Given the makeup of the Supreme Court after 3 conservative appointments to the court, I was concerned as to what the outcome of the Court’s decision might be. Whether they would agree with Texas and trump was the concern. The italicized sentence is basically the Court’s decision. The note from Alito and Thomas being an acceptance of the motion for review and not grant the petitioner relief. “The justices’ dissents, though, are considerably less...
Read More »2020 Voter Fraud
First, look at the political make up the states from where all the noise of voter fraud is coming. These states have: Republican legislatures as determined by Gerrymandering. A trifecta (possibly) which is a Republican Governor and legislature. A historical turnout of voters in 2020. A higher turnout of Democratic voters than Republican. A reversal of votes from Repubs to Democrats historically or from 2016 to 2020 (MI, WI, and PA) Had a normal percentage...
Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court Blows Up Absentee Voting
By all accounts this last Thursday September 11th, Wisconsin was all set to have a smooth election this fall. The state’s 1,850 municipal clerks had printed at least 2.3 million absentee ballots in preparation of another surge in absentee voting (which occurred earlier this year – April) and had already mailed 378,482 of them. They were well under way to meeting the Sept. 17 deadline established by state law when ballots had to be mailed. A deadline by...
Read More »Digital technology as used in today’s campaigning
I just read the this article: Trump’s Digital Advantage is Freaking out Democratic Strategist. It is a NYT’s opinion piece. I know and have known about the use of collecting our data to sell us stuff. The concern for me is that there is almost no way for an individual to stop having their self tracked and mined any more based on this article. What is worse though than just having it used to sell me stuff is having it used as what clearly has become...
Read More »Interview with Andrew Yang
Now that Andrew Yang has made it into the first debate by meeting the fundraising threshold, and being on Morning Joe this morning, it is time to post this interview of him via Freakonomics. I was impressed by his thought approach. He is the first person who is talking about the economy as a ecosystem of society. That is, it’s not just about making money. He does not come out and say it as I would but I think he is thinking about a question I have...
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