Yeah, "all fail" is definitely an acceptable outcome. In some ways, I'm happy to have people reject the entire concept of Arnie's Special Election.
Re: 77, you say that it rankles to be partisan enough to say No simply because I don't want to hand any aid to the GOP. I did note other problems (I think the measure approaches redistricting reform from the completely wrong angle by changing who draws the lines rather than how they're drawn; I don't like the fact that a majority of the entire state can force a bad district map on a minority in one part; and I thought the referendum part of the measure was designed to be misleading, because the new map would go into effect regardless of the outcome -- the people would only get to vote on whether to run another round of redrawing the lines, in which case at the end of that round, yet another new map goes into effect, again without anyone's permission.) Leaving those parts aside, I think if you don't see that helping the GOP was enough reason to reject it, you're missing just how Orwellian they've become. The blue states cannot afford to unilaterally disarm, in the fight against theocratic fascism.
Oh, and yes, the printers are scheduled to be available next spring. (Or at least, that's what they told us at poll-clerk training camp.) On the downside, this means they will no longer provide optical scan ballots at the polls. I plan on remaining registered as a permanent absentee voter. Aside from preferring to have my ballot both stored and counted in a medium I can verify, it's just convenient.
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Re: not much to say
Date: 10 November 2005 10:09 (UTC)Re: 77, you say that it rankles to be partisan enough to say No simply because I don't want to hand any aid to the GOP. I did note other problems (I think the measure approaches redistricting reform from the completely wrong angle by changing who draws the lines rather than how they're drawn; I don't like the fact that a majority of the entire state can force a bad district map on a minority in one part; and I thought the referendum part of the measure was designed to be misleading, because the new map would go into effect regardless of the outcome -- the people would only get to vote on whether to run another round of redrawing the lines, in which case at the end of that round, yet another new map goes into effect, again without anyone's permission.) Leaving those parts aside, I think if you don't see that helping the GOP was enough reason to reject it, you're missing just how Orwellian they've become. The blue states cannot afford to unilaterally disarm, in the fight against theocratic fascism.
Oh, and yes, the printers are scheduled to be available next spring. (Or at least, that's what they told us at poll-clerk training camp.) On the downside, this means they will no longer provide optical scan ballots at the polls. I plan on remaining registered as a permanent absentee voter. Aside from preferring to have my ballot both stored and counted in a medium I can verify, it's just convenient.