You are 100% correct to worry about this, of course. That said, I don't see something more than 3.6M people (half the registered voters of Michigan to just pick that one state as an example) seeing themselves disenfranchised like in your scenario being silent about it and calmly waiting for the courts. I guess I'm saying the perpetrators of such a scheme would have more to worry about than just losing a court case.
On a side note, its interesting that in Michigan it appears that as of today 41% of registered voters have already voted.
https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections/election-results-and-data/voter-participation-dashboard
I found this document which lists all of the timeline for Michigan certification: https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/Michigan Guide - Final.pdf (apparently this has been on a lot of folks' radar for awhile :)
that document makes it clear that in Michigan at least certification is a mandatory duty in both the constitution and by state law.
Yes, good points. I posted the comment originally because it is alarming.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Veterans on Patrol founder, Michael Meyer is not a veteran. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/veterans-patrol
The Constitution only grants the President the power to pardon federal crimes. I found a nice article with the history and status of the cases against the bad actors in the last attempt here: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/where-the-fake-electors-cases-stand-in-state-court
It would be worth looking into which states have wording in their Constitutions that include "shall certify" which would make the stalling tactic a crime.
Also, anyone who voted in a state whose electors were not sent on time would have a valid civil rights case against that state's officials and they would all have standing because they were personally harmed. The number of potential lawsuits would be overwhelming and perhaps ruinous to anyone found guilty. Not sure that fear of that would be enough to stop them, but also they have to worry about losing their next election (though if it worked they might hope to be rewarded by the winning administration).
Thanks bot. Its a post by Robert Reich on his substack. Maybe not a "news outlet" but direct from someone who is constantly interviewed and in the news. His CV is rather lengthy so I will just link to a wikipedia article about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich
It’s all about dominance in space
Why have these two oligarchs been willing to take actions that cause so many of their customers to jump ship? What’s the connection between Bezos’s preventing the Post from endorsing Harris and Musk’s weaponizing X for Trump?
The U.S. Copyright Office denied an exemption from the DMCA to allow gaming historians to access out-of-print games they can’t legally get.
"Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally dead. A Video Games History Foundation study found you can’t buy nearly 90% of games from before 2010. Preservationists have been looking for ways to allow people to legally access gaming history, but the U.S. Copyright Office dealt them a heavy blow Friday. Feds declared that you or any researcher has no right to access old games under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA."
Article didn't link to the website they set up but yup, pretty much checks out https://progress2028.com/ for those that didn't read the article, none of these are actual Harris policies.
Weirdo to join Weird party. News at 11.
There is a setting now (in all types of client I think) to log out when you close down the browser. Your comment makes me realize that I probably want to NOT set that on at least one machine. I set that on the machines that are out and about.
For the server I've used gogs for many years. It was easy to set up and has a web interface. What client you use is really up to you with git.
It worked great for Rome for a long time, but yeah.
you mentioned you've used joplin. All my notes are in markdown and I've been using Obsidian instead. Obsidian includes support for mermaid and can render (relatively simple) flowcharts.
https://obsidian.md/ https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/flowchart.html
it might even be ridiculously simple given that ads almost 100% of the time have louder audio than the content by design.
and so, spent money to travel and presumably stay someplace and eat food which actually might be a net gain to the economy given (we assume) the days off work were PTO time that would have been taken anyway?
How much to just torture him for awhile?
Wow, how to bury the lede (lead): "On Monday night, Musk said in a post on X, the social media platform he owns, 'All US cars that are capable of FSD will be enabled for a one month trial this week.'
Watch out on the roads in April I guess.
I'm not sure about the current state of the science but there were a bunch of studies that showed that first contact with Europeans had transmitted smallpox as early as 1520 which over the next couple hundred years wiped out maybe 50% or more of the native population in advance of colonization such that later arriving Europeans had the mistaken impression that the continent had always been largely empty when some estimates put the native population pre-colonization at 120 million or more.
There's a quite famous sunken bed in the Beatles' movie HELP! It was in John's area: https://filmandfurniture.com/2016/09/beatles-help/