thephan wrote:Heard Tyler Childers' song ‘Long Violent History’ this afternoon. For a twangy Appalachian the material is a bit of a shocker as he contrasts rural white culture to the events unfolding across America with the inequity and outright killing of back citizens with a supposition of what would happen if the situation was reversed. My music choice is mostly disassociated with Tyler Childers' genre and I suspect it slipped in as a recommendation because of John Prine, so it was jarring.

I'd give it a listen and wonder about what his core audience might be thinking when they hear the song. To me I am thinking that I might be able to be optimistic that America might be changing.

heyeaglefn wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Yeah my point was the media and social media attention paid to the "naked ballot" may have been counterproductive. The instructions are plain as day.

Think of it as an IQ test for your vote to count.

Careful, that's pretty close to what Trump would say. Only the smart and educated should be able to vote. Let's not go down the eugenics road.

Doesn't trump get a lot of his votes from the uneducated voters?

Monkeyboy wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Yeah my point was the media and social media attention paid to the "naked ballot" may have been counterproductive. The instructions are plain as day.

Think of it as an IQ test for your vote to count.

Careful, that's pretty close to what Trump would say. Only the smart and educated should be able to vote. Let's not go down the eugenics road.

Doesn't trump get a lot of his votes from the uneducated voters?

Yes, but that wasn't what I was saying. I'm just saying IQ isn't something that should be a prerequisite for voting.

heyeaglefn wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Yeah my point was the media and social media attention paid to the "naked ballot" may have been counterproductive. The instructions are plain as day.

Think of it as an IQ test for your vote to count.

Careful, that's pretty close to what Trump would say. Only the smart and educated should be able to vote. Let's not go down the eugenics road.

Doesn't trump get a lot of his votes from the uneducated voters?

Yes, but that wasn't what I was saying. I'm just saying IQ isn't something that should be a prerequisite for voting.

It already is to a certain extent, I think I saw something like 1%-2% of mail in votes are rejected. Not sure how many in person votes are rejected as well but there are ways to mess that up too.

Maybe someday we will be voting online or via an app and it will be as easy as clicking a button but until that point we are going to have people mess up their ballot by not following the directions unfortunately.

I am sure some smart people have messed it up too, maybe it is a following directions test more than an IQ test.

Monkeyboy wrote:I was just pointing out why some people might have trouble with the directions. The other posters were saying it was simple, but I don't think it's simple for everyone. And many people will think they are doing it correctly when they aren't. People are very bad at following instructions, even people with good educations.

ReadingPhilly wrote:

thephan wrote:Heard Tyler Childers' song ‘Long Violent History’ this afternoon. For a twangy Appalachian the material is a bit of a shocker as he contrasts rural white culture to the events unfolding across America with the inequity and outright killing of back citizens with a supposition of what would happen if the situation was reversed. My music choice is mostly disassociated with Tyler Childers' genre and I suspect it slipped in as a recommendation because of John Prine, so it was jarring.

I'd give it a listen and wonder about what his core audience might be thinking when they hear the song. To me I am thinking that I might be able to be optimistic that America might be changing.

his video accompanying the release got a lot of pub two weeks ago

Grotewold wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:I was just pointing out why some people might have trouble with the directions. The other posters were saying it was simple, but I don't think it's simple for everyone. And many people will think they are doing it correctly when they aren't. People are very bad at following instructions, even people with good educations.

That's been true of every voting method ever. The "naked ballot" controversy last week was dumb.

Grotewold wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Yeah my point was the media and social media attention paid to the "naked ballot" may have been counterproductive. The instructions are plain as day.

Think of it as an IQ test for your vote to count.

I mean ... pretty much. If you can't understand the instructions and don't bother to ask for help you would've probably fucked your in-person vote up, too.

Grotewold wrote:I tried to replicate the one from my license, yeah. Luckily the signature box is small.

But in ChesCo, at least, you can verify that your vote was processed before election day and, if not, go and vote on a provisional ballet

Werthless wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Yeah my point was the media and social media attention paid to the "naked ballot" may have been counterproductive. The instructions are plain as day.

Think of it as an IQ test for your vote to count.

I mean ... pretty much. If you can't understand the instructions and don't bother to ask for help you would've probably fucked your in-person vote up, too.

I'm low key worried about my signature matching. I have poor handwriting, and I've given up completely at trying to make it look good. I can't remember if my official signature is before or after I gave up completely.

ReadingPhilly wrote:

thephan wrote:Heard Tyler Childers' song ‘Long Violent History’ this afternoon. For a twangy Appalachian the material is a bit of a shocker as he contrasts rural white culture to the events unfolding across America with the inequity and outright killing of back citizens with a supposition of what would happen if the situation was reversed. My music choice is mostly disassociated with Tyler Childers' genre and I suspect it slipped in as a recommendation because of John Prine, so it was jarring.

I'd give it a listen and wonder about what his core audience might be thinking when they hear the song. To me I am thinking that I might be able to be optimistic that America might be changing.

his video accompanying the release got a lot of pub two weeks ago

Werthless wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Yeah my point was the media and social media attention paid to the "naked ballot" may have been counterproductive. The instructions are plain as day.

Think of it as an IQ test for your vote to count.

I mean ... pretty much. If you can't understand the instructions and don't bother to ask for help you would've probably fucked your in-person vote up, too.

I'm low key worried about my signature matching. I have poor handwriting, and I've given up completely at trying to make it look good. I can't remember if my official signature is before or after I gave up completely.

CFP wrote:

Grotewold wrote:I tried to replicate the one from my license, yeah. Luckily the signature box is small.

But in ChesCo, at least, you can verify that your vote was processed before election day and, if not, go and vote on a provisional ballet

Shit now we have to do ballet to vote? I'm fucked