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Yeah :( Big sad, both for you as a citizen of the US (I presume), and for me, as someone under the thumb of the US’s sphere of influence.

Stay safe out there next week. I’m presume it’s gonna get wild.

Y’all need to unify your federal election into an actual federal election. Not 50 separate ones.

It would be a lot harder to pick and choose battleground states for lawsuits if you 1. Change the voting system yes, but also and importantly 2. Have consistent rules and voting infrastructure across the whole country.

Having to understand 50 separate election rules makes it way easier to sow doubt.

I am aware there are also some federal laws on voting, but still.

We’re seeing in real-time why maintaining a coherent, unified, transparent voting system and communicating how and why it’s secure against tampering is so important. It needs to be difficult to sow doubt in the election, and you can only achieve this through simple to understand and explain methods.

Because if the average person can be convinced it’s not secure and legitimate, then it doesn’t matter what the reality is.

This is why I’m so sick of people pointing out the defamation lawsuits from the voting machine companies as some kind of win for the democratic process.

Voting machines have been just one of the many ways the Republicans have sown doubt over the results. Stop using voting machines, obviously (in my opinion. There’s also 2 great videos from Tom Scott on the topic)

Important things to get right:

• functioning, reliable postal system. (Trump did a great job on undermining this)
• unified electoral communication so that every place has the same election, not bloody 50 separate ones with wildly different practices. (Well shit, constitution needs to be amended)
• a simple voting recording method anyone can understand. (Voting machines are bad, simply because they’re too much of a security risk and black box that can have doubt sown very easily)
• consistent invigilation
• courts that aren’t stacked (good luck with this one, though)

And obvious move away from FPTP, but everyone is already calling for that.

Armchair citizen under the American empire, giving you my 2¢.

Here’s the link to the actual speech from Sanders: https://youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY

I came to the Politics community 9 hours after it was posted to find discussion. Nothing.

Personally I feel an exception should be made when the news is literally just a video, why wait for a journalist to regurgitate it in written form?

Anyway

RCV in single member electorates is pretty meh, and yeah RCV in general has its issues. But saying it’s “slightly better” than FPTP is a MASSIVE understatement.

Change begets change, don’t be against changing to something much better, just because it isn’t perfect.

The dusters won’t take him. Better just leave him in space

The number of people he’s said he hates or called names because they’ve either supported the Harris campaign, or spoken against his, seems to be quite a lot.

Baffles me that anyone could look on and think, “hmm yes, this guy seems socially intelligent”, is beyond me.

In other countries, not only would the voter suppression be illegal, but racial hate speech would also land this fucker in jail.

Our of curiosity, and because I couldn’t immediately find anything. Is MoveOn actively trying to change the voting system itself?

Yikes 😬

What fucking year is it in these people’s minds? 1600?

It’s wild, and telling, what they think are smears.

It’s absolutely wild that raising the minimum wage needs to be legislated every time. Other countries just appoint a body that has the authority to increase it every year based on XYZ, no legislation required.

It’s very depressing, also for those of us in the imperial sphere of countries. Because we’re beholden to US foreign policy, and the worse the US gets, the more dangerous it is for us.

I mean, we (Australia) already we’re doing war crimes for the US in Afghanistan (look up David McBride, the Australian military lawyer), already buying $300 subs as some kind of tributary payment, already followed you into dozens of wars we had no business being a part of, I truly worry for what’s next under a more corrupt US regime.

Yikes.

It’s also much harder to claim fraud when there is none (provided your auditing and multiple independent oversight is good).

Y’all need to just stop it with voting machines USA. Pencil and paper is far more secure.

I’m not doubting that trump wasn’t elected, reality has a left-wing bias, but damn, what if voting machines are hacked, or have a backdoor built-in in the future.

Pencil and paper folks, it just works.

I’m an engineer (a non-IT engineer) and have 4. There is so much ensuring consistency between drawings and documents. I’d like 5 (including the inbuilt one) but graphics card on my high performance company laptop says no.

At least one for file explorer, then other three could be pdf editor, or word, or excel, or internet browser.

I regularly have 4 drawings open, plus another reference, plus windows explorer for file management.

It’s never enough. I could totally do with more than 4 screens, I’m already squeezing multiple drawings onto one monitor.

Yikes. Yeah, understandable that nothing has changed. That sucks :/

Hey US, here’s an idea. Instead of having elected representatives sign off on electoral districts, you can instead pass a law to create electoral commissions who’s job it is, and define in the law how often redistricting should take place, what methods should be used, etc, etc.

The officials at the electoral Commission are bound by the law you set out (and presumably the extremely harsh punishments for not following the law).

This is where you define electoral boundry changes. Not via bespoke legislation where it gets gerrymandered.

A lot of other countries have figured this out, just sayin’.