Embarrassing? You mean the color? Because otherwise I'm not seeing it.
Damn it, if it's important enough for an orange title, it's important enough to donate money to!
Getting all "Let's Take ACTION", which is where the orange originally came from, which kinda fizzled horrendously.
Yes, but this is an actual opportunity to Take ACTION which hopefully won't fizzle quite as quickly.
I kind of heart TLL, actually, and am generally way more amused than annoyed by his talk of the tin-foil hats, but precisely this sort of thing - regardless of which party gains or loses a seat - is why a stake should be driven through the heart of most electronic voting machines. Malicious or accidental, helpful or harmful to the left, these machines are nothing but a great way to fuck up democracy.
Yeah, and the wonderful about making a fuss here is that nothing huge is hanging on it. We aren't getting het up because one House seat makes a difference, it's because the machines are a nightmare and a half.
It did fizzle, for lack of a shamelessly monomaniac leader and a well-defined project. But when those show up, boy howdy, there'll be ACTION then!
Yeah, I haven't got that monomanaical flair. I make a great sidekick, though.
The thing about Unfogged is that we're pretty much all sidekicks.
I once described the ideal romantic relationship as one where you could trade off who was the sidekick.
I find the "This will KILL DIEBOLD DEAD!" followed by the "Er, ES&S, same difference" somewhat amusing, especially as ES&S makes the quite functional optical-scan machines that I used.
But I sent fifty bucks anyway. Division of labor and all that.
Yeah. Kos -- amazing organizer, force for good in the world, but kind of a clown.
The thing about Unfogged is that we're pretty much all sidekicks.
There can be only one Hero.
I went, I read, I double-checked, I donated.
What do we do while we're waiting for Ahab?
I'm pretty sure I called dibs on being the hero's sidekick a long time ago.
I also called shotgun. And control of the remote. In perpetuity.
Can they do a do-over of the election? Is there any precedent for that? Wouldn't it do irreparable damage to, well, somebody?
It's been done elsewhere. Ukraine, for instance.
It was also one of the proposed solutions (ordered by a court, but then overruled by another court, IIRC) when a similar situation happened in NC two years ago in a Council of State race.
ordered by a court, but then overruled by another court
The State Board of Elections ordered a special election in just Carteret County, where the machines ate the votes. The two (Secretary of Agriculture) candidates both filed suit, one of them asking for a statewide special election instead. A judge dismissed the single-county special election and sent it back to the BoE. They then mandated a statewide special election, but the Superior Court overturned that as well (now mid-January), sending it back to the BoE once again. After that, the Democrat just went ahead and conceded.
I once described the ideal romantic relationship as one where you could trade off who was the sidekick.
I knew I had gotten the instructions wrong somehow. My wife and I have been trading off who gets kicked in the side.