2022 Midterms

[Ripster42]

Any foreign group can find domestic stooges to act as faces for their foreign money.

What are the site rules against conspiracy theories?

[gondrin]

Nothing says like screwing over your own voters then this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...3c4446955f4f38

Texas GOP voters are getting tripped up by their own party's new voting restrictions

New Texas voting laws are causing a lot of problems for Republican voters, according to a Newsy report ahead of the primary run-off elections Tuesday.

As the report notes, several new rules passed by Texas Republicans in the wake of the 2020 elections put more stringent requirements on mail-in ballots.

One rule passed by Republican lawmakers is mandates that voters must put either their drivers license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number on the envelope containing their ballot.

This has led to a higher number of rejected ballots: Ballot rejections in 2020 ran about 0.8 percent, but in 2022 they're at 12 percent. The number might seem low, but that's equal to at least 7,000 people in one Texas county.

Republicans had a higher rate of error than Democrats, meaning there are thousands more Republicans in the state whose ballots aren't being counted in the primary election.

In March, during the initial primary elections, just 16 of the state’s largest counties had more than 18,000 mail-in ballots that were rejected because they missed the tiny fine print.

One elderly Republican voter noted that the question about the driver's license or social security number was printed so small she couldn't read it. Newsy said they calculated it was seven-point font. National election standards that benefit visually impaired people require nothing can be smaller ten-point font.

The first time Texas voted with the new ballot was March 1, so when the state passed the law in December, they had very little time to print the ballots and get them out to voters. But, two months later, for the run-off elections, the ballots are still a mess, the report said.

[DarkTZeratul]

Nothing says like screwing over your own voters then this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...3c4446955f4f38

Womp womp.

[Edge-]

Nothing says like screwing over your own voters then this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...3c4446955f4f38

Republicans had a higher rate of error than Democrats, meaning there are thousands more Republicans in the state whose ballots aren't being counted in the primary election.

You love to fuckin see it.

[gondrin]

You love to fuckin see it.

While I know it won't happen, if this is what turns Texas blue, it would be the ultimate irony.

[Smitzelplix]

Nothing says like screwing over your own voters then this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...3c4446955f4f38

One elderly Republican voter noted that the question about the driver's license or social security number was printed so small she couldn't read it. Newsy said they calculated it was seven-point font. National election standards that benefit visually impaired people require nothing can be smaller ten-point font.

I don't doubt that the print was made obnoxiously small on purpose to try to trip people up so the ballot could be rejected, but all its going to do is make it harder for the elderly which tend to vote Republican.

[Kaleredar]

I don't doubt that the print was made obnoxiously small on purpose to try to trip people up so the ballot could be rejected, but all its going to do is make it harder for the elderly which tend to vote Republican.

I think they're running off the overall assumption that more democrats are mail-in ballot voters, so that even if percentage-wise more mail-in republican voters are getting screwed it wont matter because the larger percentage of rejected mail-in ballots overall, which favor democrats, is still good for the GOP compared to the larger number of in-person republican votes that aren't rejected that would theoretically favor Republicans.

It's not like they cared about their voters anyway, they just need numbers to keep them in power.

[Cthulhu 2020]

What are the site rules against conspiracy theories?

No clue about AIPAC but it's not exactly a secret that foreign countries funnel money into US PACs because our campaign finance laws are garbage. The post you quoted isn't wrong. Any foreign group can find domestic stooges.

[Edge-]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/polit...ton/index.html

Texas just out here embarassing the whole-ass nation by re-nominating, and likely re-electing, an Attorney General who has been under indictment for 7 years and has had numerous whistleblowers within his office highlighting wrongdoing and other illegality he's engaged in.

Man, the good folks of Texas need to be able to leave that hellhole of a state and abandon their criminally retarded brethren.

[Poopymonster]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/polit...ton/index.html

Texas just out here embarassing the whole-ass nation by re-nominating, and likely re-electing, an Attorney General who has been under indictment for 7 years and has had numerous whistleblowers within his office highlighting wrongdoing and other illegality he's engaged in.

