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This is about the only institution that is uncorrupted in all 50 states:
There are many more going on... but have faith!
There are many more going on... but have faith!
This is all a very easy fix; don't let the states come up with 50 different solutions to the same problem; have a single one that includes some kind of receipt so you can hand check it if you need to.
We use the basic scantron for a reason; if all else fails someone can go back and check the ballots manually. I can't think of a single case where they've done a manual count and it's changed the outcome, so probably a good indication that it's pretty reliable and accurate. We also don't have highly partisan committee controlled by a political party redrawing the election maps based on voter party affiliation either.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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Exclusive federal powers Concurrent powers Exclusive state powers Coining money Taxation Conducting elections Regulating interstate and foreign commerce Lawmaking and enforcement Establishing local governments Regulating the mail Chartering banks and corporations Providing for public safety, health, welfare Declaring war Taking land for public use (eminent domain) Maintaining militia Raising armies Establishing courts Ratifying Constitutional amendments Conducting foreign affairs Borrowing money Regulating intrastate commerce Establishing inferior courts Establishing rules of naturalization
The constitutional structure was what was possible in order to have a country in the first place, including the difficult formula for amending it.This is all a very easy fix; don't let the states come up with 50 different solutions to the same problem; have a single one that includes some kind of receipt so you can hand check it if you need to.
Good luck to those pursuing amendments. Democrats like their kind of gerrymandering as much as Republicans like theirs.And?
Virginia does the same. Honestly most of the ‘electronic’ voting down here appears to be the same. You fill in a paper ballot and it is scanned by the machine.This is all a very easy fix; don't let the states come up with 50 different solutions to the same problem; have a single one that includes some kind of receipt so you can hand check it if you need to.
We use the basic scantron for a reason; if all else fails someone can go back and check the ballots manually. I can't think of a single case where they've done a manual count and it's changed the outcome, so probably a good indication that it's pretty reliable and accurate. We also don't have highly partisan committee controlled by a political party redrawing the election maps based on voter party affiliation either.
The House voted to pass a bill Friday to reauthorize a powerful surveillance authority, apparently capping off a bruising monthslong debate over national security concerns and privacy protections for Americans.
The House voted 273-147 on the measure to continue for two years Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with some changes aimed at making sure the government could not misuse the power.
But the chamber was sharply divided on whether to require the government to get a warrant before searching for the information of Americans swept up in the program — an issue that repeatedly raised hurdles to House action on reauthorization.
To underscore that split, the chamber voted 212-212 on an amendment that would have added a warrant requirement. “Yes” votes included 128 Republicans and 84 Democrats, while “no” votes included 86 Republicans and 126 Democrats.
Progressive Democrats and staunch conservatives banded together in voting for the amendment, but the tie vote meant that the House did not agree to add the warrant requirement by the thinnest of margins.
So how fractured IS the US?
The Venn Diagram of where Chinese and Russian money connects them.So how fractured IS the US? And where does that fracture line lie?
The FISA issue is at heart a question of individual liberties vs the needs of the state.
House approves surveillance authority reauthorization bill - Roll Call
The House voted to pass a bill Friday to reauthorize a powerful surveillance authority, capping off a bruising months-long debate.rollcall.com
So where does the left meet the right?
The Venn Diagram of where Chinese and Russian money connects them.
I’m a big believer in the horseshoe theory of politics.The Venn Diagram of where Chinese and Russian money connects them.
If anyone is interested in more details of what's at issue in Trump's "hush money" case, see here. (Reason.com)
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But whether Trump actually broke those rules is a matter of serious dispute, the relevant statute of limitations has expired, and Bragg in any event does not have the authority to enforce federal campaign finance regulations.
After taking a long, hard look at potential state charges against Trump stemming from the payment to Daniels, Vance concluded they were too iffy to pursue. Now Bragg is desperately looking for a legal pretext to punish what he takes to be the essence of Trump's crime: keeping from voters information they might have deemed relevant in choosing between him and Hillary Clinton. But that is not a crime, and treating it as 34 felonies stretches the bounds of credulity as well as the bounds of the law.
Friendly bunch.
American Anti-War Activists Cheer for Iran’s War
At a left-wing conference in Chicago, activists believe Iran is ‘part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA.’www.thefp.com
Go to a Teamsters union hall in Chicago and learn how to chant Death To America in Farsi - while wearing plague masks.
I know this is American. But I wish us and them had the ability to strip citizenship and deposit these folks in the regions they support. Free one way play ride and a boot in the ass on tarmac.
Hazardous precedent to set. What happens when people protest in favour of a cause you strongly support?
Prosecute crimes, but be careful with letting that cross into simple wholesale suppression of objectionable opinions. Any reasonable discourse about how public order should be policed and enforced needs to stay agnostic to the cause in question on a given day or week.