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2016 Postmortem

Crash2Parties

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10. Blue State

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:41 PM

Dec 2016

scan-tron style ballots
paper audit trail
massive number of polling places
vote by mail forms come in the mail
online voter registration
etc., etc., etc...

Why? Because we *value* the democratic process.

Even though our votes are only worth 3/5 of a vote compared to someone in say, WY.

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75.3% of voters turned out in CA -- giving Hillary 4.2 million more votes than DT. [View all] pnwmom Dec 2016 OP

Didn't every registered voter get a ballot mailed to them... yallerdawg Dec 2016 #1

I'm not sure it works quite that way (I have relatives there, and I think they pnwmom Dec 2016 #3

Still it's worth the wait for participation . K&R lunasun Dec 2016 #4

No. We all have the option of mail in ballots. Control-Z Dec 2016 #5

Exactly DK504 Dec 2016 #14

You have to sign up for mail-in voting in CA, but that's all you have to do. MrModerate Dec 2016 #8

You can actually do it on line. n/t Control-Z Dec 2016 #17

No, that was Oregon quakerboy Dec 2016 #15

Thank you, CA BeyondGeography Dec 2016 #2

"The West is the best"-Jim Morrison. jalan48 Dec 2016 #6

That's only because there's no voter suppression in CA Xipe Totec Dec 2016 #7

He could win any state under those conditions. GOP governors were *bragging* about votor supression Crash2Parties Dec 2016 #11

I think that's sorta my point, sarcastically speaking. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2016 #12

Something to consider in her margin of victory, that 4.2 million ffr Dec 2016 #9

Blue State Crash2Parties Dec 2016 #10

I'm happy to admit ThirdEye Dec 2016 #13

Thank you. I hate that meme, for obvious reasons. pnwmom Dec 2016 #18

You nailed it. It truly was the sexism. duffyduff Dec 2016 #19

In my polling station alameda county, long lines... abundant polling stations MyNameIsKhan Dec 2016 #16