Google Doodle

Submitted by PriceRip on Sun, 11/06/2016 - 1:46pm

          Today's Google Doodle takes you to a "fill in the box" search for your specific polling location.

          When I type in my Nebraska address the widget returns my specific voting location (more than a mile from my house) with a map for my convenience. I am fortunate: I don't need assistance to get to the polling location.

          When I type in my Oregon address the widget indicates no polling locations and explains

All registered voters automatically receive a mail ballot and can vote by mail.
Election Day is Nov 8, 2016
For drop box locations, bring your completed and sealed ballot. No postage necessary.

          You need only drop your ballot into any convenient mailbox No postage necessary.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sun, 11/06/2016 - 1:56pm
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          Why must I go to a church to vote in a secular society? Why must I check in by redundantly signing a voting log at the polling place to get a ballot?

          Is voting fraud rampant in Oregon?

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Submitted by lunachickie on Sun, 11/06/2016 - 5:57pm
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Bet on it. I no longer trust the vote. How can I?

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Submitted by PriceRip on Mon, 11/07/2016 - 10:12am
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          Rather than just adhering to principles we must strategize. We will never elect someone like a Bernie Sanders . . . ever . . .

          I encountered this a few minutes ago:

          In the case of the US, the parties have optimized themselves to win the elections.

          Put really simply, you want to guarantee yourself just over 50% of the vote in any given election. If you come up short, then you lose, and there's no second place trophy. If you get greater than 50%, that's cool and all, but every single vote beyond that 50% margin is effectively wasted; it doesn't matter if you win 51% or 95% of the vote, you win just as much in each scenario.

          As a result, the parties optimize to hit that 50+% margin; instead of trying to build a huge base of dissenting opinions and voters, they keep a set of policies that are self-consistent enough to only market to and keep a hold of their half of the electorate. Go too big, and you risk losing your fringes as there's no way you'll keep everyone happy. Go too small, and you lose the election.

     

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