They are also worse than random chance at actually doing the one thing police claim technology can't match: drug and bomb sniffing. Dogs just want to go take a nap or get a treat, and their handlers are cops who just think everything is suspicious so of course they get lots of "hits".
It's essentially the same bullshit that hoodwinked the world with Coco the "signing" guerilla for a couple of decades.
The fact that handlers can fake a "hit" wherever and whenever they want is the entire point, and also the reason they resist moving over to technical solutions. Those technologies also come with logging, which is another point against them as far as cops are concerned.
They’re still around to use as bullshit “probable cause” to hassle and search people’s cars for drugs. Because the war on drugs was a good idea, and dogs have not repeatedly been shown to be complete bullshit. They indicate when their handler wants them to. It’s been proven so many times. Yet, it’s probable cause.
It is very secure. Washington state has been using it for years. Every single citizen gets a ballot mailed to them for every election. It does wonders to increase voter turnout (of course, high voter turnout is largely detrimental for Republicans in elections, so they don't like this practice).
Actually it is probably more secure than voting machines.
I have worked as a signature verifier for two elections in my state.
There is a physical ballot and signature.
For signature verification alone there are at least two people reviewing together each signature submitted with a ballot to match with multiple past signatures on file. The voting portion of the ballot is not seen by us, we only review the signature so there is no way to flag a signature based on how you vote. Any flagged signature goes up to further review by superiors.
Ballots with votes that are not crystal clear to the tally machines (if you put an x in the vote bubble instead of filling it out, if you used a pencil/colored pen instead of a blue or black pen, erasures, etc) are physically reviewed in person by a team of two people and if still uncertain flagged and sent to review by superiors.
Ballots put in the tally machines are manned by at least two people.
Cameras are placed throughout the workplace.
All ballots are locked behind chain link spaces when not in process.
The ballot processing stations are in a secure space open space, anyone can come and watch as we work. You just can’t get closer than about 8 to 12 feet of the work spaces cordoned off by rope.
The tldr, a lot of measures are in place to make sure everything is in the open, machines and people are double checking each other to prevent machine/human error/bias, and there is a evidence trail of paper/witnesses/logs/recording.
A few years back there was a scandal where a whole chain of mental health facilities was doing this. They would buy local mental hospitals, not change the name of disclose that they’d been bought, and start committing everyone, no matter what, for exactly as long as their insurance would cover, then kicking them to the streets.
Took me a bit to dig up the story – it was these guys:
Gotcha. Sidebar here doesn’t have that info but clicking through to the kbin page shows them (not sure if they’re different things across platforms or just haven’t sync’d). That rule makes sense, just wasn’t sure how to comply with it.
Still learning how all these different federated platforms work together / what features won’t work where, etc.
Thanks for asking @ptz. On kbin.social, there is an option in the link submissions form to add badges (similar to flair from reddit) or tags (hashtags to broadcast to the microblogging feature of the Fediverse). As of right now, the badges feature isn't working properly - you can type in the name of a badge (I think it's supposed to be a drop down menu, but is currently a text field) but it doesn't show up in the submission anywhere.
Our users were asked 2 weeks ago what rules they want in this space for moderation and multiple users expressed a desire to see labelling of some sort between news, opinion/editorialized, and analysis content. This is a unique community rule to the politics magazine on kbin.social based on solicited member comments.
We ask that submissions include a label in the title like "News: [Article title as it appears on external site]"
I'm glad you asked this question, especially as a federated user. It draws attention for me that not all of the instances may have coding for badges, so even though I had hoped we could one day employ badges here on kbin.social, I'm realizing that we can't make that a submission rule if federated users don't even have that option.
Also, it will depend on how you're accessing the magazine (which is what all kbin instances call communities), as to whether the sidebar is viewable. I can only think of describing how to access the sidebar if you're another kbin.social user accessing from mobile.
These are realistic barriers to future plans I had wanted to roll out, so thanks for asking this question and shedding light on it for me.
The court can decide to hire an outside expert to redraw the maps if it agrees that the map is another racial gerrymander.
Yes, please. This should be automatic for any overly gerrymandered map. If the kids can’t figure their shit out, it’s time for the grownups to step in.
Maybe we could just… Not let Alabama participate in elections it won’t prepare for?
Ugh, it’s a bad idea, we don’t need to disenfranchise people for the states’ mistake. But ugh, would I like to have Alabama’s version of “present” not count towards the next bimbo peddling hamberders.
I’d like to believe that there will be serious repercussions, and that a fair map will be drawn in Tim for the election, but I don’t think either of those things will happen.
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