BullBuchanan

Never understood the mania for Chick-fil-a. They were big in florida when I lived there, but I most thought they tasted like microwaved chicken patties. Bland chicken, soggy buns. I just don't get it. I would far prefer Wendy's or even McDonalds crispy chicken sandwich to theirs. Never got to try the Popeye's sandwich, but their regular chicken is great.

I'm not intricately familiar with his play but he seemed to be damn good whenever I saw him play for the titans and he played outside in base formations.

Yet Oregon has done it for decades without issue. You get social security, passports, banking information, drivers licenses, taxes, and absentee ballots by mail, but somehow general ballots are just a bridge too far for people to wrap their heads around. It's gotta be fraud, man - orange man said it. ------------------------------------- Identity verification: The principal method used to detect and prevent fraud is the mail ballot envelope itself, where each voter must include personal identifying information (such as address, birthday, and driver’s license number or last four digits of a Social Security number). In most states, that information includes a signature that can be used to match against the voter rolls. The voter’s remaining personal information is also matched against the information stored on the voter rolls. As Kim Wyman, Washington’s Republican secretary of state, explained, “we actually compare every single signature of every single ballot that comes in and we compare it and make sure that it matches the one on their voter registration record.” This is a long-standing and well-established practice to ensure that the ballot received was indeed cast by the correct voter. It’s important to note though that there are best and worst practices with signature matching. When done incorrectly, it can disenfranchise eligible voters. Done correctly — with signature matching software, bipartisan review by officials trained in signature verification, and outreach to flagged voters — it is an effective deterrent for fraud. Bar codes: Most election jurisdictions now use some form of bar code on their ballot envelopes. These bar codes allow election officials to keep track of ballot processing and help voters know whether their ballot has been received. Bar codes also allow states to identify and eliminate duplicate ballots if a voter casts more than one, whether mistakenly or corruptly. Ballot tracking through the U.S. Postal Service: In many jurisdictions, including California, Colorado and Florida, ballot envelopes are equipped with intelligent mail bar codes linked to the postal service that enable voters and election officials alike to track an envelope from drop-off to delivery and processing at the local administrator’s office. Denver’s elections division reported that 17,931 people used its system to track the status of their ballots during the November 2013 election. While relatively new, these ballot tracking systems are now readily available and are easily operable at scale. This way, if a voter says they never received their ballot, states can better determine whether the ballot was delivered, replace the ballot as appropriate, and ensure the original is flagged as compromised and not counted. Secure drop-off locations and drop boxes: Multiple ballot return options limit the opportunity for ballot tampering by fostering voter independence in returning a ballot. A common layer of security to ensure that ballots are not stolen or tampered with — at least for voters who can leave their homes — is secure drop-off locations. In places where all or most voters receive ballots by mail, many voters do not mail completed ballots; rather, they opt to drop their ballots off at secure polling sites. According to the Survey of the Performance of American Elections at Harvard University in 2016, 73 percent of voters in Colorado, 59 percent in Oregon, and 65 percent in Washington returned their ballots to some physical location, such as a drop box or local election office. Ballot drop-off locations help maintain a secure chain of custody as the ballot goes from the voter to the local election office. And when drop boxes are put outside of government offices, one security measure is to equip them with security cameras to monitor ballot traffic and ensure that the boxes are not breached. (Drop boxes in government buildings benefit from existing video security systems.) In addition to preventing fraud, secure drop-off locations enable voters to be confident that their ballots will be received on time. Harsh penalties: Anyone who commits voter fraud using a mail ballot risks severe criminal and civil penalties: up to five years in prison and $10,000 in fines for each act of fraud under federal law, in addition to any state penalties. In Oregon, for example, voting with or signing another person’s ballot is a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison. These penalties provide a strong deterrent to voter fraud; it makes no sense to risk such significant punishment for one additional vote. Postelection audits: In 2018, a review of returned absentee ballot records helped identify anomalies in the election results of Bladen County, North Carolina, enabling election officials to uncover election interference by a political operative who stole and tampered with mail ballots. Postelection audits, which many jurisdictions are starting to adopt, would more systematically enable election officials to identify any irregularities or misconduct in the vote. Audits typically use statistical techniques to review a sample of ballots cast in an election to ensure that votes were recorded and tallied accurately. Since audits can only be meaningfully carried out when there is a voter-verified paper record of each vote, mail ballots (which are paper-based), are conducive to effective audits. Postelection audits are already widely used in states that use mail voting and are a best security practice for all elections regardless.

