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WOTD from the Atlantic: "The History of the “Riot” Report"
"And you may find yourself,
Living in a big white house.
And you might ask yourself,
How the F did I get here."
Are there any data showing how many people vote by mail and how many vote by dropping their ballot in the big steel box?
Data? Here's some…We (2) drop ours in the box.
…it's a start.😁
Add me and that makes three who drop the ballots off in the big steel box.
I always drop off for us, so that's 3 more
I drop them off on Election Day. This year I'll walk them inside the Mesa County clerk & recorder's office and demand a receipt. I'm not going to take the chance that our incompetent-and-proud-of-it county clerk forgets to make sure her revolving-door staff remembers to empty–and count–all the steel boxes.
One more piece of data – dropbox wins every time. Eliminates brain damage of trying to figure out how much postage is needed. And if you live where I do, you avoid standing in line at the Post Box like the plague.
I see what you did there…☺
I vote in the box as well. At least in Denver they are all over and I can *walk* to one in ten minutes instead of driving or biking to the post office.
Also cheap. I won’t give up my meaningless protest vote, but darned if I’ll pay to do it.
By the by: 538 reports that we are up 21% over 2016 in our primary voting. They attribute it mostly to opening things up to the independents.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-have-been-38-statewide-elections-during-the-pandemic-heres-how-they-went/
Latest piece of deliberate voter misinformation: “ If you didn’t vote in the primary, you can’t vote in the general”.
That whopper is apparently all over social media, consumed by the same folks who follow chem trails, ancient aliens, and other c Ts.
I heard this yesterday from a long lost family member, one of the many friend’s and neighborhood kids I “adopted” in the 80s. (I was one of those neighborhood moms). Needless to say, I’ll visit and get her and her entire voting age family registered ASAP.
Check the ideas of your extended social circle- and correct the lies when you can.
Sec of State had a release comparing in-person and "not" in-person:
I can't find a split between mail or drop box in a fast search of the Sec of State website.
I did see one thing that surprised me …
You'd think that with the surveillance state we live in, it wouldn't be hard to find locations that are already under a camera.
The only other gimmick I could think of is in some counties, they pay the return postage, so that line item would give a rough approximation of how many ballots came by mail.
Ours go in the box at Broadway Station.
Two more here. That almost gets us to statistical reliability or validity, or something like that.
Drop box here. My daughter and son in law mail theirs in. But we’re probably a more informed sample on Pols than the regular voter on the street.
Mango Mussolini hates drop boxes, too.
Ninety two days of this fascist swine
And we can hear him whine.
Live this day in a loving way
Then ninety one days 'til the sun will shine.
Eastern Colorado lost a mainstay over the weekend. My wife’s aunt, Margaret Faye Bunting, a Baca County rancher, succumbed to cancer. She was 88, and never lost her love for the land and her family.
Drought and dust can make Baca County a hard place to live. But while it is no place for the weak, it is a place where the strong can find peace.
We will miss her greatly. Her daughter Judy and husband Arthur still carry on at the ranch, where once again the drought constrains the land.
Life is hard. And then you die.
Pax vobiscum.
Sorry for your and your family's loss, V.
Deepest sympathies, V.
RIP
Sorry to hear of the loss… for the good people, even 88 years is too short.
I don't think we've ever mailed them back. Denver has many convenient boxes and I often wait for late developments before voting.
More Democrats promoting Trumpers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/democrats-risky-senate-bet-kris-kobach-kansas/614803/
Democrats are trying to help Kris Kobach get the Republican Senate nomination in Kansas. They betting that it is better for them to potentially help elect an outright nut than to have a harder campaign facing off a normally bad Republican. Wonderful.
Kobach has demonstrated he knows how to campaign and lose statewide in Kansas. He may be slightly worse than the other Republican on policy and manners, but not enough to make a difference. Horrible more likely to lose is better than Horrible with nice enough manners to not scare people.
Crunch time for Trump and his lawyers fighting NY's Manhattan DA subpoena:
Diane Mitsch Bush is getting some good press.
From RealVail “Mitsch Bush blasts Boebert for ties to far-right militia, white supremacists”
from Montrose Press, a Letter to the Editor from Yvette Roberts – also in Aspen Daily News
She also has a robust Twitter and Facebook presence.
Two recent articles in Colorado Politics – one on her outraising Boebert ~ 4-1, The second is on her campaign staff, but most of it is behind a paywall.
All this is making me feel better after her informative, but visually uninspiring, TREX interview. Then there’s the bad- to-neutral news. Most mainstream media outlets appear to be focusing on the mediagenic Boebert. Cute and crazy sells papers, apparently.
Denver Post appears to be smitten with Boebert. A search for Diane Mitsch Bush on the Post website yields seven articles about Boebert, or the CD3 race.
The Pueblo Chieftain is also not giving DMB any good press. She met with editorial board last February, but they did not endorse her.
The Gazette also is focusing on the headline grabbing candidate, Boebert.
Puebloans need to pressure the Chieftain to give DMB fair coverage.
Well, Puebloans should try – but the Chieftain only likes Republicans – and customer-gouging investor-owned utilities (i.e. Black Hills Energy). I have been doing some phonebanking for DMB (and I don't live in CD3). I'm impressed with how organized the volunteer effort is, and how motivated Dems are in CD3. Until this past weekend we had been calling solely to recruit additional volunteers, and getting tons of new vols. The next round of calls will be to inactive Dems to get them on the road to voting this fall. Click the "Volunteer" link on her website, and pick your volunteer shifts!!
The Chieftain would like her a lot more if she'd set up shop in Pueblo and get visible. The landscape is littered with 3rd CD Democratic candidates who took Pueblo for granted.
Thanks, realist. I’ve kind of soured on working within Dem party structure since they foisted Hick on us, but I’ll work on G O TV with individual candidates such as DMB.