You'd think they'd be paying attention during the hearing

Never was about fraud. Media drove that false story.

Yeah it should be pseudonymous

To enable my random sampling auditing scheme

Barcode on ballot, and a list of matching names to barcodes held by a competing government organization (the auditing org)

It can be done in away that it requires many witnesses to unmask a ballot to a name, and you can ensure that the auditors themselves don't even see the ballot, but they can present the voter with the ballot to verify it

Kinda Manhattan-projecty. Me like.

Christmas is canceled due to Christ.

Lol wtf?

I think you can add other safeguards like 2-factor authentication - for voters that have mobile phones. You can register your mobile number when registering to vote. When you go to vote, the machine sends a text message to your phone that provides a code to initiate the ballot. There are probably other ways to use technology to safely vote. Many bank online now, so if we trust our finances to be done safely and securely via technology, there must be a way to provide adequately secure voting.

Thanksgiving is canceled due to thanksgiving.

Oh, you absolutely know the twitter lefty squad will try to cancel Christmas and call it xmas. They've been trying that for years.

Ironically this time, it wasn't for being a "racist" holiday

Native Americans do NOT have a legitimate concern. You can only do so much for people. No good deed goes unpunished, I always say. Smh.

Anyone's thoughts on the recent SCOTUS ruling for keeping religious institutions open?

I like the 'If liquor stores' argument. Puts a fine point on it.

Then again, 'if liquor stores' means pretty much anything else, imo. Nonessential.

Places of worship are seen as essential by many.

Indeed. Much more so than booze, to my reckoning.

That’s because religion is protected in the constitution..

That and there are clauses specifically prohibiting the restriction of religious freedoms.

Plus it's a freedom of worship issue. Just no place for government banning it. They aren't infants and it's not frivolous, like Burning Man.

And as I always say: If you want to change it, do it the right way.

Yes. What Maw said.

Again, what Maw said.

Same goes for Unthanksgiving.

It's funny... The origin of the Christmas holiday and most of its traditions are not Christian at all. When Constantine converted the Roman Empire to Christianity in the 4th century, he worked with the Church to make Christianity palatable to the Roman Pagans. Part of that effort was to assimilate many of the Pagan traditions and rituals into the Christian tradition. Prior to then, most believed Christ was born in the spring given the details in the story - not in the middle of winter. As part of the assimilation the Pagan Solstice /Yuletide celebration where families gathered, feasted, exchanged gifts, decorated trees was transformed into Christmas.

So, I chuckle just a little when people get tweaked about taking Christ out of Christmas....

Gotta ritualize somehow. That was just as good as any other way. Still celebration of Christianity to Christians, which I am not.

Except they do it for completely different reasons than you've otherwise outlined.

That and it's become part of the faith.

Yup

I'm a Meist tho.

I'm a theist.

I grew up in Christian schools.

I just consider myself a theist.

Grew up Christian. Didn't take.

As a Christian...Christmas is a joke to me. It’s completely blasphemous

The church has only officially recognized the worship aspect of celebrating Christ's Mass. The rest of it all predates Christianity. Probably even the commercialization. 😉

Anything other than precisely what a person follows is blasphemous.