Seabass wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:56 am
I'm sure there's nothing shady going on here. The Republicans would never manipulate the vote. But if they
did cheat, I'm sure the Democrat party does it too, so who cares?
15 percent of young Parkland voters' ballots rejected, study shows
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/polit ... story.html
About 1 in 7 mail-in ballots submitted by college-age voters in Parkland was rejected or failed to arrive in time to be counted, according to a new analysis. The findings are adding to questions about the reliability and fairness of the Florida electoral system, including its ballot signature requirement that became a flash point in the November recount between U.S. Sen Rick Scott, R, and the Democrat he ousted from office, Bill Nelson.
That's a rather big "or" there. If they don't arrive in time.... well, it stands to reason. 1 in 7 is about 14.2 percent, not 15 percent.
Anyway - Parkland has a population of 32,000 -- about 7% of which are college age (18-24) (and not all college age people go to college) - so call it 2300 college age. Most don't vote -- but we can use the overall turnout of 75% in the 2016 election - call it 1725 college age people voted at all, and use the 31% of voters who voted by mail, that's 534 mail in voters. That's a grand total of about 75 ballots rejected OR -- big OR there - OR couldn't be counted because they were mailed in late.
We don't know how many were mailed in late, but wouldn't it be interesting to see exactly why these few ballots were mailed in late vs. rejected for other reasons, and what the other reasons were?
Or, we could just blare the headline -- 15% of Parkland Voters (college age, who barely vote, and some of whom did not mail their ballots in timely.... and imply a massive Republican conspiracy to strip them of their voting rights.
The Florida mail in ballot is a rather simple form - it can't get much simpler. We're talking Parkland - almost all white, very upscale community - and we're talking the young adults who are college age from the white, upscale community -- and we are to assume a conspiracy if they can't fill in the little fucking ovals and sign it at the bottom and drop it in the fucking mailbox on time?
Stop the madness.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar