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site posted:To get away from fat shaming for a minute: Hillary is calling for automatic voter registration on your 18th birthday and mandated 20 days of early voting in all elections. Not quite as far reaching as the Brennan Center proposal (using Selective Service, DMV, and other registries to practically abolish it), or the one signed into law in Oregon, but its a good first step. Add this onto her planned parental leave legislation, and her election is at least something like a plus for a domestic progressive platform.
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Alter Ego posted:
Camel toe is women. When it's a dude it's a moose knuckle. That's the extent of my expert experience in this thread.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:28
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I have mixed feelings on mandatory registration and early voting based on actually working in voter registration for a period of my life -- also in letting DMV workers register voters but thats mostly because they're moron assholes. That said, I think the benefit out weighs most of those concerns and I am glad she's pushing for greater voting access.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:30
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:I have mixed feelings on mandatory registration and early voting based on actually working in voter registration for a period of my life Care to elaborate?
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Jun 4, 2015 22:33
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Election Day should be a federal holiday and anyone who thinks otherwise hates America.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:35
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neonnoodle posted:Election Day should be a federal holiday and anyone who thinks otherwise hates America. what is the reasoning it's not? Is it just white americans just want to work and everyone else just finds an excuse for a day off?
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Jun 4, 2015 22:41
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site posted:Care to elaborate? Sure, and again this is completely anecdotal -- I worked in VR/Elections in WV during a period when Joe Manchin was SoS (which is the chief elections official here). And despite being mostly DINO he's very big on opening up the voting and election process. He's a major proponent of early elections and making registering easier. From that, I am not sure that just because everyone is automatically registered, or rather, forced to that it actually increases voter participation in any meaningful way. Nor do I see it as something that's very enforceable. I completely agree with making it easier to register and understand the entire history of voter disfranchisement. I am just not sure that the benefit is what people think it will be. That said, one of the things Joe did that was really interesting and maybe helps explain what I mean was changing how the state did jury selection. People in WV used to say that didn't register to vote because they didn't want to be pulled for jury duty. So, we switched to pulling jury duty by social security numbers and tax returns. People didn't suddenly start registering to vote because of it though. They just found a new excuse. neonnoodle posted:Election Day should be a federal holiday and anyone who thinks otherwise hates America. That I do agree with.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:45
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Honestly Rick Perry's best attribute as a GOP Candidate is that he is handsome looking especially compared to the rest of the field.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:50
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Don't, he was the one that decided to 'run' for president without doing any prep or legwork or even seeing if more than a dozen people were interested in him running. Didn't stop Huntsman.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:54
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There's no need for these half-assed proposals, just make voting mandatory. You can legally spoil your ballot or something if you want, but skipping out on the process entirely should exclude you from taking money from the government - including tax code transfers like the mortgage interest deduction which are vastly larger than welfare and mostly targeted at the relatively well to do, before anyone calls that proposal anti-poor.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:There's no need for these half-assed proposals, just make voting mandatory. You can legally spoil your ballot or something if you want, but skipping out on the process entirely should exclude you from taking money from the government - including tax code transfers like the mortgage interest deduction which are vastly larger than welfare and mostly targeted at the relatively well to do, before anyone calls that proposal anti-poor. That's sure done wonders for Australia.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:There's no need for these half-assed proposals, just make voting mandatory. You can legally spoil your ballot or something if you want, but skipping out on the process entirely should exclude you from taking money from the government - including tax code transfers like the mortgage interest deduction which are vastly larger than welfare and mostly targeted at the relatively well to do, before anyone calls that proposal anti-poor. Are you going to provide non-campaign financed methods of transport for voting? How do you plan to enforce it? I understand your idea -- I am just not sure that its really practical to have mandatory voting in a nation as large, complex and diverse as the US. computer parts posted:That's sure done wonders for Australia. Just because it might not have desired resulted (FULL COMMUNISM NOW) doesn't mean it isn't an idea worth having a conversation about.
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"Oh, Senate floor footage, I just can't quit you bro." ~ Rand Paul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPCZ7uZN8k I think he really messed up by including Grassley's voice in the clip. That's not going to go over well with the Iowan. 
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Joementum posted:"Oh, Senate floor footage, I just can't quit you bro." ~ Rand Paul. Good lord. He's such a loving dweeb.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:59
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neonnoodle posted:Election Day should be a federal holiday and anyone who thinks otherwise hates America. It should be election days and those days should be on a Friday and Saturday. Many poor/lower income voters work odd hours and/or multiple jobs so they have trouble getting to the polls on a single day. Many "minimum wage" jobs also do not let you take time off to go vote whereas many higher pay/skill jobs reimburse or refund personal time used for voting. Having elections on a Tuesday is something that should have been changed decades ago.
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MH Knights posted:It should be election days and those days should be on a Friday and Saturday. Many poor/lower income voters work odd hours and/or multiple jobs so they have trouble getting to the polls on a single day. Many "minimum wage" jobs also do not let you take time off to go vote whereas many higher pay/skill jobs reimburse or refund personal time used for voting. Having elections on a Tuesday is something that should have been changed decades ago. That's the idea behind having no excuse absentee voting. I don't think the actual results show it has increased voter participation by any real amount.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:That's the idea behind having no excuse absentee voting. I don't think the actual results show it has increased voter participation by any real amount. Or also mail in ballots so you have weeks to vote.
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Jun 4, 2015 23:03
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Rick Perry's rap rock song Is it just me, or is Rick Perry's campaign plane a C-130 military cargo plane? That's a way to prove you're strong on defense.
