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03-26-2019, 12:54 PM | #1 | |
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A mobile app created in the last 3 weeks of AOC's campaign accounted for 12% of her voter turnout. Canvassers go to wherever people are gathered and match them to the voter registration list (as opposed to knocking on doors, making phone calls--things young people hate). Now being rolled out as a public benefit corporation, it will only be used in the campaigns of candidates who don’t accept corporate money.
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03-26-2019, 01:23 PM | #3 |
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North Carolina proved the mail in system can be manipulated.
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Imagine doing all that in 30 seconds in a cramped voting booth while you're late to work and just waited in line for two hours, the machine is broken, they "don't have your name" on the list of registered voters, and you can't even decipher the obtuse wording of the ballot measure.
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03-27-2019, 12:33 AM | #5 |
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How do you know the election outcomes are legit?
What about the people who don't give a rat's ass, give it to a friend, is a resident foreign spy, or loses it in a poker game?
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03-27-2019, 08:20 AM | #6 |
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Once upon a time, the League of Women voters would mail sample ballots to all voters weeks before an election. Then voters could plan on what they would vote for long before going to polls.
It no longer happens. They used high tech - US Mail. |
03-27-2019, 08:23 AM | #7 |
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I tried to tell them that was their raison d'etre at the PA state convention in 1997 and they took no interest.
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03-27-2019, 08:44 AM | #8 |
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The app represented 12% of AOCs voter connection, i.e. how many people were actually talked to? This can lead to greater than 12% turnout, as the people talked to have a multiplier effect.
But it's no panacea, and doesn't contain anything proprietary that can't be developed in haste again. It's just the voter database in a form where you can register in a bar that you talked to a voter in public. Then you can skip their door when you go door knocking. Or if they are enthusiastic, you can hit them up for money. The old way is, you talk to them in the bar and you write their address down on a piece of paper and bring it back to the campaign office. The app is easier. (If you like being accosted on your train platform, by interns working for politicians, asking for your address, this app is for you!) |
03-27-2019, 01:02 PM | #9 | |
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People can actually have their ballot rejected because the signature on their ballot is deemed to "not match" their signature on file. To the question, is "a matching signature" a valid way of determining who a person is-- is it better or worse than showing up in person with a non-photo ID*, like a utility bill with your name on it? *You can do this in 17 states. Secretary of State Dennis Richardson (R), determined we had .002 percent [of "suspicious ballots"] in the 2016 election. Richardson said it’s time for President Trump to back up what he says [about voter fraud] with facts. When officials make unsubstantiated claims ... “it causes greater distrust of the government. … I want to make sure that the citizens of the state can trust their [voting] system.” Understand, Bruce? VOTER PARTICIPATION is what makes a Democracy, and Turnout in Oregon increased more between 2012 and 2016 than in any other state. Overall voter turnout in the state reached 68 percent in the 2016 presidential election, up from 64 percent during the 2012 non-AVR [automatic voter registration] election period. Nationally, voter turnout increased by only 1.6 points. More people voting is GOOD. Democracy is GOOD.
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