saw that the plan is to reduce Milwaukee's voting locations from 180 to 12. The GOP is practicing how to steal the general election.
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04-03-2020, 08:22 AM | #2924 |
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04-03-2020, 09:03 AM | #2925 | |
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Yep. We're still waiting for the Trump corruption investigations.
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04-06-2020, 01:00 PM | #2926 |
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So Wisconsin apparently is delaying the primary now, a whole day before it was supposed to happen. That's definitely waiting till the last minute, but it's better than trying to hold it right now for sure.
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04-06-2020, 01:41 PM | #2927 |
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It'll definitely get challenged in court (and the Governor will likely lose), but he probably did the right thing.... though it's a bit scary to see Governor's wield such executive power in postponing elections.
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04-06-2020, 03:03 PM | #2928 |
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As far as I'm concerned, Robin Vos (speaker of the House) and Scott Fitzgerald (Senate majority leader) are complete criminals with no concern for the wellbeing of their state's citizens.
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04-06-2020, 03:28 PM | #2929 | |
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But they really want that Supreme Court seat.
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04-06-2020, 05:10 PM | #2930 |
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04-06-2020, 05:55 PM | #2931 |
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This is a fucking atrocity. I am beyond words over this. Becoming a full-on libtard fueled by hatred of what I see becoming of one of our major political parties. I don't know if the GOP as an institution can recover. I know I won't have any room for forgiveness of most of these fucking people.
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04-06-2020, 06:06 PM | #2932 |
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When the GOP has a choice between power and democracy they will always choose power.
There are scheduled to be 5 voting locations for all of Milwaukee. They are forcing crowds to form and that will result in people dying.
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04-06-2020, 06:18 PM | #2933 | |
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and the most vulnerable are their own base. That should tell their base all they need to know about their party, but instead this will just reinforce that the entire thing is a hoax or overblown. |
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04-06-2020, 06:24 PM | #2934 |
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And now a 5-4 SCOTUS has overruled a lower court and said there can be no extension for absentee ballots.
In a related story, thousands of voters have yet to receive their requested absentee ballots because of disruptions due to the coronavirus.
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04-06-2020, 06:29 PM | #2935 |
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Didn't Dewine do this in Ohio despite the court ruling? I can't see them having the primary. No one will show up to run the polling places. It's the right thing to do to delay.
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04-06-2020, 06:30 PM | #2936 |
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DIfferent laws. The GOP has probably won, and they'll be a primary and some of the voters will die.
But the GOP will hold a SC seat, so everything's worth it.
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04-06-2020, 06:31 PM | #2937 |
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Conspiracy theory: This is a test run by Trump to get ready for the 2024 election cycle to F up the whole process and he can step in and get his 3rd term.
Things that make you go hmmmmmm.
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04-06-2020, 06:44 PM | #2938 |
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I don’t like the idea of an executive being able to unilaterally postpone an election. The problem is that it takes a legislature with a semblance of sanity. This is how Caesars are made.
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04-06-2020, 06:58 PM | #2939 |
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04-06-2020, 07:36 PM | #2940 | |
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Weird how the strict constructionists who always side with the states to handle things how they want to suddenly don't when it might impact a Republican. Also see Bush v Gore. Never let these phonies push that "strict constructionist" crap on you when they choose justices. |
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04-06-2020, 07:48 PM | #2941 | |
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It's always been a con just like Scalia was always full of it. SI
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04-06-2020, 08:35 PM | #2942 |
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Again, there are people that actually believe the words in the Constitution matter, and then there are those who use that belief as an excuse but then don't hold it themselves. It's absurd to claim that such people invalidate the concept itself or play this sort of borderline No True Scotsman thing.