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Jun 4, 2015 23:06
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Rick Perry's rap rock song Here's the video. WARNING: may cause an overdose of 'MERICA  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esnSbBuf9f4
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The X-man cometh posted:Is it just me, or is Rick Perry's campaign plane a C-130 military cargo plane? That's a way to prove you're strong on defense. His announcement today was in a military aircraft hanger, which is also why he was sweating so hard. Turns out that un-air-conditioned metal hangers in Texas in June get pretty hot!
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Jun 4, 2015 23:08
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Just because it might not have desired resulted (FULL COMMUNISM NOW) doesn't mean it isn't an idea worth having a conversation about. What about when the result is literal concentration camps no one is allowed to talk about?
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Jun 4, 2015 23:11
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site posted:To get away from fat shaming for a minute: Hillary is calling for automatic voter registration on your 18th birthday and mandated 20 days of early voting in all elections. As much as I'd love to see this the GOP would literally fight to the death against it because they'd be severely hosed by increased turnout in all elections. Send ever voter a ballot in the mail they can either mail back in by a certain date or drop off at a polling place and it'd be insane. The GOP would drown in their own screams of voter fraud.
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:What about when the result is literal concentration camps no one is allowed to talk about? The voters have spoken! Turns out, the voters are jerks.
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Clinton campaign kicks children out of NY park Clinton's a jerk 
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:What about when the result is literal concentration camps no one is allowed to talk about? See my question on how you'd enforce mandatory voting as a prerequisite for supporting in such scheme but also democracy doesn't mean everyone likes the result. Evil Fluffy posted:As much as I'd love to see this the GOP would literally fight to the death against it because they'd be severely hosed by increased turnout in all elections. Send ever voter a ballot in the mail they can either mail back in by a certain date or drop off at a polling place and it'd be insane. The GOP would drown in their own screams of voter fraud. This is a serious question: is there any real indication that mandatory registration increases voter participation? BI NOW GAY LATER fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 23:17
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The yoogest, classiest event Mason City, Iowa's seen this year.
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Joementum posted:His announcement today was in a military aircraft hanger, which is also why he was sweating so hard. Turns out that un-air-conditioned metal hangers in Texas in June get pretty hot! Hahah that makes me think he doesn't know a drat thing about the military. What a maroon.
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Jack2142 posted:Or also mail in ballots so you have weeks to vote. Voting by email was pretty cool, though it meant acknowledging that my state was not able to guarantee that my vote would be confidential.
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Guess the 2016 Presidential candidate. Hint: it's not Hillary Clinton.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Hahah that makes me think he doesn't know a drat thing about the military. What a maroon. He flew C-130s when he was in the airforce or whatever, that's why it was there.
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The Nastier Nate posted:While it does seem ridiculous that somehow a casino, whose entire business involves people putting money on a table and walking away with nothing, would go bankrupt - there are a few mitigating factors. 1: The reason for this is the bankruptcy. He pulls this poo poo all the time, too, where he finances tacky poo poo with his name on it, it goes under, the creditors get a fraction of their investment back in the form of a gaudy-as-gently caress eyesore stamped with that weasel's name on it, he keeps a token stake for income since the new owners run it properly, repeat. 2: When you gamble with Snooki you gamble with Satan. Folks would rather take their chances with the philly traffic authority. Joementum posted:Guess the 2016 Presidential candidate. ARE YOU READY KIDS? *AYE AYE CHAIRMAN* Whooooo berns up the country with socialist glee? *BERNIE SANDERS* Toothy and Jewish and tousled is he! *BERNIE SANDERS* If owning the means is something you wish Then get off your rear end there's a system to squish etc. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Plinkey posted:He flew C-130s when he was in the airforce or whatever, that's why it was there. He also did a campaign across Texas in a B-25 in 1990. Which frankly is pretty cool.
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Joementum posted:The yoogest, classiest event Mason City, Iowa's seen this year. You were there too? It was a speech. Oh boy it was. Some pics and a rundown when I get home. Took notes this time.
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FAUXTON posted:1: The reason for this is the bankruptcy. He pulls this poo poo all the time, too, where he finances tacky poo poo with his name on it, it goes under, the creditors get a fraction of their investment back in the form of a gaudy-as-gently caress eyesore stamped with that weasel's name on it, he keeps a token stake for income since the new owners run it properly, repeat. Yeah, when he put in his joke bid for the Bills, he had to certify with the NFL that he didn't have a major stake in a casino, because that would make him ineligible to become an owner. Instead, he lost because he can't afford a team.
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Joementum posted:Here's the video. WARNING: may cause an overdose of 'MERICA Line from the chorus: quote:Take my job but not my guns Men-Children proudly proclaiming they will starve and let their families starve before giving up their penis extensions.
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No way, that pic has to be Scott Walker, just looking at the general asymmetry.
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The X-man cometh posted:Yeah, when he put in his joke bid for the Bills, he had to certify with the NFL that he didn't have a major stake in a casino, because that would make him ineligible to become an owner. Instead, he lost because he can't afford a team. Trump would "fix" America's deficit by declaring bankruptcy!
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We have a long way to go before we top the most embarrassing musical moment of 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7nVteJ8_8k
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Anime Curator posted:what is the reasoning it's not? Is it just white americans just want to work and everyone else just finds an excuse for a day off? "Voting shouldn't be easy because it hurts us when it is." - a literal answer given by Republicans. Florida State Senator Mike Bennet (R-Brandeton) posted:This is a hard-fought privilege. This is something people die for. You want to make it convenient? The guy who died to give you that right, it was not convenient. Why would we make it any easier? I want 'em to fight for it. I want 'em to know what it's like. I want them to go down there, and have to walk across town to go over and vote. former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer posted:We’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us
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