I will be working at the polls today, 11:00am to 7:00pm and possibly later, if needed. I'll be checking in citizens half the time and tending the ballot box the other half. We have a new ballot machine that accepts completed ballots with a ping. No ping means there's a message for the voter! It may say that the ballot wasn't completely filled out or there is an error. The voter gets to push a red button to get their ballot back and a green button to have it counted "as is." I love that!
Our system has a printer with a touch screen. If the ballot is not completely filled out, there is an alert and the voter can go back to correct or click print. The printer spits out a printed paper ballot which one can read to validate and then deposit in the counter. 2020 was the first time for that system, so the SoS was quite content to have several audits?LoL The election was anomalous in that 20,000 voters took ballots and failed to vote for president, though they did vote for Republicans further down the ballot. Another 38,000 voted for the Libertarian female candidate. That's another indicator of the mood of the electorate that Republicans do not want to admit. Come November Alabama will elect a female governor, either the incumbent or a Democrat.
In Vermont, we are given three ballots and can choose any ONE to fill out. We place our completed ballot into the ballot box ourselves, and the other two into a holding box. Works great.
It has been so long since I voted in our primary that I have forgotten what and whom I voted for and against! I was cleaning off my desk the other day and tossed my sample ballot into the trash.
Remember that Sandy Berger went to prison for taking a document he had authored out of the Archives. The U.S. legal system is very materialistic and protecting property is high on the agenda. So, for example, war protesters were prosecuted for pouring blood on files and, more recently, for cutting a padlock. And, yes, shoplifters get more punishment than financial cheats because dollars are worthless chits. For fraud to be charged there has to be verbal (usually written) deceit. In a sense, Donald getting rid of documents is evidence that he knows the difference between spoken words (which cannot hurt him) and what he has written. I still think he has a cognitive disability and those around him accommodate his handicap. LIV golf courses are called that because they grant a 54 handicap so hackers can compete with professionals.
Rachel Maddow on the FBI Mar-a-Lago search [Click] Clear and concise. If the FBI goes in looking for evidence of Federal Crime A, find it, and also encounter evidence of Federal Crime B, the DOJ can make use of both; they are fair game.
This does sound a good deal more serious than "just" tax fraud in New York and attempted ballot box stuffing in Georgia. Collusion with a foreign power would certainly fill the bill. It seems to me that the only rational arguments against Trump fleeing the country in his recently refurbished Boeing 757 would be the probability that no country in the world would give him political asylum, or that he couldn't abide the restrictions that would come with it. Interesting times.
Here is the scientific article. [Click] It seems that European Upper Paleolithic technology was introduced to North America about 16,000 years BP, but there is genomic evidence of humans in North America as much as 56,000 years BP. Thus two different clades of humans may have arrived very far apart in time. The first seems to have left no genetic evidence in North America, but considerable evidence in South America.
“As many as 80,000 Russian troops have been wounded or killed in less than six months of fighting in Ukraine, the Pentagon said Monday, the first time the U.S. military announced its estimates of the toll of the invasion on Russia,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
The total Russian invasion force was 190,000. 80/190 X 100 = 42% casualties. US units are pulled out of the line when they have 20% or 25% (I forget which) casualties, at which point they are considered combat ineffective.
The most important Mars rock ever? [Click] Mudstone. But it won’t be brought back to earth for eleven years. I hope I live long enough to hear what they find in it.
Hey all... I got home just over an hour ago, famished and spent...but it was totally worth it!!
Peter Welch looks to have gotten about 67% of the vote for Senate, and Becca Balint about 60% for House! YAY!! On the Progressive ballot there were only 7 names in all. On the Republican ballot there were only 12 names in all. On the Democratic ballot there were 33 names.
So, it looks like the Republican Party won't be taking over Vermont any time soon.
And it truly looks like Vermont will FINALLY be sending a woman to Congress!!!
I will be working at the polls today, 11:00am to 7:00pm and possibly later, if needed. I'll be checking in citizens half the time and tending the ballot box the other half. We have a new ballot machine that accepts completed ballots with a ping. No ping means there's a message for the voter! It may say that the ballot wasn't completely filled out or there is an error. The voter gets to push a red button to get their ballot back and a green button to have it counted "as is." I love that!
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting; never heard of it before.
DeleteOur system has a printer with a touch screen. If the ballot is not completely filled out, there is an alert and the voter can go back to correct or click print. The printer spits out a printed paper ballot which one can read to validate and then deposit in the counter.
Delete2020 was the first time for that system, so the SoS was quite content to have several audits?LoL
The election was anomalous in that 20,000 voters took ballots and failed to vote for president, though they did vote for Republicans further down the ballot.
Another 38,000 voted for the Libertarian female candidate. That's another indicator of the mood of the electorate that Republicans do not want to admit.
Come November Alabama will elect a female governor, either the incumbent or a Democrat.
In Vermont, we are given three ballots and can choose any ONE to fill out. We place our completed ballot into the ballot box ourselves, and the other two into a holding box. Works great.
