AS to the questions of mail-in ballots being discarded and not counted: I have been an election clerk in numerous elections at multiple levels (state and national), over many years, and I can speak to the fact that 1) any mail-in ballot received by the Town Office is checked against the voter list (using the signature on the outside of t…
AS to the questions of mail-in ballots being discarded and not counted: I have been an election clerk in numerous elections at multiple levels (state and national), over many years, and I can speak to the fact that 1) any mail-in ballot received by the Town Office is checked against the voter list (using the signature on the outside of the envelope), then locked in a secure safe until election day; 2) mail-in votes are then taken out of the safe and added to the votes cast by in person voters; 3) counted by the election clerks in a prescribed way that means each vote is noted by both a Republican clerk and a Democrat clerk, and their totals must agree.
Of course. But I would suggest (and hope) that other states probably make at least some attempt to legitemise the system, even the ones that have gerrymandered the districts where voting is done.
Actually, hope is essential to continuing a fight. Being hopeless leads to giving up. Being in an apparently hopeless situation is paralyzing. Only if there might be a wee bit of success from whatever you think of to try, is it worth trying. Otherwise, you are just wasting energy struggling.
Hope is an anesthetic, anger, revenge is what keeps up the fight.
The Palestinians are not motivated by hope, they are motivated by anger and revenge.
The gays, the socialists, the Jews rounded up by the GESTAPO, had stayed put in Germany because of hope. "That Hitler fellow can't be all that bad, it is just rhetoric".
When you have hope you sit on your ass waiting for better days or a savior.
You need to get scared and pissed off, to get off your ass and do something.
AS to the questions of mail-in ballots being discarded and not counted: I have been an election clerk in numerous elections at multiple levels (state and national), over many years, and I can speak to the fact that 1) any mail-in ballot received by the Town Office is checked against the voter list (using the signature on the outside of the envelope), then locked in a secure safe until election day; 2) mail-in votes are then taken out of the safe and added to the votes cast by in person voters; 3) counted by the election clerks in a prescribed way that means each vote is noted by both a Republican clerk and a Democrat clerk, and their totals must agree.
That is in your election district, in your county and in your state. Each state has it's own rules about elections
Of course. But I would suggest (and hope) that other states probably make at least some attempt to legitemise the system, even the ones that have gerrymandered the districts where voting is done.
Hope is an anesthetic. The way to deal with reality is to live in it.
A better way is to keep hope, but not let it anesthetize you. Use it as a strength to help you keep going.
Google Hopium
Hope is not a strength,it is, however, an excuse.
Hope is passive Slaves are passive, the conquered are passive
Actually, hope is essential to continuing a fight. Being hopeless leads to giving up. Being in an apparently hopeless situation is paralyzing. Only if there might be a wee bit of success from whatever you think of to try, is it worth trying. Otherwise, you are just wasting energy struggling.
Hope is an anesthetic, anger, revenge is what keeps up the fight.
The Palestinians are not motivated by hope, they are motivated by anger and revenge.
The gays, the socialists, the Jews rounded up by the GESTAPO, had stayed put in Germany because of hope. "That Hitler fellow can't be all that bad, it is just rhetoric".
When you have hope you sit on your ass waiting for better days or a savior.
You need to get scared and pissed off, to get off your ass and do something.
Not true everywhere.