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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Why are some seats still not decided?
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:00:54 -0000 (UTC)
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On Nov 20, 2024 at 9:40:11 AM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

> On 11/20/24 9:19 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 
>>  On Nov 20, 2024 at 8:03:59 AM PST, "Dimensional Traveler"
>> <dtravel@sonic.net>
>>  wrote:
>>>  On 11/19/2024 12:22 PM, shawn wrote:
>>>>    On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:18:03 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
>>>>    wrote:
>>>>>    On Nov 19, 2024 at 9:27:38 AM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>>>>    On 11/19/2024 9:14 AM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>      Can anyone enlighten me on why 1 Senate seat and several House seats are
>>>>>>>      STILL undecided a solid two weeks after voting closed?
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>      I get that races can be very close but surely two weeks should be plenty
>>>>>>>      to do counts and recounts.
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>    Yes, sometimes takes even longer.
>>>>> 
>>>>>    It didn't used to. Seems like the more we advance technologically, the
>>>>>  harder
>>>>>    it is to have an election.
>>>>    
>>>>    There's also the fact that the population of potential voters is
>>>>    growing every year.
>>> 
>>>  Not to mention that one of the two US political parties is fighting to
>>>  _stop_ use of the advanced technologies for voting, wanting to force it
>>>  back to hand marked paper ballots that can only be counted by hand.
>>  
>>  But when we did it that way, we had elections completed within days, not
>>  months.
> 
> The actual problem is "vote by mail" which is an idiotic system that no 
> other country in the world uses.

Yep.

> And guess which political party is pushing that?... (Hint: It's the one 
> that cheats.)

Oh, Gavvy couldn't get permanent mail voting passed fast enough.