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Fun with Electronic Voting
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16/08/2018 16:18:12
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
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Security
Miscellaneous
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>>1. There is wide-spread voter supprssion in the USA - mostly targeting minorities. Do you agree with this or not John?

I see numerous loud claims but very few real-life examples. To turn the question around: have you traveled the states to confirm this "wide-spread" suppression or what is your certainty based on?

As I keep saying, if there's evidence then I enjoy the opportunity to change my mind- but if there's just shouty rhetoric, that seems incompatible with good evidence that's usually communicated more calmly.

Certainly I "get" the potential risk that some people might be disadvantaged by identification requirements or scrubbing of unresponsive residents- but I'd also ask whether you've ever been in another Western or third world nation at voting time ? If not, what is the certainty based on? Have you considered whether maybe the potential victims aren't as hopeless as the narrative requires and don't need a Great White Father to save them.

The recent Ohio example is pertinent. Claims of voter suppression went all the way to the Supreme Court before the objections were rejected and the State's strategies declared proper. There's just been a special election: where are all the Ohio citizens crying in protest that their vote was suppressed by those cruel strategies?

How does that fit the narrative?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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