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you should have been done months ago. you know whats bad faith? telling people they friends and family must die because you suddenly might be in the same situation they've been in for the last year. your friends and families lives may now be on the line.

This is your lesson to learn. you don't throw a group under the bus just for your own convenience.

smile then you're simply clueless. Send me your sources I'll tear down your supposed experts if it gets you to stop spreading this nonsense

Alright oracle. I dont prognosticate (much).

And any researcher who is advocating for the paper trail should trivially realize that soon as you add that, then you literally have the system we have today with counting machines and we dont need to invite all the issues with electronic voting.

As i said take it from people who actually write software as a career. We're literally telling you its not worth the effort/risks.

It'd be prohibitively expensive and borderline impossible due the fact you'd need to audit hundreds of millions of lines of code.

We're literally telling you to not pay us to do that work because its a bad idea.

No but see I withheld my vote for genocidal candidates.

FTFY. get your facts straight. Kamala's internal polling knew this. she choose this put your ire in the proper location: on harris and the dnc for blowing a fucking election against this twit to shill harder for corporations.

she had two jobs to win: convince people she took the economic hardships of american workers serious (she didn't) and commit to following americas laws (she didn't while simultaneously running as a law and order candidate).

Instead she treated arabs like absolute garbage and had pro business economic policies. oooo 25k for first time home owners. bitch people can't afford food and rent and mortgage rates are at a two decade high. you think 25k is going to do shit?

she was such an arrogant asshole to arabs and the working class we fucking warned everyone for months. but instead of listening idiots spouted 'lesser evil' nonsense. All I know is im grabbing popcorn for the next four years and focusing my efforts entirely locally from now on. fuck the DNC and national democrats.

volunteer to do poll work next election.

you should always worry about it operationally. even in europe.

wave that's literally me minus the research into electronic voting systems in particular. do not implement voting systems in software. see my initial response. its not about the technical underpinning of if we could. This isn't a discussion. literally every person worth their weight in the space will tell you the same thing.

its the in-feasibility of doing it well and its completely unnecessary. our current system is more than sufficient using paper ballots that prevent all sorts of fuckery and are auditable. its impossible to hack a paper ballot without a ton of effort manual and physical access. its incredibly easy to hack counting machines and any electronic implementation and it only takes 1 mistake to expose everything.

there is absolutely zero reason to expose voting systems to a digital threat vector and the loss of the paper audit trail would be catastrophic for verification.

The current system gives you the best of both worlds, easy counting and a verifiable paper trail for verification after the initial counts are in. quick answers and incredibly hard to game.

sigh this conversation was never worth the time. oh well. at least we're past the 'blahblah dont understand economics nonsense' I'll toss some final notes and then ignore you. =)

1. my original point in this whole conversation is that the billionaire tax wasnt going to win votes. its a fine policy, I said that multiple times. but it wasnt going to win votes.
2. no I didnt contradict myself, this is your reasoning/reading comprehension issue again. Harris lost because of her poor communication and poor policies. I didn't say which policies were explicitly poor outside of pointing out the ones that explicitly didn't address the main points I was making which is that voters care more about putting food on the table than taxing billionaires.

Harris both failed to communicate effectively that she wasn't a fucking inhumane monster over gaza, and that she actually understood americans needs economically. and as a result it doesn't matter which of her actual policies were actually useful since she already lost people on all 3 of the base motivators: food, shelter, safety. if you fail those 3 issues you will have a hard time making a case for why people should vote for you.

And if you don't understand why harris absolutely needed to distance herself from bidenomics well frankly there is no hope for you at this point since it just goes back to food, shelter, safety.

Np. As for the campaign finance laws im also fairly certain those excuses were a load of bunk too. I dont believe anything prevented biden campaign from returning them to the donors and letting them reallocate.

You inserted yourself into a conversation

yup its called a public forum welcome. didn't want people calling out your nonsense should have done it privately.

a comment proving you don’t understand how taxes affect disposable income.

I absolutely understand how they effect disposable income. do you realize her tax policy would only fractionally mitigated the loss of spending power americans have lost over the last 4 years? first off 1 part of her policy is a child tax credit. many americans don't have children. so this would not impact them. The 2nd part was a tax credit. which means people won't get it anything from either idea until the they file for tax returns. that doesn't fucking help them pay for food/shelter the rest of the year. If you made 60k a year the child tax credit would barely touch 10%. Americans lost 22% of their purchasing power due to inflation.

She couldn’t run ads remotely similar because the brunt of the inflation was experienced under Biden’s term and the majority of Americans didn’t understand the causes so they just believe the ads.

she absolutely could have. she could absolute on day one said 'yeah we didn't get what we needed done economically, I'm going to push for things that actually increases americans income.' but she didn't remotely go anywhere close to this.

so in summary: harris had a shit policy and shit ads if her goal was to convince americans she was going to make them financially more secure. trump didn't (ad wise, policy wise hes far worse). she lost.

its not a voter problem when you don't have good policies or good communication skills. though I suspect given your constant nonsense about me not understanding economics because I called out the nonsense of a 1%er tax not actually addressing the immediate needs of the populace, not to mention she doesn't even have a proposed tax for them just she wont raise taxes for those making <400k, as absolutely bollocks not communicating well is pretty much your forte.

yes, and did harris run any ads remotely similar? no. she ran ads about 'danger! danger! trump' 'the economy is banger!' vs 'the economy sucks and I'll fix it' trump ads. so stop thinking people dont understand economics because your reading comprehension and reasoning abilities suck.

seriously. try telling people the 'economy is doing great! and im going to tax billionaires to fix your problems' while they're stuggling to get food/shelter/safety and see what they tell you. it'll likely be 'fuck off dumbass' just like the voters did to harris. They. dont. care. about. taxing. billionaires. if. they. can't. afford. food. econ 101.