What happened to anonymous vote counting?
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Assuming you mean the Florida data… the content of the votes is anonymous. Who voted, demographics, whether their ballots were flagged, and (in most places that make you register under a party, I think) which party they’re registered under, isn’t.
I personally think the last of those is particularly egregious, but…
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So, an election registrar has a POC voting come by, and flags the ballot? Does the flag get attached to the anonymous ballot?
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That’s a really good question.
In this Florida data (from what’s said in the article - I haven’t dug into it beyond that), it’s about voting by mail, so it would be before the ballot’s opened… something about the mailed ballots is being flagged, and it’s something that falls under the rules that allow for curing the ballot once it’s flagged. And it’s something that somehow seems to be tied to how verification is being done in specific counties, too.
One thing I have wondered about, though I have absolutely no facts to back it up, so take with a truckload of salt and all that: In the flurry of accusations the GOP threw around in the last election, one thing they complained bitterly about was the court settlement in GA that required multiple people to agree about a failed signature validation before rejecting the mailed ballot. That got me thinking about how easy it would be, without that review, for a single person to end up rejecting ballots due to bias (either conscious or otherwise) towards things like implied ethnicity of the name, or styles of handwriting, or even something non-signature-related like the voter’s address on the envelope. It would be something extremely difficult to catch or accuse someone of due to the subjectivity of signature matching, and the “well, if your signature was rejected you can just physically come in and cure it, no big deal” idea.
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That’s what Greg Sargent of the Washington Post has concluded: “[W]hat’s remarkable is the open embrace of such gratuitous, mustache-twiddling tactics … They say such laws will restore voter ‘confidence,’ which was supposedly shaken by the widespread belief that the 2020 results were illegitimate.”
If so, we have entered a truly dangerous phase of circular reasoning, in which the need for Republican “voter confidence” becomes the self-evident rationale for openly partisan restrictions on Democratic voters. It’s bad enough that the Trump wing of the GOP is advocating a crackdown on voting rights, but it’s alarming that Raffensperger, soon to be purged in a 2022 primary for refusing to accept the “stolen election” hypothesis, shares his intraparty enemies’ desire to make voting a miserable experience for the minority voters who happen to be Democrats. Indeed, voter suppression may have become the one essential unifying principle of the Party of Lincoln.
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What kills me is that someONE voted for these power-hungry freaks.
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LX.com, a NBC news website, reported on Tuesday that DeSantis’ ballot in 2016 was rejected because Flagler County officials deemed his signature did not match the one on file with the state.
Under Florida law, if a mail-in ballot is rejected, the voter has an opportunity to fix it at their local elections office, a process called a “cure.” When DeSantis attempted to cure his 2016 ballot, it was rejected as well, LX reported.
If a senatorial candidate (which he was in 2016) can have both their original ballot and their cure attempt rejected based on signature matching, then how the heck is an even stricter version of it with fewer comparison examples supposed to be relied on for every voter in the state?
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He is a real POS.
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How accurate is the political analysis in this article?
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Looks pretty accurate… Giuliani’s circus sideshow of lies in GA legislature meetings gave loads of cover for the GOP majority to push restrictions, and the response to corporate blowback seems to have varied from “they’ve been deceived by the ‘woke’ propoganda” to “let’s make laws to specifically punish these companies for their speech about this, just ignore that doing so would be explicitly unconstitutional”.
Also:
This week, the actor Will Smith and the director Antoine Fuqua announced that a movie they’d planned to make in Georgia would now be filmed somewhere else. The title—is it too on the nose?—is “Emancipation.”
Ouch, hadn’t heard that announcement, and oh the irony…
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Lawyers for Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company the Arizona Senate hired to lead a recount of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million general election ballots, are asking a judge to keep secret its procedures for the recount and shut out the public as well as the press from a hearing in which the documents might be discussed.
The prospect that a court might block voters from seeing how their ballots will be handled during the unprecedented undertaking adds to mounting concerns about its transparency, given that its funders remain a mystery and news briefings were immediately placed on an indefinite hiatus.
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An accusation of Republican-on-Republican voter suppression.
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Conservative porn?
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Serves 'em right.
Love the boots though.
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