Message from @Doc

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2021-01-03 22:17:36 UTC  

Anything with <=20% fill and anything that has exclusive selections having more than one selection are adjudicated.

2021-01-03 22:19:00 UTC  

Also I think recently they had said to use checkmarks in ballots rather than fill out the marked area.

2021-01-03 22:19:08 UTC  

Which would increase adjudication rates.

2021-01-03 22:24:38 UTC  

One of the biggest issues for me, though, is the assumption that the letter next to your name (party affiliation) means that one is willing to cheat (compromise their integrity) in order to gain the upper hand for their party. I can tell you that absolutely none of people that I know who volunteer to help with elections would ever debase themselves in that manner - and I know people on both sides of the aisle that do election work.

They consider their service in support of our democracy as virtually a sacred duty. That doesn't mean that some of them don't get a little haughty at times, but it would never lead to them turning a blind eye to or participating in fraudulent activity. I have to imagine it is the same for the vast majority of election workers.

2021-01-03 22:25:39 UTC  

This is the idea behind Hanlon's Razor and Occam's Razor.

2021-01-03 22:26:15 UTC  

Why on earth would you presume the worst from someone you don't know? It's more often than not more correct to give people the benefit of the doubt until they prove otherwise.

2021-01-03 22:26:44 UTC  

This goes in hand with making really weird accusations against people that have otherwise done nothing wrong.

2021-01-03 22:27:15 UTC  

Presumption of innocence.

2021-01-03 22:29:03 UTC  

Which is inherently more likely from the outside perspective without additional info/bias?
Fair election.
Fraudulent Election.
Easy answer.

2021-01-03 22:30:41 UTC  

Yeah... It happens on both sides, sadly. We are our own worst enemy. Almost none of the people who voted for Trump are fascists or racists. And almost none of the people that voted for Biden are socialist/communist/antifa etc.

And yet everyone focuses on the "almost" and very few on the "none".

2021-01-03 22:31:27 UTC  

Its very satisfactory to point out the idiot. It makes you feel clever.

2021-01-03 22:32:27 UTC  

This is why you, as a politician, need to point out the idiots in 2020

2021-01-03 22:32:34 UTC  

Agreed.

2021-01-03 22:32:39 UTC  

your followers needs someone to feel better than.

2021-01-03 22:32:42 UTC  

In a tactful way.

2021-01-03 22:32:49 UTC  

This is what happens when people regress culturally.

2021-01-03 22:32:54 UTC  

If I agree with you, what does that say of me?

2021-01-03 22:32:55 UTC  

So you don't turn into another Hillary.

2021-01-03 22:33:08 UTC  

@TaLoN132 that you are human?

2021-01-03 22:33:37 UTC  

@TaLoN132 just note this; if you want to be better than the rest, be so by merit. Not by empty words.

2021-01-03 22:33:44 UTC  

Power struggles are just human.

2021-01-03 22:34:01 UTC  

there lies the great divider

2021-01-03 22:34:05 UTC  

the talker or the doer.

2021-01-03 22:34:20 UTC  

Leader and follower, yes.

2021-01-03 22:34:27 UTC  

the boss and the employee.

2021-01-03 22:34:45 UTC  

well, yes and no. You can follow great men and still acquire merit.

2021-01-03 22:35:00 UTC  

A good corporal can determine an outcome.

2021-01-03 22:35:21 UTC  

But one must take great care who one follows.

2021-01-03 22:35:24 UTC  

Sure, but it allocates you a position of power when you're doing your work well.

2021-01-03 22:36:11 UTC  

It means you can do many more things, like ask for a raise and not be laughed out of the room.

2021-01-03 22:37:20 UTC  

IMO seems like Life is just hierarchy on hierarchy on hierarchy, etc.

2021-01-03 22:38:25 UTC  

oh, it is

2021-01-03 22:38:39 UTC  

put three kids in a room, and in 10 min you have a hierarchy

2021-01-03 22:38:53 UTC  

it isnt a matter of having one. It is a matter of which one.

2021-01-03 22:39:09 UTC  

It's a big clusterf&$@ of a mess.

2021-01-03 22:39:18 UTC  

The alternative is my solution. I denounce all contemporary hierarchies, as I belong to one since long eradicated.

2021-01-03 22:39:21 UTC  

So I isolate.

2021-01-03 22:39:53 UTC  

I only make trades with the world. I do not in any way belong to it.

2021-01-03 22:39:54 UTC  

You're still in a more broad hierarchy though!

2021-01-03 22:40:01 UTC  

You can't escape your species!