Man, the good folks of Texas need to be able to leave that hellhole of a state and abandon their criminally retarded brethren.

That's the thing. What did he run on? "Brown People Bad?" "Trump Did Nothing Wrong"? "Nuke Gay Barren Wombs for Jesus"?
As long as they perceive he's punishing "the right people", or should I the Left people, they'll keep voting for him. Unless he Christie's himself.

[Edge-]

That's the thing. What did he run on? "Brown People Bad?" "Trump Did Nothing Wrong"? "Nuke Gay Barren Wombs for Jesus"?
As long as they perceive he's punishing "the right people", or should I the Left people, they'll keep voting for him. Unless he Christie's himself.

Wild that he beat the much more Trump-friendly George P. Bush.

I guess the Bush family legacy is dead. Which is good for separate reasons, political dynasties are dumb as fuck. *glares at Romney*

[Gestopft]

I guess the Bush family legacy is dead. Which is good for separate reasons, political dynasties are dumb as fuck. *glares at Romney*

Think I'd be happier about that...but then you see who they chose OVER the Bush dynasty.

[Ripster42]

No clue about AIPAC but it's not exactly a secret that foreign countries funnel money into US PACs because our campaign finance laws are garbage. The post you quoted isn't wrong. Any foreign group can find domestic stooges.

You get prosecuted if anyone finds out. You think nazis aren't going to be combing through aipac's finances?

[Lynarii]

You get prosecuted if anyone finds out. You think nazis aren't going to be combing through aipac's finances?

The problem is that the rules on PACs are designed explicitly to hide where money is coming from, that's why they exist.

[postman1782]

The problem is that the rules on PACs are designed explicitly to hide where money is coming from, that's why they exist.

Everyone needs to vote to get rid of Citizen's United, but they won't.

[Deus Mortis]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sa...?siteid=yhoof2
San Francisco ousts progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in heated recall

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco on Tuesday has voted to recall progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a heated campaign that bitterly divided Democrats over crime, policing and public safety reform.

Partial returns showed Boudin losing in what is expected to be a low turnout election. Early returns showed 61% of votes in favor of the recall.

Boudin, 41, was a first-time political candidate who narrowly won office in November 2019 as part of a national wave of progressive prosecutors who pledged to seek alternatives to incarceration, end the racist war on drugs and hold police officers to account.

But his time in office coincided with a frustrating and frightening pandemic in which viral footage of brazen shoplifting and attacks against mostly older Asian American people drove some residents to mount a recall campaign of the former public defender and son of left-wing activists.

Recall proponents said Boudin was ideologically inflexible and inexperienced, often siding with criminals instead of victims. Recall opponents said the recall was a Republican power grab meant to undermine public safety reforms.

San Francisco has long struggled with open drug dealing, vandalism, auto theft and home burglaries. Political experts say the political newcomer who narrowly won in 2019 was in the crosshairs of outside forces that made him an easy target for public frustration.

Boudin was a baby when his parents, left-wing Weather Underground radicals, served as drivers in a botched 1981 robbery in New York that left two police officers and a security guard dead. They were sentenced to decades in prison.

While campaigning, he spoke of the pain of stepping through metal detectors to hug his parents and vowed to reform a system that tears apart families. Kathy Boudin was released on parole in 2003 and died of cancer in May. David Gilbert was granted parole in October.

The recall campaign against Boudin was backed by many of the same people who successfully ousted three liberal members of the San Francisco school board in February. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, however, easily beat a Republican-led recall last year.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ca...article_inline
California Gov. Gavin Newsom cruises to easy primary victory

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom cruised to an easy victory in Tuesday’s primary barely one year after surviving a recall attempt, advancing to the November general election where he will be an overwhelming favorite to defeat a little-known Republican state senator.

