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Old 07-15-2020, 06:47 PM   #182 (permalink)
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That's the point. We're all [differently] odd.

Local to myself (and suprisingly many others here) we have a vote by mail system.
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The VBM system was first approved for testing by the Oregon Legislature for local elections in 1981.... The Oregon Legislature approved a proposal to expand VBM to primary and general elections in the spring of 1995, but Governor John Kitzhaber vetoed the bill. However, by January 1996, Oregon became the first state to conduct a general election totally by mail to fill a vacancy in a federal office when it elected Senator Ron Wyden to replace Bob Packwood* with a 66 percent turnout.

....and on November 3, 1998 Oregon voters decide to expand VBM to primary and general elections by a vote of 757,204 to 334,021.

In the 2000 election cycle, Oregon for the first time used VBM in a Presidential Primary election and then a Presidential General election, with a 79 percent turnout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electi...n#Vote_by_Mail

[*Packwood was Cancel Cultured before it was cool]

Oddly enough — Tim Pool and his sidekick Adam are saying President Trump is pulling out of Afghanistan. I can't find any second source. ??? But they even broke the fourth wall and asked the President directly to fix Section 2320.

But when I was looking around I stumbled on twitchy.com/.../best-tweet-of-the-day-kirstie-alley-asks-for-help-finding-a-new-state-to-live-in...

That link on the twitchy.com website main page is intercepted by a Google 404 page. DDG doesn't even find the story. ??? What's up with that?
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