PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on September 25, 2018, 06:42:52 PM
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Nah, no chance of anything going wrong here.......
https://pjmedia.com/election/w-virginia-announces-smartphone-voting-for-midterms-raising-serious-security-concerns/
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To err is human, to really f@#k up the works requires a computer.
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My smartphone requires either my thumbprint or a password long enough for me to not always remember it. If someone else gets it they're ogling to have a tough time breaking in, recall that the FBI wants phone makers to include a back door so they can get in?
Personally, I think it a damn good idea. We have the lowest levels of voter participation of just about any democracy. Anything to get people voting gets my nod. I've always thought election day should be a national holiday. What could be more American and central to our way of life?
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My smartphone requires either my thumbprint or a password long enough for me to not always remember it. If someone else gets it they're ogling to have a tough time breaking in, recall that the FBI wants phone makers to include a back door so they can get in?
Personally, I think it a damn good idea. We have the lowest levels of voter participation of just about any democracy. Anything to get people voting gets my nod. I've always thought election day should be a national holiday. What could be more American and central to our way of life?
If the cops catch you, what's to keep them from pushing your thumb against the home button. If a criminal steals your phone, they might be tempted to cut your thumb off and take it with them.
I agree with you about making election day a national holiday. But it should be on Saturday or Sunday. Or how about making election day July 4. That would be most appropriate. It's already a holiday, and if people think their hot dogs are more important than voting, I don't want them voting any way.
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Let's see, most states now have early voting, so all one has to do is go to a local location when it's convenient up to a couple of weeks before the election. Then there is vote by mail, again, only takes a few minutes to fill out the ballot and place a stamp on it.
Then we have absentee voting.
So why is voting so difficult? Since we are going to make voting by smart phone available for those too lazy to do the above, why don't we make getting a driver's license available by smart phone as well? I mean, really, have you seen those long lines at the DMV?
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The democrat (communist) way has always been to control who counts the votes and thereby control the country.
I'm not surprised that a progressive academic is blind to that and the RESPONSIBILITY being on the voter, not the state. Pretty soon he'll be promoting the state hiring substitutes to vote for snowflakes because voting is 'hard' and requires thought.
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I'm not surprised that a progressive academic is blind to that and the RESPONSIBILITY being on the voter, not the state. Pretty soon he'll be promoting the state hiring substitutes to vote for snowflakes because voting is 'hard' and requires thought.
And why are you against making is more facile for the voter, who's responsibility it is?
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Perfesser,
Perhaps you should put your class test on a smart phone app, after all, shouldn't you make it more facile for your students?
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My smartphone requires either my thumbprint or a password long enough for me to not always remember it. If someone else gets it they're ogling to have a tough time breaking in, recall that the FBI wants phone makers to include a back door so they can get in?
Personally, I think it a damn good idea. We have the lowest levels of voter participation of just about any democracy. Anything to get people voting gets my nod. I've always thought election day should be a national holiday. What could be more American and central to our way of life?
Negative. Getting people to vote in the absence of knowledge of the issues and candidates is NOT a good thing. Just because we have a more apathetic and ignorant populace than other countries doesn’t mean we need to make it easier for the lethargic sloths to vote.
The effort to vote in the US is mind-numbingly easy. You register and present your bona fides, and then you absentee or early vote, or get to the polls on Election Day. There is literally no excuse for not voting in this country, so if people are too lazy to get off their asses and undertake the privileges of citizenship, then I don’t want them voting. The “right to vote” should also come with the expectation of making yourself knowledgeable, don’t you think?
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And why are you against making is more facile for the voter, who's responsibility it is?
It is not the job of the state to hand carry every one of you pathetic, snowflakes to vote. The entire democrat (communist) agenda about eliminating voter ID laws is to make fraud easier to commit, especially in mass quantities.
If your Whiney little, play-doe and crayon peers can’t take themselves to vote, then fuck them.
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It is not the job of the state to hand carry every one of you pathetic, snowflakes to vote. The entire democrat (communist) agenda about eliminating voter ID laws is to make fraud easier to commit, especially in mass quantities.
I never said it was. It is the job of the state to make voting as facile to the electorate as possible.
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I never said it was. It is the job of the state to make voting as facile to the electorate as possible.
How have they failed? Cite actual facts please.
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I never said it was. It is the job of the state to make voting as facile to the electorate as possible.
And I disagree mightily. Voting should require effort. I read the other day about a teacher in Florida who was fired for giving a student a 0% because the student didn’t turn in any work. The school has a policy of giving no grade lower than 50%. Can you see where such a policy may not turn out well in real life?
https://moonbattery.com/teacher-fired-for-not-giving-partial-credit-for-no-work/
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I never said it was. It is the job of the state to make voting as facile to the electorate as possible.
The ELECTORATE. "All the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election." Make it impossible for everyone else.
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I never said it was. It is the job of the state to make voting as facile to the electorate as possible.
No. It is not.
The state is required to provide for voting PROVIDED the prerequisites are met by any individual wishing to vote.
Voting IS NOT a right. It is a responsibility and democrats (communists) think that all responsibility is either too hard, or racist.
If you are too lazy to register and keep your registration current, that is your fault and your problem. It is not ours, except in the minds of snowflake, liberal, (communists) who can't win elections without committing massive amounts of fraud.
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And I disagree mightily. Voting should require effort. I read the other day about a teacher in Florida who was fired for giving a student a 0% because the student didn’t turn in any work. The school has a policy of giving no grade lower than 50%. Can you see where such a policy may not turn out well in real life?
https://moonbattery.com/teacher-fired-for-not-giving-partial-credit-for-no-work/
The district doesn't appear to agree with her assessment of why she was fired -
https://www.ksat.com/news/district-blasts-fired-teacher-says-there-is-more-to-story