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Postal ballots

lundi 28 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Postal ballots in Pennsylvania require two different envelopes, one inside the other. If the voter omits the inner envelope, per vote won't be counted. This could reject tens of thousands of ballots.

It is another reason to do early voting, not vote by mail.

A Republican senator proposed a bill to require all postal ballots to be counted in just 48 hours.

This surely won't be enacted — and I doubt it is constitutional — but it illustrates the "win by hook or by crook" attitude of Republicans.

*As Trump Sows Chaos, Democrats Urged to Increase Push for In-Person Voting—Early If Possible.*

2 million deaths

lundi 28 septembre 2020 à 02:00

WHO: if we don't take effective collective action to curb the spread of Covid-19, there could be 2 million deaths from Covid-19 before a vaccine starts to slow it.

Destruction done to the ecosphere

lundi 28 septembre 2020 à 02:00

David Attenborough's Witness Statement shows us the destruction we have done to Earth's ecosphere, then tells us what we need to do to save what is left.

Climate strike events

lundi 28 septembre 2020 à 02:00

On September 25 there were over 3,200 climate strike events.

I wrote to the organizers to ask them to make it possible to find the events without running nonfree software. That would be an easy change to make. I hope that I will be able to participate in the future.

What is the use of a virtual protest, though? The idea of a protest rally is to show the public and the news media where people stand. If only the participants can see the rally, it doesn't seem to do anything.

Who is on the Supreme Court

lundi 28 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Howard Zinn said, who is on the Supreme Court is not as important as what the American people demand.

But I don't think we should relax and stop trying to block the wrecker's choice.