I would love to see the US states use the same counting solution as in France.
About augmenting counting, I do not know much, there can be many solutions to that ranging from the semi technological (hand scanners) to full automation. But, in my opinion, I like to avoid extra complexity in the process.
I like the idea that the checks come from allowing unlimited recounts done on demand by any representative. I am not sure about the French records, but I think the record in the UK was set in the 1800s in a regional election at something like 37 recounts?
Representatives(s) of candidate watching each counting place, should feel free to be little tyrants to make that building do recount after recount until there is no excuse to do more. Its slow, but at the end there is no dispute, and no possibility of cheating.
I am always interested in hearing about people raising awareness.
I spent a few years, off and on, trying to raise interest in such things. Much to my surprise I found nothing going on to rectify this. And few active conversations.
This really did not change among the entire political spectrum from ultra conservatives, to religious, to white suprematists, to centralists, environmentalists, liberals, progressives, socialists ,black lives matters , or environmentalists.
This led me to completely look at American politics as three groups: those who ignore this and are active supporters in political discussions , those that realize this and don’t comment much about it, and those who do not care.
There are conservatives lemmies; the fact you are not on them means you are probably not mega but just old school conservative.
I think a lot of old school conservatives are going caught up in this later in unexpected ways, quite to the surprise of many I am sure, not least to yourself or people here
Two takeaways I noted was that the majority of people censoring these cartoons consider themselves part of Democratic Party.
Every large party has their extremists, I am not attacking them on that.
But people who oppress one group find it easy to change their targets, historically. This is very well documented in many languages and histories.
Which is my second point: many of these will join forces with authoritarians should that happen to their government ; and do it openly, some will have what the them are good arguments.
And it’s not only anti Palestinians, pro Israeli.
There will be a lot of new political bedfellows, and it’s going to surprise many.
King wrote this in the 1960s, but it applies equally to fascism today
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
The trepidation of news sources, or even most social media, to call it deliberate sabotage, gives them cover.
The majority of the American public does not deal at all with this level of tech. And the small percentage of people who understand can not influence anything.
It’s a sneaky way to shut down social security. Everyone in Doge knows it will break the system. Really break it. And that is bad, of course ( there is a but here)
But I think it’s brilliant to do it this way because 95% of the people reading the news do not see the ramifications. And will not see it later, they will know it’s gone but how? Why? It’s so complicated!
The American public is really gullible, and this gives enough political cover to avoid the oft stated “gone too far” mantra about disabling social security.
Or if ruthless native oligarchs were trying a power grab to control the country for the next generation.