Abigail Spanberger and the Virginia Democrats.

[Tidewater]

in georgia, we use a touch screen that forces you to review your choices before submitting. then it prints out a summary of your ballot which you take over and feed into a machine

like i mentioned above, the language used in the summary implies that there are ways to deal with errors

My point is still, how do you know there is an error in counting each vot in each race without a manual recount?

 

[92tide]

My point is still, how do you know there is an error in counting each vot in each race without a manual recount?

i would imagine the machine kicks them out when they can’t scan them.

at least in georgia there are multiple qc checks in the system

we saw this in 2020 when all of this idiocy about “rigged” elections was beginning to take root

 

[JDCrimson]

The way Virginia votes is a voter shows his/her driver's license, poll workers scan its bar code, check the living address (so you are at the right polling station), issues a paper ballot.
Voter goes to a booth, bubbles in the candidates, then goes across the room to the counting machine, feeds the ballot into the machine. The machine records that a ballot has been scanned (a digital ballot counter increases by 1). Finito.
I have no problem with a machine scanning my ballot (that would be the preferred way to count them anyway as long as the machine is available), but the accuracy of that account is only as good as the hardware and the software. And, as an experiment, in the last election, I deliberately did not vote for dog catcher. (I neither know nor care who the dog catcher is in Hooterville). The scanning machine did not flag up that I had not voted for dog catcher. It just recorded that a ballot had been counted. In a very close election up ballot, there may have been a scanning error on some of the ballots, but according to this law, it is not legal to count them by hand. I think that is improper.

This the same way they do it in Alabama where I live. I see nothing wrong with this process.

 

[75thru79]

My point is still, how do you know there is an error in counting each vot in each race without a manual recount?

Then why even have automated voting machines if you're just going to manually count everything. No suite of controls is going to be perfect. There are going to be errors but I think it's very safe to say that an automated count is going to beat a manual count 99 times out of 100.

 

[Tidewater]

Then why even have automated voting machines if you're just going to manually count everything. No suite of controls is going to be perfect. There are going to be errors but I think it's very safe to say that an automated count is going to beat a manual count 99 times out of 100.

I would agree that computer counting is faster than manual, but in the cases in which a particular election is unusually close, there is no harm in counting by hand, just to make sure you get things right. In the 2004 case of the Washingotn governor's race, the result was revwrsed.

 

[Tidewater]

I found a good look at the maps Virginia is currently using and the one the Democrats propose we adopt.
Here is the current map:

Here is the proposed new map:

Under this new system, western Hooter County will be in the same district as Arlington National Cemetery 160 miles away because they have so much in common, presumably

Virginians removed this from the politicians in 2021. A committee draws the district boundaries. This change will only be for this election (and maybe the 2028 elections.

 

[Bazza]

 

[CrimsonJazz]

WATCH: Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is calling on Gov. Abigail Spanberger to reverse her anti ICE executive order after an illegal immigrant allegedly murdered a Virginia mother in Fairfax County.

Miyares and Stephanie Minter’s family also called on Spanberger to veto a bill on her desk that would ban local jurisdictions from cooperating with ICE.

Miyares says if that bill is signed by Spanberger, every Virginia county, city and town will have sanctuary policies that shield illegal immigrants from deportation and legal consequences, like Fairfax County.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036598171812462592

 

[Tidewater]

I figured out who Gov. Spanberger reminds me of.

 

[dtgreg]

I found a good look at the maps Virginia is currently using and the one the Democrats propose we adopt.
Here is the current map:
View attachment 56123
Here is the proposed new map:
View attachment 56124
Under this new system, western Hooter County will be in the same district as Arlington National Cemetery 160 miles away because they have so much in common, presumably

Virginians removed this from the politicians in 2021. A committee draws the district boundaries. This change will only be for this election (and maybe the 2028 elections.

You're gonna LOVE the Texas redistricting.

 

[Tidewater]

You're gonna LOVE the Texas redistricting.

Since I do not live in Texas, it is of little consequence to me.

 

[Tidewater]

Here is, I suppose the good thing abot the redistricting: it makes more races competitive. In a heavily gerrymandered district (whether Democrat or Republican), the real race is the majority-party primary. Whoever wins the primary will win the general.

The Democrats want to take the same number of Democrat and Republican voters and spread them out over more districts. That means a lot of 55-45 districts and all it will take is the Democratic party to fall on its face (nationally or in-state) by nominating a nincompoop, or overseeing some serious policy gaff for many of these districts to swing Republican.

In 2021, it was attacking parents of school kids and hiding transgender young men who had sexually assaulted a schoolgirl, was hidden by Democrat school district officials, moved to a different school, where he assaulted another girl. If we had had these districts in 2021, Virginia's Congressional delegation might have flipped 6-5 Republican, or maybe even 7-4 Republican.

I said the same critique when discussing black gerrymandered districts, which are based on the premise that only a black person can represent a black person in the legislature (I was then living in Bobby Scott's Va 3rd). When I challenged Congressman Scott on this by asking who was representing me, his staff wrote back that I was "virtually represented" by the white Congressmen from Virginia (the same argument that Parliament had made with the colonists in 1775). I found that answer not particularly satisfying.