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Hitoshura wrote:strictly speaking i don't necessarily need an ID, but massachusetts makes you recertify your voter registration every 6 months by sending in a thing they mail to you. it has to be received back within like ten days of it being sent out and i check my PO box once every month or two so i always miss it. they keep you on the voter rolls but you have to fill out a special form and present ID in order to get a ballot, which i've had to do every single time i've ever voted

iamgoat wrote:The problem with having an old, conservative generation voting is that they’re not voting for your future, but for theirs. And theirs is relatively much shorter than yours and your children’s. This is one of the caveats of democracy. A solution could be to have the elderly vote only on subjects that directly influence their lives and well-being.

Lavabug wrote:

iamgoat wrote:The problem with having an old, conservative generation voting is that they’re not voting for your future, but for theirs. And theirs is relatively much shorter than yours and your children’s. This is one of the caveats of democracy. A solution could be to have the elderly vote only on subjects that directly influence their lives and well-being.

A better solution would be to make voting mandatory to get the substantial fraction of young people who regularly don't to actually participate. Only 1/3 millennials claim they would be 'definitely voting' in recent polls.

It's also been funny/maddening watching these bourgeois armchair pseudo-revolutionary leftists eschew elections altogether on the internet because they're supposedly entirely useless. elvis live at madison square garden why the hard right and their bootlicking supporters make such an effort in voter suppression and actively dissuade people from voting.

Dr. Gonzo wrote:Correct. Thays what is happening over here. Good news is that blue runs the Senate now and can now have more leverage over what the Republicant's can do.

If a candidate in Wisconsin is losing by less than 1 percent, they can ask for a recount — but Walker lost by 1.2 percent.

Business Insider reports that the threshold is due to a law Walker signed after President bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea was elected. Mr. bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea won Wisconsin by 23,000 votes, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who received just 1 percent of the vote, demanded and received a recount, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In response, the state legislature passed a measure mandating that in the future, candidates could only request a recount if they were losing by less than 1 percent.

Therefore, Walker did not qualify for a recount, like his lieutenant governor initially suggested when the race was too close to call. Walker ultimately called Evers to concede.

jorsh wrote:Fuck walker.