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who'd have thought orange county ca would ever be blue...
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wease wrote:Who fucking uses ballots that require you to color in the circle anymore? How 1960s. And stupid.
I mean, the ballots here in WA are like that. The difference being that they are all mail ballots and I have about a month to figure out who I'm going to vote for and don't have to cross anything out.

Also: You have a 50% chance of voting for the person you want, how do you screw that up? Get a brain, morans.
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McParadigm wrote:Fuckin Florida, man.
Lol
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doug rr wrote:who'd have thought orange county ca would ever be blue...
a sad day for commiefornia
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BurtReynolds wrote:
doug rr wrote:who'd have thought orange county ca would ever be blue...
a sad day for commiefornia
i can't believe he's coming here tomorrow..
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doug rr wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
doug rr wrote:who'd have thought orange county ca would ever be blue...
a sad day for commiefornia
i can't believe he's coming here tomorrow..
Too bad he can't take the high speed rail.
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bune wrote:
wease wrote:Who fucking uses ballots that require you to color in the circle anymore? How 1960s. And stupid.
I mean, the ballots here in WA are like that. The difference being that they are all mail ballots and I have about a month to figure out who I'm going to vote for and don't have to cross anything out.

Also: You have a 50% chance of voting for the person you want, how do you screw that up? Get a brain, morans.
My thought was if the person counting them didn’t like who you voted for, they could cross it out and color in the circle for the other candidate. Just like in the pic. Too big a chance of chicanery with that type ballot.
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wease wrote:
bune wrote:
wease wrote:Who fucking uses ballots that require you to color in the circle anymore? How 1960s. And stupid.
I mean, the ballots here in WA are like that. The difference being that they are all mail ballots and I have about a month to figure out who I'm going to vote for and don't have to cross anything out.

Also: You have a 50% chance of voting for the person you want, how do you screw that up? Get a brain, morans.
My thought was if the person counting them didn’t like who you voted for, they could cross it out and color in the circle for the other candidate. Just like in the pic. Too big a chance of chicanery with that type ballot.
I'm pretty sure they're machine-counted first, and when there's a recount they have a group of people examine each individual ballot so there's none of that foolishness. Do other people not feed your own ballot into the machine?
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BurtReynolds wrote:
McParadigm wrote:Fuckin Florida, man.
Lol
That's a vote for Rick Scott. They're trying to cross out their vote for Bill Nelson.

And NC uses this kind of ballot. I never imagined people would have such trouble.
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Thanks for explaining the joke B
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Simple Torture wrote:
wease wrote:
bune wrote:
wease wrote:Who fucking uses ballots that require you to color in the circle anymore? How 1960s. And stupid.
I mean, the ballots here in WA are like that. The difference being that they are all mail ballots and I have about a month to figure out who I'm going to vote for and don't have to cross anything out.

Also: You have a 50% chance of voting for the person you want, how do you screw that up? Get a brain, morans.
My thought was if the person counting them didn’t like who you voted for, they could cross it out and color in the circle for the other candidate. Just like in the pic. Too big a chance of chicanery with that type ballot.
I'm pretty sure they're machine-counted first, and when there's a recount they have a group of people examine each individual ballot so there's none of that foolishness. Do other people not feed your own ballot into the machine?
We don’t use paper ballots. We press buttons for whichever candidate we want to vote for.
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maybe the GA governor will be implicated in fraud and go to jail

then who gets to be governor
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wease wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
wease wrote:
bune wrote:
wease wrote:Who fucking uses ballots that require you to color in the circle anymore? How 1960s. And stupid.
I mean, the ballots here in WA are like that. The difference being that they are all mail ballots and I have about a month to figure out who I'm going to vote for and don't have to cross anything out.

Also: You have a 50% chance of voting for the person you want, how do you screw that up? Get a brain, morans.
My thought was if the person counting them didn’t like who you voted for, they could cross it out and color in the circle for the other candidate. Just like in the pic. Too big a chance of chicanery with that type ballot.
I'm pretty sure they're machine-counted first, and when there's a recount they have a group of people examine each individual ballot so there's none of that foolishness. Do other people not feed your own ballot into the machine?
We don’t use paper ballots. We press buttons for whichever candidate we want to vote for.
Because that's so much more secure.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
wease wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
wease wrote:
bune wrote:
wease wrote:Who fucking uses ballots that require you to color in the circle anymore? How 1960s. And stupid.
I mean, the ballots here in WA are like that. The difference being that they are all mail ballots and I have about a month to figure out who I'm going to vote for and don't have to cross anything out.

Also: You have a 50% chance of voting for the person you want, how do you screw that up? Get a brain, morans.
My thought was if the person counting them didn’t like who you voted for, they could cross it out and color in the circle for the other candidate. Just like in the pic. Too big a chance of chicanery with that type ballot.
I'm pretty sure they're machine-counted first, and when there's a recount they have a group of people examine each individual ballot so there's none of that foolishness. Do other people not feed your own ballot into the machine?
We don’t use paper ballots. We press buttons for whichever candidate we want to vote for.
Because that's so much more secure.
Why wouldn’t it be?
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McParadigm wrote:Now at 35 gains in the House. That was the highest end for predictions going in. Six or seven (?) seats still uncalled.
37
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why does this still say 47 - 51 for the senate?

what other than FL is still outstanding?

https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/senate
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96583UP wrote:why does this still say 47 - 51 for the senate?

what other than FL is still outstanding?

https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/senate
Missidsippi is going to have a run-off because no one got more than 50%.
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wow

this is like not really in the news

of course half of CA is on fire

but like where is this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
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it's refreshing that there are republicans who are actually still offended by this

take that white nationalist news buzz stereotypes
Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith stumbled recently when, in praise of a supporter, she spoke of her willingness to sit in the front row of a public hanging if he invited her — words that, in the South, evoked images of lynchings. She has struggled to grapple with the fallout, baffling members of her party and causing even faithful Republicans to consider voting for her opponent, former congressman Mike Espy.
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can i donate to a senate campaign from out of state?

i assume FL will go Red bc Floridians are one small step below 'bag of urinal cakes' in the vegas odds for next nobel prize winner

misssissississiisiiisssiiisppppi still has hope
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