There’s someone near us who has one of the only Trump signs I’ve seen in a several mile radius and they must get it stolen a lot because they displayed a stack of 10+ in their window
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It is so very wrong, for so many reasons. And yet the funny humor.
Offensively defaced Trump sign
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A lady a few doors down had a trump sign and someone took just the paper part but left the frame in the ground. I don’t approve of theft, but it is kind of funny. She replaced it with one that says “back the blue”, which I’m seeing more of around.
This article is long, but it’s fucking fascinating. The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think.
I’m struggling to understand what the believers want, out of society. Anarchy? Violence? Heroism? Are they nihilistically rolling coal? I’m not sure even they know, as a movement.
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Anyone who wants to combine defending our democracy with anti racism work, check out our Reclaim Our Vote phone banks. There’s one today 3-5 Pacific, 6-8 Eastern, and I can get you set up at another time if you can’t make this.
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Ohhh I’m only partway through and it is long but it is also good.
I don’t think they’re coherently organized enough to know what they want as a movement.
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ACB was just confirmed.
hey @anomalily do you know when you will start/end your election livestream? I am trying to get a distraction livestream set up for another set of pals.
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i don’t like referring to her by a cute nickname. none of this has been cute. she’s justice barrett now.
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It’s more I was feeling lazy and didn’t want to type a few extra letters! But fair point 
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i hear ya and i don’t mean to be prickly! but in my opinion she doesn’t deserve a cute lil name. those are reserved for folks who have earned it like AOC and RBG
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I just saw that 68 million people have already voted. That is half of the total number of voters from 2016!
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Is there anyone on this forum voting for for Trump?
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Earlier in the election cycle I will br honest that I considered him but that consideration ended as my mental health improved enough for me to dive deeper into news and policy. I still dislike Biden but I dislike him a lot less than Trump, and I’m particularly worried what he might do once another term can’t happen (especially if the Senate remains Republican, making convicting him on another impeachment charge unlikely to impossible).
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So when you sign a mail in ballot, or go to your polling place and sign your name in the voter roll book : how the hell does anyone have the authority to confirm it with the signature on file? This is not possible to do unless you are an expert in the field and no, your local voting precinct does not have this person on staff. Even on a state level only a few people. I’d hope the margins for discarded ballots due to “signature inconsistency” is very small but again how is this qualified? And — people’s signatures change, what if you break your hand or develop a tremor? The fact that this is a factor really makes me paranoid somehow my vote won’t be counted even though my personal signature I use is clear, distinct, and consistent.
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I have some experience with this on the voter end My ballot was rejected for not matching my signature on file in 2014 because of the inconsistency in my signature due to my arthritis. I actually now sign my ballot with a “stamp” (which is drawing a specific cat picture) due to my disability.
The poll workers here do a basic match as far as I understand, and you have the opportunity to fix it. When mine was rejected I was able to go correct the issue with an ID. Obviously there was no pandemic and I had enough mobility to get to the county to do it.
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First, depending on your state, there are signature cure processes, which are all about fixing wildly inconsistent signatures.
Votes are processed at the county level, not at your local precinct. From my understanding, they’re not looking to rule out clever forgeries, but rather to make sure that, say, your neighbor didn’t grab your ballot out of your mailbox and send it in.
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That’s good to know but my state isn’t on the list unfortunately. I’d imagine that in good faith, signatures being extraneously ruled incorrect happens very very rarely but again I am paranoid.
It’s more of a “the principle of the thing” thing because legitimate signature confirmation is extremely complicated so the fact that it’s used at all is strange.
My biggest fear is some random with a god complex or worse motives imagining signature inconsistencies that don’t exist
Also relatedly, I found another NYTimes quiz: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/07/upshot/mail-voting-ballots-signature-matching.html
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The signature thing really bothers me, because at the DMV I was told that my name has to be legibly read, and they made me resign six times until the woman could make out my name. This is NOT my signature on my drivers license. I could never recreate what I was made to write that day.
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