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It's good to know also that Google capitulates to nazis and folds like a busted lawn chair.

And then we have Vance waiting in the wings with the rest of the heritage foundation fascists.

Bullshit. Anyone even slightly more progressive would have been curb stomped.

I'm an election inspector. The amount of young male first time voters coming in with maga hats has been off the charts. And the number of young male voters in general is higher than I've ever seen.

This will be my third time as an election official. I'm "just" in my early 50s and am the kid in the room that's good with computers. A younger generation of poll workers is desperately needed. I have to use a vacation day to do it, but am glad I have that ability.

Didn't know that. I sit corrected.

Unless something has changed, "1:4 meat" comes shipped frozen in big boxes just like "1:10 meat". I don't think I've ever seen fresh not frozen burger at a McDonald's.

Sir, this isn't a Wendy's :D

I don't lift a damn thing and regularly swipe spoonfuls of peanut butter.

I want to believe, but I just don't see it happening. I live in a swing state rural area and I've seen easily 3-4x more trump signs in yards than I have in elections previous, and I'm livid.

I'd like to see that source. The voter information should be limited to their registered address and what primary or caucus they voted in - not their individual votes, which are anonymized. At most, a PAC should only be able to infer (from the voter information alone) a likelihood of which political party the voter is associated with. Now, if they take that voters info and combine it with open source intelligence, social media, advertising intelligence/marketing data, they can make much better assumptions.

At the locality level, the voter is issued a serialized ballot. The local township, city, whatever keeps a log that "voter x received ballot Y", but that's where the association ends. Before being tabulated (read by the optical scanning machine and dropped into a sealed chamber), an election official removes to perforated strip containing the serial number, and the voter deposits the ballot (deserialized) into the tabulator. There is no input to the tabulator to indicate which ballot, or which voter was just processed.

The registration receipts and ballots (without serial numbers) are kept by the locality under seal for a designated retention period.

Source: local election official

I'm probably gonna mess this quote up, but I thought it was brilliant:

"Privacy is essential to security, and shitty people feel entitled to take that away from you."

You can't be secure in your dealings or operate on equal footing (economically speaking, as others here have pointed out) without a measure of privacy.

"we've hit bedrock, let's dig a little deeper!"