mrcleanup

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[–] mrcleanup 1 points 7 hours ago

Oh that makes sense, they do have a separate process there to handle all the people that are convinced that there's an in person process, but it's still just a mail in ballot and a county drop box, they just don't have time to try and convince you that you aren't special.

[–] mrcleanup 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe that was back when they still had in person voting in Washington, but it's just one type of ballot packet and mail or drop boxes now.

Maybe they held your hand and called it in person to make you feel better, but there's no different process in Washington State that's different than the mail in process.

[–] mrcleanup 1 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Yeah, no.

Even if you choose to pick up your mail in ballot in our office, and even if you drop off in the drop box in our office, you still got a mail in ballot and dropped it in a county drop box. Everyone can do that, you weren't special or different, just needy.

[–] mrcleanup 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Maybe so, but in that case doing it at home with your own mailbox meets that same criteria.

My point is that there isn't a different "in person" process. There's only one process; you get a mail ballot packet, you fill it out, and you drop off in a mailbox or county drop box.

[–] mrcleanup 5 points 2 days ago

But how will that be profitable?

[–] mrcleanup 1 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I work in elections in Washington, there is only mail in voting plus county drop boxes. Yes you can say you lost your ballot or didn't get it and come in for a replacement, but we give you the same mail in packet you world receive at home.

Yes you can drop it in the drop box in our office or you can take it home and mail it. But any voter can drop their mail in ballot off in our office as well. We don't have polling places or voting machines, or a way to separate out and assign race to a ballot so we could somehow treat those differently. They all come in as a big stack for processing.

Why do ballots get rejected? Mismatched signatures is the biggest reason. If your signature doesn't match what we have on file we mail you a form to fix it, we also text and email you. Maybe from demographic groups are less likely to respond? The other one is people who forget to sign, which follows the same procedure.

What I can say is that is there is some sort of disparity, it isn't happening in the ballot processing room.

[–] mrcleanup 1 points 4 days ago

Commented to my reps. Thanks!

[–] mrcleanup 2 points 5 days ago

Rock on, you are an inspiration to us all.

[–] mrcleanup 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Somehow I'm doubting that you keep all your computer files in your download folder. You still have to move it. My way just makes it obvious it needs to be filled instead of leaving it on the junk drawer.

And the physical desk analogy still holds. Yeah you put it in a folder in the drawer, but it's the wrong one. Unless you are specifying a custom filepath for each file, in which case, carry on.

[–] mrcleanup 9 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Rebuttal, with a physical desk you put things you need right now on top in the open. You wouldn't grab something off the printer and put it into a drawer first, then reopen the drawer to get it out of your need it now.

The desktop is "right now" workspace. Why bother to put it into a folder whose only purpose is not to take things out of to put elsewhere? I could at least understand people who download direct to documents... but that still leaves a mess to clean up with installers and such.

Downloading to the desktop is not only sane, but more efficient.

Leaving everything on your desktop is a different conversation though.

[–] mrcleanup 1 points 5 days ago

Bazzite was my first first into Linux. I loved it overall, the thing that eventually made me switch was that the login screen background was locked behind immutability. It's stupid, but matters to me. I'm on Garuda now and it has been great too.

[–] mrcleanup 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I haven't really been worried about people hacking my 3d printer to do... what?

Is this even really a problem? Are printer farm employees arriving in the morning to find all their printers have been hacked and are all printing Communist memes or something? Comrade surprised Pikachu perhaps? Is that a thing? Would someone hack my printer and print one please?

 

With this year's guardian games coming to a close along with the hoverboard preview, I'll admit that it was nice to let warlocks keep theirs, but I wonder when they will be releasing them to the other classes?

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