mrcleanup @ mrcleanup @lemmy.world

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Wait, there are people that don't press Ctrl?

Four months until the actual election, not four months before people have to start planning for it. The logistics of finalizing, printing, and distributing materials for a nationwide election isn't something that happens in a few weeks. It's a lot less than four months until decisions need to be final and things need to be moving forward.

Fair enough.

Maybe, but that's because the rest of us did think he was to old. One doesn't invalidate the other.

If Biden is on the ballot, I will vote for him. I also want him off.

But, frankly, we need to scare the pants off the Democratic party if there is going to be any chance they change their behavior.

Where are the five great younger candidates they have have been fostering to be ready for something like this? Nowhere, because they keep putting all their effort into one entrenched candidate and then force them through no matter what. Look how disastrous it was when they kept pushing Hillary when Bernie was doing so well, she lost. Now so many people are saying "no" to Biden, what should we expect will happen?

If history is our judge, we're going to lose, whether we can afford to or not. Because even if we supported Biden right now with solidarity, a lot of people are going to not vote for him, whether we like it or not.

Would it be better if the Democratic party didn't see how unhappy people were and we all pretended it would be ok and told them we would just vote for any candidate they give us no matter how bad?

I dunno, throw Bernie in the ring as the Dem candidate, he could take it.

Start looking at jobs at your local city and county governments. A lot of them still come with actual pensions.

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I wish I had good advice for how to connect with people after the school years, that's just difficult.

If there is one lesson I could teach my younger self, it would be to have several low commitment relationships while I was younger to learn what is "normal". Once you start making murder pacts, it's usually too late.

Not if you cut the power.

I mean, yeah, they all are.

It's all about property rights here. You can always just make more people, right?

Yeah, they agreed with you. Their point is that they agreed with you. Sometimes people just share their thoughts and aren't trying to start a fight.

Gotta milk that sweet sweet social media engagement.

People have tried to poll me. I ask them to remove my number from their list. I'm not sure exactly sure who they are polling, but it's mainly people who want to be part of polling, which I assume skews the results.

Is that because the only people hand counting now are regressives?

There's usually a four prong power connector on the top left corner of the motherboard. I always forget that one, nothing works without it plugged in too.

Every state has it's own laws and every set of equipment is a little different, so each county can be a little different too , but the basics are that you pull a few scan batches, count them by hand, and then compare to what the computer says. If the two ever don't match, you know you have a problem and you count again to make sure the problem wasn't the humans recounting. Then you check to make sure they weren't scanned wrong. If you still have a problem after that, the auditor should be calling the secretary of state as fast as they can and I would guess the goal would be to get a new tabulator in there ASAP to start fresh on a completely different system.

With regard to machines with no paper trail, counties can choose to be as OCD or laid back as the law and their elected official (the auditor) wants them to be; the auditor is theoretically there to represent the interests of the people and make sure the system is trustworthy.

I'm my county the April election was small enough that they ended up recounting every single ballot as part off the audit since it was only about 200 ballots for one taxing district.

You should also be able to observe if you want to, contact your county and ask how to get on the list and you can observe first-hand exactly how they do it.

I'll also point out before I go, that the audits of the machine show that the system looks to be working right, but when you batch audit a hand count all you can do is verify that one batch because humans are not a consistent process.

They couldn't even hand count an election of 127 people correctly. Imagine how big the errors would have been with thousands of votes.

The fact is that this isn't being counted by full time well-trained accountants, but by temporary and on-call employees at best, and lots of them are retirees, who can afford not to have a full-time gig.

Hand counting requires more blind faith trust than a machine you can easily audit at any time.

It's not just about the speed, it's about an inhuman level of consistency and memory that the machine provides.