ReplyDeleteThree ballots for three parties? I should have thought that you would have more than that.
DeleteWe welcome all parties!
DeleteThe more ballots the better.
Seems I'm the last among us to vote in a Primary this year...!
ReplyDeleteIt has been so long since I voted in our primary that I have forgotten what and whom I voted for and against! I was cleaning off my desk the other day and tossed my sample ballot into the trash.
DeleteNew Hamshire's regular primary is in September. It is only the presidential primary that is first in the nation.
DeleteReviewing news about Vermont primary voting, I don's see any mention of propositions. Does Vermont have voter approved propositions?
DeleteHannah! I keep forgetting you're in NH! Somehow I keep thinking you're in Georgia...but is that where your daughter lives?
DeleteMSNBC: Trump's Lawyer Should Advise Him He's 'Looking At Jail Time' Says Katyal [Click] Gee.
ReplyDeleteMary Trump: Trump Is 'Panicked' After FBI Search Of Mar-a-Lago [Click]
MSNBC: 'Trump Is Clearly The Target': FBI Veteran Breaks Down Mar-a-Lago Raid [Click]
Remember that Sandy Berger went to prison for taking a document he had authored out of the Archives.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. legal system is very materialistic and protecting property is high on the agenda. So, for example, war protesters were prosecuted for pouring blood on files and, more recently, for cutting a padlock. And, yes, shoplifters
get more punishment than financial cheats because dollars are worthless chits. For fraud to be charged there has to be verbal (usually written) deceit.
In a sense, Donald getting rid of documents is evidence that he knows the difference between spoken words (which cannot hurt him) and what he has written.
I still think he has a cognitive disability and those around him accommodate his handicap.
LIV golf courses are called that because they grant a 54 handicap so hackers can compete with professionals.
Trump [Has Been] Searching for Criminal Defense Lawyers [Click]
ReplyDeleteHere’s the headline from the source article: Inside Trump’s Frantic Hunt for ‘Killer’ Criminal Defense Attorneys [Click] “High on the president’s list is a long-time MAGA ally best known for defending a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes”
DeleteRachel Maddow on the FBI Mar-a-Lago search [Click] Clear and concise. If the FBI goes in looking for evidence of Federal Crime A, find it, and also encounter evidence of Federal Crime B, the DOJ can make use of both; they are fair game.
ReplyDeleteThis does sound a good deal more serious than "just" tax fraud in New York and attempted ballot box stuffing in Georgia. Collusion with a foreign power would certainly fill the bill. It seems to me that the only rational arguments against Trump fleeing the country in his recently refurbished Boeing 757 would be the probability that no country in the world would give him political asylum, or that he couldn't abide the restrictions that would come with it. Interesting times.
DeleteSummary of Major James Webb Galactic Discoveries That Nobody Expected [Click]
ReplyDelete37,000 Year Old Evidence Of Humans In North America [Click]
ReplyDeleteHere is the scientific article. [Click] It seems that European Upper Paleolithic technology was introduced to North America about 16,000 years BP, but there is genomic evidence of humans in North America as much as 56,000 years BP. Thus two different clades of humans may have arrived very far apart in time. The first seems to have left no genetic evidence in North America, but considerable evidence in South America.
Wow!
“As many as 80,000 Russian troops have been wounded or killed in less than six months of fighting in Ukraine, the Pentagon said Monday, the first time the U.S. military announced its estimates of the toll of the invasion on Russia,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
ReplyDeleteThe total Russian invasion force was 190,000. 80/190 X 100 = 42% casualties. US units are pulled out of the line when they have 20% or 25% (I forget which) casualties, at which point they are considered combat ineffective.
The most important Mars rock ever? [Click] Mudstone. But it won’t be brought back to earth for eleven years. I hope I live long enough to hear what they find in it.
ReplyDeleteHey all...
ReplyDeleteI got home just over an hour ago, famished and spent...but it was totally worth it!!
Peter Welch looks to have gotten about 67% of the vote for Senate, and Becca Balint about 60% for House! YAY!!
On the Progressive ballot there were only 7 names in all.
On the Republican ballot there were only 12 names in all.
On the Democratic ballot there were 33 names.
So, it looks like the Republican Party won't be taking over Vermont any time soon.
And it truly looks like Vermont will FINALLY be sending a woman to Congress!!!
Peter Welch is up to 87% of the vote with 92% of the vote counted. YAY!!!
DeleteWhat's going on with Governor?
DeleteSpinLaunch [Click] Fascinating space launch system, currently being tested.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Alan
DeleteLead for Stephen Colbert tonight: "Librarians come for the former President"
ReplyDeleteTrump’s Raid Nightmare: The Feds [Have Repeatedly] Indicted The Powerful For Spilling State Secrets [Click] Nice little bit about Christopher Wray.
ReplyDeleteMSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell interviews Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe about FBI search of Mar-a-Lago [Click] “The Obscure Law That Could Mean Big Trouble For Trump”
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