Posted on 11/13/2015 7:04:58 PM PST by Jim Robinson
“sad to say it probably takes a like attack here before the masses wake up...”
Ahhh, we kinda had a little event once. How many woke up from the World Trade Towers being demolished, the Pentagon hit and 3000 lives lost?
What is really SAD is the glaring lack of the American fighting spirit!
Where is it? The World wonders.
Don't be silly. Rules don't apply to democrats. You should know that by now.
Our challeneg as is to temporairly set aside our individual aspirations so as to form common cause. Not just in the cyber span Jim Robinson has provided but also in phyiscal space.
Folks, pardon my ignorance if this is common knowledge or been previously attempted; but, we have got to start meeting up in person and becoming a political entity.
One thing that sucks about the current state of affairs is that conservatives censor themselves in public liberals to not usually and when they go off they go all in. Pandering like no tomorrow occurs.
I believe with the new generation of knowledge/information system we can start to produce a methodology of going on the offfensive and having great arguments to counter the talking points of the left.
For me I imagine one of the reasons I'm a conservative at its most basic level is I don't want people bothering me. I got my stuff I want to do, the stuff I have to do and honestly I want to be left alone.
For some reason perhaps the finite amount of time we have here this leave me alone has become a core construct that allows the rest of my liberty and creativity to occur.
By definition to become activist we must give up our free time and invade the conformt space of others to shake the bad fruit out of the idea tree.
Naturally we suck at this - we need help and I think we can find this help in the form of technology which if folks are interested I'd be happy to think and expond on what that looks like.
We can bring our diverse set of talents and respect for our individuallity together to become a polical force multiplier.
As we argue and advocate for our favorite candidates in this cycle. Lets also be forming the structure and process to work together in a no intrusive, joyous fashion - to fight for the American cause, the mission statement of this site.
You are here because you love this country, lets try to think how we can work together to make it happen
There are 46 democrats in the Senate, that’s 12 more votes for acquittal than Obama would need, what McConnell thinks would be irrelevant.
That drunk Biden is not much of a prize anyway, I’d impeach him first. Then Paul Ryan would be President, that would suit me fine but he’s not popular around here.
The duration of the civil war?
Don’t worry Jim. Generation XBox has clicked on the FaceBook button to change their Idolicons to show solidarity with France.
That’s gonna fix everything.
Except - wasn’t France the Socialist Utopia that was a shining example of, well, everything?
What do they need us for — funding?
In an honest America, leading Senators of both parties would have called for Obama’s resignation long ago.
You said: "Don't be silly. Rules don't apply to democrats. You should know that by now."
What I do know is how elections are held - what must happen to bring that about. Many people think voting just happens on a few early voting days and election day and that's that. They don't realize the tremendous work that must happen months before an election so they can walk in and vote.
There are mechanics that must happen well before an election and that is why there is a deadline for filing for office. Once the sign up period is over, these mechanics in every state starts and no more candidates can sign up due to printing costly paper ballots for regular voting if voting machines are not used, and millions more paper ballots used for voting by mail which cannot, of course, be done on machines, and all provisional ballots are paper ballots, and the cost of preparing millions of voting machines.
You say rules don't apply to Democrats but the individual states would have to agree to junk the rules and reprint ballots and change machines and no red conservative state would agree to that for a freaking Democrat candidate.
My husband was a Republican County Chair and we had a Republican candidate running for county judge. He died during the campaign season but his name could not be taken off the ballot just as no name could be added. Even dead, this Republican man almost beat the live Democrat candidate.
Now, there is also a deadline for write in candidates and it is later than the deadline for party candidates. If Biden signed up to be a write in, on the voting machine his name would not be listed with the others on the ballot on the machine. There would be a place to punch to open a window for write in candidates. The names would be listed and the voter would have to type in the name of Biden.
A side note; You would be surprised how voters can screw up writing in the name of a candidate, especially if paper ballots are used, and how they can screw up just checking the names they want that are printed on paper ballots.
The night of an election, in Central Counting, in every county, there is a Resolution Committee. If a machine kicks out a paper ballot (remember, even machine voting counties have paper ballots for mail in ballots and provisional ballots). A counting machine will kick out a paper ballot if the choice of candidates can't be determined. Workers at a counting machine go through the paper ballots and they take out any ballot that is physically unable to go through the machine.
These ballots are delivered to the Resolution Committee to try to determine who the voter wanted as his/her choice. I was on numerous of those committees through a number of years.
Our rule for determining who the voter meant to vote for a write in candidate, was, did any part of the writing include any letters contained in any write in candidate's name, and were those letters in only one write in candidate's name so it had to be him/her the voter intended. If the voter wrote only the first name of the write in candidate, did that first name only apply to one write in candidate? If the last name was all that was written, was there only one write in with that last name? If the names were misspelled, that didn't matter as long as we knew what that name was. We also had the usual "Mickey Mouse", etc., as write in names but Mickey never won.
You would also be surprised how many paper ballots in general were mutilated and we had to fill out a new ballot for them that would go through the counting machine. Some had holes in them, some were torn, some had every candidate for an office marked out with an "X", or line drawn through them, and one of them hand written beside that group. Some had every candidate checked with a circle around one.
When we had to make a new ballot for a voter, one person of one political party would do the checking of the candidates as two people of the other party watched the checking being done. After that, as chairman of that committee, I had to sign my name on the back of the new ballot and write the number of the faulty ballot there, then sign my name on the faulty ballot along with the number of the new one, then paper clip them together and it was taken to the workers operating the counting machine.
Not many people know that each ballot actually is considered important and how much effort goes into protecting a voter's right to vote for his/her choice and get that vote counted.
That’s a state, not a national election involving all states.
If the SCOTUS declined to get involved in the shenanigans in NJ, what makes you think they'd play it differently in any of the other 49 states?
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