Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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The plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but Ursula's tale of the invalidated absentee ballot highlights one of the problems with mail-in voting; resolving disputed ballots is costly, difficult, time consuming, and in this case leaves the disenfranchised with little meaningful recourse. The best solution is probably to move our primary into the mid-summer, so the Elections Board can track down the 2 or 3 percent of ballots that don't have good signature matches. That means Spending More Money on Elections operations, but look; voting and is one of the two fundamental operations of representative government [maintaining order is the other], so spending money on this sort of thing is almost certainly worth it, and helps give people confidence that government is working for them.
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updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 08:43 02 October 2006