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04-06-2020, 09:26 PM | #2943 | |
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I think most everyone believes the words in the Constitution matter so that's a pretty false claim. How much a particular passage is relevant to a particular situation is open to a lot of interpretation. Over and over, we keep seeing conservative justices trot out language about "state's rights" and "strict constitutionalism" to rule against liberal national causes and then turn around and enforce state laws over liberal local jurisdiction. SI
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04-06-2020, 09:57 PM | #2944 | |
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The modern movement towards taking said words more seriously was and is specifically a reaction to rulings being handed down that generally disregarded said words. Indeed, that has happened even this century in service of so-called liberal causes by so-called conservative justices. It's also a simple matter of logic that generally considering it be 'open to interpretation' how much the words are relevant is a frontal assault on those words mattering. Another option exists; not assuming that those who disagree with us do so because they have no principles, but dealing with their arguments instead of assassinating their motivations. |
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04-06-2020, 10:06 PM | #2945 |
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There was a short period of time when WI courts had ruled that voters did not need a witness signature on their absentee ballot. That has since been overturned so that a witness is required, and now the ELections Administrator has ruled any ballots mailed without a signature won't be counted even if they were mailed when there was no requirement for a signature. Even better, anyone who sent in one of those ballots will not be able to get a new ballot even if you show up at the poll. You just don't get to vote.
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04-07-2020, 07:15 AM | #2946 | ||
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Part of the reason we pay lawyers is that this shit, when done well, requires more than simple logic. The local Boy Scout Troop charters only one bus to go on a popular fishing trip. Over the last couple of years, the bus has gotten very crowded with scouts bringing their camping equipment (tents, etc.) on the bus despite encouragement to have parents and den leaders bring those bulky items in separate vehicles. This year, the Troop posts an announcement: "Due to limited space on the bus going to our boy scout fishing trip, scouts may bring only fishing poles, bait, fishing tackle, and other equipment on the bus." Johnny attempts to bring a backhoe onto the bus. It is, after all, "other equipment," and words matter. Jimmy tries to bring a trolling motor, even though there are no boats on the trip. That is, after all, fishing equipment. Jack just brings his tent and sleeping bag. Other equipment and all that. What about camping chairs in which people will sit to fish? In figuring out what "other equipment" means, does context matter? Does history? Does the intent of the rule? Can reasonable, well-meaning people minds differ over examples like the camping chair? ________________________________________________________ Or, to use a very classic example, say that there is a sign banning vehicles in the park. Someone tries to drive his car in the park. That's easy. The sign forbids it. What about a disabled person in a wheelchair? A disabled person in a motorized wheelchair? Someone who is not disabled who is delivering a wheelchair to someone and pushes it through the park on the way there? Decides to ride it through instead? The city trash trucks to collect refuse from the trash cans? What about a little girl pushing her doll in a stroller? What about a bicycle? Rollerblades? Matchbox cars? A memorial to the city's war dead that includes a tank? http://www.courts.wa.gov/content/les...novehicles.pdf ____________________________________________________ Don't you see? Interpreting language is hard and subtle. Quote:
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04-07-2020, 07:28 AM | #2947 | ||
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Brian hits on some important truth here. The textualist movement was a (IMO) proper reaction to judicial interpretations that went beyond the language of the laws being interpreted. If you read court cases from before the 1980s, you can see a stark difference in the whole approach. You will have cases interpreting statutes that never get around to talking about the text of the statute. It's weird. But, here's the thing. The textualists won! Justice Kagan herself has said "We are all textualists now." We all looked at what Justice Scalia was saying and thought "Hey, that guy's right about this." And liberal judicial activism was pretty much killed. (And, even though I am a political liberal, I think that's a good thing.). And now everything starts and ends with the text. The problem is that the conservative legal movement did not stop there. It simply kept pushing further and further to the right. And now we have entered a world of conservative judicial activism. So it is correct to say that modern (1980s-onward) legal conservatism was a proper and good response to a loosey-goosey liberally-influenced way of judging. And it is also correct to say that the debate has moved on in the last 35 years, and that that framework is no longer the best way to interpret what's happening in 2020 (except to provide historical context). |
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04-07-2020, 03:11 PM | #2949 |
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It's not a legitimate election. 180 polling centers in Milwaukee down to 5.
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