Early returns Tuesday showed Newsom receiving just over 60% of the vote. He was far ahead of second-place finisher Brian Dahle, a Republican state lawmaker and farmer from the sparsely populated northeast corner of the state that borders Oregon and Nevada.

[Rasulis]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sa...?siteid=yhoof2
San Francisco ousts progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in heated recall


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ca...article_inline
California Gov. Gavin Newsom cruises to easy primary victory

I voted no on the recall. There is the perception that crime in San Francisco has gotten worse. The statistics say otherwise.

San Francisco Crime Dashboard

Homicide is up 11% from 18 to 20. Which is a whooping 2.22 per 100,000. There are cities in the south with homicide rates of more than 30 times that.

Burglary actually went down 26%. Robbery is down 2%.

Motor vehicle theft up 2%. That's why car ownership in San Francisco has been on the decline at a rate of 2% per year.

Larceny theft (shop lifting) is up by 20%. Yeah. That's not good.

[Deus Mortis]

I voted no on the recall. There is the perception that crime in San Francisco has gotten worse. The statistics say otherwise.

San Francisco Crime Dashboard

Homicide is up 11% from 18 to 20. Which is a whooping 2.22 per 100,000. There are cities in the south with homicide rates of more than 30 times that.

Burglary actually went down 26%. Robbery is down 2%.

Motor vehicle theft up 2%. That's why car ownership in San Francisco has been on the decline at a rate of 2% per year.

Larceny theft (shop lifting) is up by 20%. Yeah. That's not good.

There is more crime though, 7.8% more. 20,685 this half vs last year where it was at 19,196. Rape increasing 9%, and assault by 11% is also concerning. If I am not mistaken you're the one that lives in SF right? How locked down was the city this time last year, because I could see that being a reason for less crime last year so this year the rates look worse since by the nature of more people being out and about.

PS. That link is neat, I wish that was available in more places.

[Rasulis]

There is more crime though, 7.8% more. 20,685 this half vs last year where it was at 19,196. Rape increasing 9%, and assault by 11% is also concerning. If I am not mistaken you're the one that lives in SF right? How locked down was the city this time last year, because I could see that being a reason for less crime last year so this year the rates look worse since by the nature of more people being out and about.

PS. That link is neat, I wish that was available in more places.

Rape is up. However, we are still talking about very low number (97) for a big city like San Francisco.

Assault is up. Which is not good. Keep in mind that it is mostly constrained within the homeless population. The neighborhoods that generated the most crime reports are The Tenderloin District, Market Street/South of Market, The Mission District, Western Addition and Bayview/Hunters Point.

The Tenderloin District of San Francisco has the unfortunate honor of being the worst in the city for both violent crime and property crime.

There's a concentration of homeless population, seedy residence hotels, and many low income residents, along with a higher incidence of prostitution, drug dealing and drug use.

In spite of this, in the daytime even the Tenderloin isn't particularly dangerous in terms of violent crime. We go there once in a while. At night, it's a different story. I would not go there at night even with a full police escort.

Is there any reason to go there? There are some good restaurants in this area, thriving Vietnamese community and some popular music venues. The Great American Music Hall and the Warfield Theater are in the Tenderloin. Also, the San Francisco theater district near Union Square sits on the edge of the Tenderloin; the Curran Theater and the Geary Theater are two major theaters located about a block west of Union Square.

Many of San Francisco's most popular hotels are in the Union Square area, just a few blocks from the Tenderloin, but the crime doesn't seem to spill over.

Anyway, enough meandering. The increase in crime is San Francisco is driven primarily by the increase in petty larceny (fancy words for shop lifting) which went up from 11,151 to 13,424. Not good. However, I prefer to live in a city with high shop lifting incidents than high homicide rates.

The irony here is that the recall effort was primarily driven by districts west of Twin Peaks (Sunset, Richmond, Golden Gate Height, Sea Cliff, etc.) where crimes are almost non existent.

[Deus Mortis]

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Appreciate the in-depth explanation.