No one is saying studies should stop. Popping up and suggesting otherwise as if this nutjob has a point is just helping prop them up.

Journalists really milking that headline.

Why doubt? The party has made it part of their platform to distrust the voting process. It sounds like a threat because it is one.

Ah yes - Bird-Swine flu. That sounds about right for this decade.

They aren’t talking about firing them from a job.

Apparently he was going to: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-shock-comic-was-set-to-call

I mean…yeah, ok. I don’t think a single incident from 2 decades ago is exactly a sign this is common, but it’s precedent I suppose. Would narcan even help with something like that?

…Narcan?

*Actually decided to click through to the article for this one.

Since 2020, Griswold has made available at least $5 million in grant money for more physical security at election sites, which has allowed counties to take measures such as installing bulletproof glass or having Narcan on hand in case fentanyl is deployed as a chemical weapon.

I know fentanyl is the big scary drug of the decade but…is that something that happens? That sounds insane.

Nobody knows what’s going in inside that melon except him, but it really does reek of the old mindset of colonials “discovering” lands where people had been living already for millennia, and assuming they’re too dumb to be worth considering. Or even making a spectacle of them like they’re some sort of animal.

Even if it’s not intentionally malicious, that sort of disregard has some amount of bigotry attached.

Seems a good place to post everyone’s regular reminder to not talk to the police.

And to be clear, I’m not saying this kid is at fault in any way. It’s just very useful info to have that may help save others from similar outcomes.

The number is connected to the ballot, but not your name. It’s a system to verify the registrar issued the ballot, not to track individual votes.

Mail-ins have a name on the outside of the envelope, not on the ballot itself. In person, I believe the standard practice is to check-in in some way, providing a record that this specific person voted, but not their specific choices. The specifics will vary by state, but that’s the gist.

Ballots don’t have names on them. Otherwise, yeah, all questions that should have been asked.

What’s the deal with the shopped on safety gear?

No. Just the Trump thing. Conflating that with anything else you said is a very weird bit of normalization for the former.

I’m unclear what the gameplay will be like. The vibe feels like something between DRG and Outlast Trials?

and why they still exist

Does that really require inquiry? It’s for more money, fucking obviously.

Some states have lifetime DL terms, while others are still ridiculously long.

That’s fucking dumb. I hope you’re able to rectify it. Sorry you have to deal with that shit.

Won’t matter if it pushes it past Jan 6th and the vote isn’t certified.