Fake news. https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/campaign/126789-the-truth-about-the-2008-minnesota-senate-recount-a-response-to-democratic-party-still-disenfranchising-and-oppresing-votes

Yes "really". I already looked into all accusations of fraud and found it's statistically insignificant. The burden of truth lies on the accuser. It's not my job to prove that something doesn't exist. Even the most biased of right wrong sources can't prove fraud above a statistically insignificant level. Given how you lot like to frame arguments, I don't expect you to come up with much more than a tweet or a talking head in response.

Why is that a problem?

I have data, you have gifs. Keep on living down to my expectations.

Let me explain it to you slower, so that maybe you can understand. In 2016, ~66 MILLION people voted Democrat in the Presidential election. There are not 66 million people "rioting in the streets" If there were, Trump wouldn't be here anymore.

I love how they are unrelated.

I love how people think that receiving a ballot indicates that just anyone can fill it out and it's going to be accepted - like there's no processing steps whatsoever that look for fraud. I also love how people point to the cases of people being charged with attempted voter fraud as some sort of example that it's a problem, when in reality it's an example of why it's not because they've been caught. If you wanted to make an argument about fraudulent ballots at a smaller scale for something like the local school board, I'd listen to that. When you're talking about statewide and federal elections though, it's always going to be a lot easier to suppress to vote, gerrymander districts and use the news cycle to your advantage. Hell, even having people not record the voting numbers is a bigger issue. Cases of voter fraud are statistically irrelevant in presidential elections.

Yup: https://www.newser.com/story/294404/covid-heart-problem-sidelines-red-sox-pitcher.html The pneumonia you can wrap your head around, but the possibility that is may be a vascular disease is a lot to handle.

Bummer.

CB2 and SLB are probably the weakest, but not really concerned. Not a lot of teams have a great #2.

My folks took up raising chickens a few years back. They're pretty messy, and you have to be careful of predators, but otherwise seem low maintenance. I got used to good quality eggs, and even the high end stuff at the supermarket doesn't come close.

Actually we didn't. See, part of the reason I was so excited for you to get here was so that I could let you make this incorrect leap of logic and watch you fail. Is it as good as I hoped? It's better. To start, it is not being a fraud to participate in a system you did not design and do not prefer when you have no direct individual power to change it. Second of all, every single employee was a member of the family. In essence, we operated as a co-operative.

As compared to the original content? I call a push, at best. I'll do it, though, because I know you hypocrites are soft.

That sweet release...

It's been over 20 and I've worked blue collar to white collar, unskilled to highly specialized, family business to international conglomerate, startup to a company with hundreds of thousands of employees. The only thing I've never really done is work for the government, though I've worked with them.

No, I do not. I think that the current ones are. I really don't think you know very much about the philosophies of the people that founded this country. You would be hard pressed to find many of them aligned to the republican cause today. Madison, Jefferson and Adams in particular.

A good parent doesn't praise a child when they do wrong. They correct it.

Because I'm an American patriot. Why would I move somewhere else and let my own country suffer?

I'm not deflecting anything. I'm just at the finish line waiting for you to get there with your idiotic line of logic. So, let's fast forward through the part where I say yes. Get to the point where you ask me why I participate in capitalism if I'm against it, like a ***** idiot. I'm dying for it.

Come on, I know you can get there. I'm waiting kiddo

You would be extremely incorrect, yet again. I've been working since I was 12.

Yes. Do you know what his organization would be worth if daddy stuck the $200M+ he left behind in the S&P 500 instead of letting donnie manage it? He would have vastly more wealth if all he did was literally nothing. That's how ***** of a businessman he is that he can't beat a 7% ROI with a $200M head start.