Polls: Society & Politics

The Georgia State Election Board voted on Friday to force counties to hand-count all ballots cast on Election Day, a move critics say could significantly delay the reporting of results in the battleground state and inject chaos into the post-election period.

The new rule, which passed on a 3-2 vote, runs counter to extensive legal advice from the top election official and law enforcement officials in the state. A nonpartisan collective of local election officials had also objected to the change.

The new rule is the latest in a stream of right-wing election policies passed by the State Election Board over the past few months. The board has come under increasing pressure from critics already concerned that it has been rewriting the rules of the game in a key swing state to favor former President Donald J. Trump. Last month, the board granted local officials new power over certifying the election, which opponents say could potentially disrupt the process if Mr. Trump loses in November.

The new rule to require hand counting in addition to a machine count, critics argue, could introduce errors and confusion into the process and potential disrupt the custody of ballots.

The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in this election is stark.
Democracy depends on at least two healthy political parties that can compete for voters on a level playing field. The founders hated the idea of political parties, but quickly figured out that parties tie voters to the mechanics of Congress and the presidency.
And they do far more than that. Parties allowed for the idea of loyal and legitimate opposition, which in turn allowed for the peaceful transition of power. That peaceful exchange enabled the people to choose their leaders and leaders to relinquish power safely. Parties also create a system for criticizing people in power, which helps to weed out corrupt or unfit leaders.
But those benefits of a party system depend on a level political playing field for everyone, so that a party must constantly compete for voters by testing which policies are most popular and getting rid of the corrupt or unstable leaders voters would reject.
In the 80s, radical Republican leaders set out to dismantle the government that regulated business, provided a basic social safety net, promoted infrastructure, and protected civil rights. But that system was popular, and to overcome the majority who favored it, they began to tip the political playing field in their direction. They began to suppress voting by Democrats by insisting that Democrats were engaging in “voter fraud.” They worked to delegitimize their opponents by calling them “socialists” or “communists”. By the 1990s, extremists in the party were taking power by purging traditional Republicans from it.
When a political party has so thoroughly walled itself off from the majority, there are two options. One is to become full-on authoritarian and suppress the majority, often with violence. Such a plan is in Project 2025, which calls for a strong executive to take control of the military and the judicial system and to use that power to impose his will. The other is for us to reject it.

Which one of these old countries would you like to exist again?

“A Massive Fraud [2020 election] of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Donald Trump.

Marjorie Taylor Greene noted the head of the largest teacher's union was not a "biological mother," when she was questioning her in a house committe. The union leader has adopted children.

JDVance said "“It’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio Cortez] — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,"

Buttigieg has adopted children, and Harris is a step-mom.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders took aim at Kamala Harris for not having biological children to keep her humble.

If pro-life people say "adption, not abortion," shouldn't they be more appreciative of adoptive mothers and step-mothers? Shouldn't they not think less of them? Why does the party of "family values" dismiss the role of step-parents and adoptive parents?

THIS IS NOT TO BE A DISCUSSION OF WHETHER THE USA IS OR IS NOT ENERGY INDEPENDENT OR WHETHER USA WILL OR WON'T REMAIN SO IN THE FUTURE!! I'M JUST INTERESTED IN YOUR OPINION ON FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS AND IF WE CAN AND SHOULD DO BETTER.

In 2022, the average fuel economy for new vehicles in the United States was 26 miles per gallon (mpg), which is an all time high. The legislated & planned standards require the fuel economy to rise to 51 mpg by 2031.

For comparison, the EU 2021 standards were equivalent to 57 U. S. miles per gallon (mpg), and the target for 2030 is 92 mpg.

In regard to tax rates on gasoline which are meant to encourage less use, better efficiency and transition to greener sources instead of fossil fuels. The federal US gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon (unchanged and not adjusted for inflation since 1993) while the average excise duty on gasoline in the EU is €0.548 per liter ($2.24 per gallon).

Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology and sociology, communication, media studies, psychoanalysis, [1] political theory, home economics, literature, education, and philosophy. [2]
Feminist theory often focuses on analyzing gender inequality. Themes often explored in feminist theory include discrimination, objectification (especially sexual objectification), oppression, patriarchy, [3][4] stereotyping, art history[5] and contemporary art, [6][7] and aesthetics. [8][9] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_theory

OR had a hypothetical President John McCain resigned before an alternate future 2012/2016 election? I'm quite a fan of my nostalgic memories of the 2008 Sarah Palin run for VP as a foreign politics news thing at the time - I didn't mind too much when Obama won instead and reelected 2012. I did hope Palin would run/win in 2012 in her own right as President ah well.

It just occurred to me randomly sitting at the desk tonight and just thinking to myself, and I'm an Aussie so American politics doesn't affect me /I don't vote in American elections duh - do you think and respectful answers only please - do you think the President will randomly resign the office so that VP Kamala Harris becomes President effectively immediately? Then again I don't know much about American politics procedures, lol, only Ford became President because Nixon resigned? Or was that Congress picking Ford? Lol so confused me ah well. A light hearted foreign politics question. I'm not an American.

I believe there's a strong possibility of another Trump assassination and it might be successful

in case this does happen, who should replace Trump?

Assume that you cannot have both.