pos 'pubs being complete pieces of crap

[michigancat]

Markey's just doing what his constituents elected him to do, but I bet you could talk him down to targeted relief.

[chum1]

Maybe Markey should try to meet pubs in the middle so that the rich get some tax cuts and no one else gets anything.

[star seed 7]

No better way to stimulate the economy than tax cuts for rich people

[Rage Against the McKee]

https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1311723874179047425

[star seed 7]

There are 4.7 million people in Harris County, what a completely transparent move. Disgusting.

[Spracne]

Maybe one of you educated cats can help me out here, but the Texas drop-off location thing confuses me. Sure, it looks dubious on its face. What I want to know is how many people actually use them, and why? Comparing the population of Harris County (Houston) to entire states is great and all, but that's not a real indicator of how this change will impact voting. Who are the people who request (and are granted) a mail-in ballot and, instead of just dropping it in the mail, drive to a designated drop-off location?? I have to assume postage is pre-paid, so it's not a matter of not having a stamp. I tried to get a mail-in ballot in 2016, and the voting commissioner told me to eff right off.

[ChiComCat]

Maybe one of you educated cats can help me out here, but the Texas drop-off location thing confuses me. Sure, it looks dubious on its face. What I want to know is how many people actually use them, and why? Comparing the population of Harris County (Houston) to entire states is great and all, but that's not a real indicator of how this change will impact voting. Who are the people who request (and are granted) a mail-in ballot and, instead of just dropping it in the mail, drive to a designated drop-off location?? I have to assume postage is pre-paid, so it's not a matter of not having a stamp. I tried to get a mail-in ballot in 2016, and the voting commissioner told me to eff right off.

Voters who believe that the USPS is a rough ridin' mess, whether purposefully or not, and want to make sure their vote counts.  Also people who might not turn their ballots in until a week out and, again, don't trust the USPS to get it counted in time given that Republicans are trying to pass bills saying ballots should be counted same day or not at all. I don't buy your theory that population isn't an indicator. either  Population centers in TX are largely Democrat strongholds and now probably have the shittiest person to drop off location ratio. 

Trump was complaining about not having poll watchers for non-voting location drop offs and Texas jumped to attention.  If they want to allow poll watchers that follow the rules, fine, but there are plenty of dipshit Trumpers in Texas to monitor those 12 locations.

[michigancat]

Maybe one of you educated cats can help me out here, but the Texas drop-off location thing confuses me. Sure, it looks dubious on its face. What I want to know is how many people actually use them, and why? Comparing the population of Harris County (Houston) to entire states is great and all, but that's not a real indicator of how this change will impact voting. Who are the people who request (and are granted) a mail-in ballot and, instead of just dropping it in the mail, drive to a designated drop-off location?? I have to assume postage is pre-paid, so it's not a matter of not having a stamp. I tried to get a mail-in ballot in 2016, and the voting commissioner told me to eff right off.

spracs did you follow the news about the post office while you were gone

[Trim]

We only have "mail-in" ballots here; you don't request one.  It gets mailed to us automatically.  There's a return, postage-paid envelope you can mail it back in, but there's also boxes all over town.  I almost always drop mine off in one of the boxes; I just feel better knowing it's going through a process exclusive to the election rather than it mingling with all the other work the postal service has to do.

[Spracne]

Maybe one of you educated cats can help me out here, but the Texas drop-off location thing confuses me. Sure, it looks dubious on its face. What I want to know is how many people actually use them, and why? Comparing the population of Harris County (Houston) to entire states is great and all, but that's not a real indicator of how this change will impact voting. Who are the people who request (and are granted) a mail-in ballot and, instead of just dropping it in the mail, drive to a designated drop-off location?? I have to assume postage is pre-paid, so it's not a matter of not having a stamp. I tried to get a mail-in ballot in 2016, and the voting commissioner told me to eff right off.

spracs did you follow the news about the post office while you were gone

Isn't the USPS prioritizing mail-in ballots, now? Anyway, I've lived in Texas for most of my voting life and can honestly say I've never heard about ballot drop-off locations. Were I lucky enough to have a mail-in ballot, that sucker would go straight in the mail. And for the paranoid crowd, HOW CAN YOU BE SURE YOUR VOTE IS GOING TO GET COUNTED EVEN IF YOU DROP IT OFF?!?

I was hoping someone could make a compelling case for not mailing your mail-in ballot, and then connect the dots to how this harms dems/benefits pubs. Distrust of the postal service is one possible explanation, I guess. Wouldn't move the needle for me personally, though.

[steve dave]

I put mine out in my mailbox and raise the little flag letting society know that I have mail that needs to be mailed.

[chum1]

I was hoping someone could make a compelling case f

I didn't read what you were hoping for. What is happening, though, is that Republicans are looking to prevent as much voting as they can in as many ways as they can and hope that all of these little things might add up to help them should they need it.

[Rage Against the McKee]

You were hoping someone should make a compelling case that the governor should not close down drop off locations that were already set up? Why not ask for a compelling case to close them down?

[Trim]

HOW CAN YOU BE SURE YOUR VOTE IS GOING TO GET COUNTED EVEN IF YOU DROP IT OFF?!?

