2018 Midterms: Gerrymandering to Victory b/w Blue Wave, Red Pill

[Eurell]

A fucking lock her up sign. 2 years after she lost the election. Because of a senate/governor recount in a county in FL. Fuck man

[Robertfb]

The irony here is had the tables flipped and Gillium/Nelson won, they would be crying for a recount along with Trump calling Broward County their best hope for a red win in Florida......

As someone who early voted in Broward County, I find what Rick Scott is doing repugnant and pisses me off that they are wanting our votes not to count.

[6souls]

https://www.twincities.com/2018/11/0...juana-parties/

Two political parties advocating legalization of marijuana in Minnesota are poised to get a boost. Preliminary results show the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party and the Legal Marijuana Now Party both received at least 5 percent of the vote in a statewide contest in Tuesday’s midterm elections, enough to earn major party status in Minnesota.

[Yuri-G]

Tim Walz is super pro marijuana. MAKE IT SO, TIMMAH


I don't want to get excited but I'm beginning to hope it will come soon here

[6souls]

Tim Walz is super pro marijuana.

No, he isn't. Much like his stance on the NRA, he is just running on the party line.

[Yuri-G]

the man has literally said on twitter "I support legalizing marijuana for recreational use." party line or not, I don't know what else you'd call that bro

[Fiye]

There's a stark difference between saying you support legalization of it and pushing for legislation of it. If he says he supports it it amounts to he's willing to sign a bill if it makes his desk not push for legislative branches to make it so.

[Quicklet]

Sure sounds like if Nelson loses it's going to be because Broward County fucked up their ballot design.

[Tokitoki]

my signature changes every time I use it, that's absolute insanity

They still have my signature from when I got my permit when I was 16 on file. I told the woman that signature is super old from when I got my permit.

I never had to sign shit when I was 16, why the fuck would that be the signature they use for everything?

[6souls]

the man has literally said on twitter "I support legalizing marijuana for recreational use." party line or not, I don't know what else you'd call that bro

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/0...oids-marijuana

MN Dem & Rep candidates for Gov show that they both lack education on marijuana. Tim Walz (D) supports recreational because it's the party line, but with conditions because he doesn't want to add another addictive substance to the market and he supports the expansion of medical marijuana. Jeff Johnson (R) is against recreational marijuana because he doesn't want to add another addictive substance to the market and he is for the expansion of medical marijuana with smokeable being an option.

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[Yuri-G]

eh, fair enough. that tweet just got me really excited lol

[Fiye]

https://www.politico.com/states/flor...s-found-690552

[mallister]

I watched that jackass go off on CNN. He's a fucking nut.

[Salodin]

Sure sounds like if Nelson loses it's going to be because Broward County fucked up their ballot design.

No its not. Our ballots were fine. Rick Scott is just trying to throw out votes cause he knows broward is 60%+ blue. Every 10 votes is 6+ that dont go his way so hes trying to get them thrown out or not counted. This is why I dont vote by mail or provisional, give me a real ballot and I dare them to throw out a normal ballot like they do mail and provisional. Both groups are watching the election centers like hawks just waiting for a stray ballot appear in the trash.

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[archibaldcrane]

No its not. Our ballots were fine.

So why were there 25k ballots where people voted for Governor but not the Senate in the county?

It's clearly poor ballot design in Broward.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...a-recount/amp/

People didn't see the Senate race in the bottom left corner and started with Governor in the top middle.

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[Fiye]

So why were there 25k ballots where people voted for Governor but not the Senate in the county?

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Legitimately there were a number of people that voted Beto and no one else but even that's a fucking lot for a county.

[Salodin]

So why were there 25k ballots where people voted for Governor but not the Senate in the county?

It's clearly poor ballot design in Broward.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...a-recount/amp/

People didn't see the Senate race in the bottom left corner and started with Governor in the top middle.

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Because the rest if the ballot is designed exactly the same, with ballots in the lower corner of each page. If they saw those, then why would they miss just the senate one? You're asking a lot to think people are stupid enough to miss a corner ballot on page 1, but not on page 2, 3, etc.

Each column has multiple ballots on it if room permitted, and to say the public voted on the rest except the senate one is a big ask.

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[Dimmauk]

Our entire voting system is old and all over the place. It needs to get updated and more uniform

[Salodin]

I remember getting my broward ballot and looking at it going "well this looks fucking weird" but it's on legal paper and all you have to do is go down the columns one at a time. To think over 3% of Broward couldn't figure it out...lol.

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[Niiro]

https://apnews.com/18679ae12bbe4b2d9dbe93fcaf00e757

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Republicans and Democrats agreed Friday to give rural voters an extra chance to fix problems with their ballots in the count of the state’s tight Senate race, resolving a GOP lawsuit that sought to stop urban voters from using those very same procedures.

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Many other counties only allow voters to cure until polls close on Election Day. Now, all will follow the standard set by Maricopa, Pima and two other rural counties that allow for post-Election Day cures.

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On Friday, Republicans escalated their attacks on Democrats, claiming they were trying to disenfranchise rural voters -- even though Democrats had little do with how the rural counties chose to count ballots. Those counties are predominantly run by Republicans. Democrats, in turn, said the GOP was trying to nullify cast ballots.