It's tracked.

[Spracne]

I was hoping someone could make a compelling case f

I didn't read what you were hoping for. What is happening, though, is that Republicans are looking to prevent as much voting as they can in as many ways as they can and hope that all of these little things might add up to help them should they need it.

Seems awfully dumb if there's a 50/50 shot that it hurts you more than it helps. Perhaps the thinking is that this will have an impact, if at all, in large metropolitan centers, which skew more blue. Still, I'd just drop that little guy in outgoing mail and go on living my life.

[sys]

I was hoping someone could make a compelling case f

I didn't read what you were hoping for. What is happening, though, is that Republicans are looking to prevent as much voting as they can in as many ways as they can and hope that all of these little things might add up to help them should they need it.

Seems awfully dumb if there's a 50/50 shot that it hurts you more than it helps. Perhaps the thinking is that this will have an impact, if at all, in large metropolitan centers, which skew more blue. Still, I'd just drop that little guy in outgoing mail and go on living my life.

yes, it should disproportionally impact dems 1) because it's harder to get to one drop box per county in a county with 4 million people than in one with 4k people and dems are strongly concentrated in the populous counties, and 2) dems are using mail in ballots at a much higher rate than 'pubs in 2020 because trump has spent 6 months messaging that mail in ballots are incompatible with democracy.

somewhat counterbalanced by texas restricting no-excuse mail in ballots to those over 65, which will skew republican.  but i'm sure abbott's people have done the math.

[michigancat]

Maybe one of you educated cats can help me out here, but the Texas drop-off location thing confuses me. Sure, it looks dubious on its face. What I want to know is how many people actually use them, and why? Comparing the population of Harris County (Houston) to entire states is great and all, but that's not a real indicator of how this change will impact voting. Who are the people who request (and are granted) a mail-in ballot and, instead of just dropping it in the mail, drive to a designated drop-off location?? I have to assume postage is pre-paid, so it's not a matter of not having a stamp. I tried to get a mail-in ballot in 2016, and the voting commissioner told me to eff right off.

spracs did you follow the news about the post office while you were gone

Isn't the USPS prioritizing mail-in ballots, now? Anyway, I've lived in Texas for most of my voting life and can honestly say I've never heard about ballot drop-off locations. Were I lucky enough to have a mail-in ballot, that sucker would go straight in the mail. And for the paranoid crowd, HOW CAN YOU BE SURE YOUR VOTE IS GOING TO GET COUNTED EVEN IF YOU DROP IT OFF?!?

I was hoping someone could make a compelling case for not mailing your mail-in ballot, and then connect the dots to how this harms dems/benefits pubs. Distrust of the postal service is one possible explanation, I guess. Wouldn't move the needle for me personally, though.

it doesn't seem like you were paying attention

[Spracne]

Maybe one of you educated cats can help me out here, but the Texas drop-off location thing confuses me. Sure, it looks dubious on its face. What I want to know is how many people actually use them, and why? Comparing the population of Harris County (Houston) to entire states is great and all, but that's not a real indicator of how this change will impact voting. Who are the people who request (and are granted) a mail-in ballot and, instead of just dropping it in the mail, drive to a designated drop-off location?? I have to assume postage is pre-paid, so it's not a matter of not having a stamp. I tried to get a mail-in ballot in 2016, and the voting commissioner told me to eff right off.

spracs did you follow the news about the post office while you were gone

Isn't the USPS prioritizing mail-in ballots, now? Anyway, I've lived in Texas for most of my voting life and can honestly say I've never heard about ballot drop-off locations. Were I lucky enough to have a mail-in ballot, that sucker would go straight in the mail. And for the paranoid crowd, HOW CAN YOU BE SURE YOUR VOTE IS GOING TO GET COUNTED EVEN IF YOU DROP IT OFF?!?

I was hoping someone could make a compelling case for not mailing your mail-in ballot, and then connect the dots to how this harms dems/benefits pubs. Distrust of the postal service is one possible explanation, I guess. Wouldn't move the needle for me personally, though.

it doesn't seem like you were paying attention

I always pay attention. I just don't assume fear of something necessarily equates to fact (of something). I haven't noticed any unusual receipt delays in things I send via standard U.S. Mail, much less priority mail. Maybe your snark devoid of substance is confusing me, though. Can you please elaborate?

[sys]

dude is too young to be a likely candidate for coronavirus to take out, so i hope he dies in a fire.

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/1313627692378607616

[MakeItRain]

dude is too young to be a likely candidate for coronavirus to take out, so i hope he dies in a fire.

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/1313627692378607616

The Comey Affair certainly didn't point this picture about the little big eared troll Rosenstein. That's ghoulish, they are all ghouls.

[Cire]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/mike-lee-not-a-democracy-republican-trump-authoritarian.html

Quiet parts out loud

[Cire]

https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008?s=20

[michigancat]

https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1316234509868625920

[catastrophe]

That story is wild, but what elections are they hoping to impact? Governor or something?

Also, did not realize ballot harvesting is actually legal in CA.

[michigancat]

That story is wild, but what elections are they hoping to impact? Governor or something?

Also, did not realize ballot harvesting is actually legal in CA.

It's a protest against ballot harvesting