On Monday (April 6) Polish Parliament passed a controversial bill under which presidential elections in May would be held by postal vote only. Ruling party PiS (national-conservative, Christian democratic, right-wing populists) wants to force the election by any means, because the incumbent conservative President Andrzej Duda (also PiS) is ahead in the polls.
Here are some things about the planned postal elections:
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Citizens will receive their voting cards by mail. Ordinary letter, not registered mail.
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People can add themselves to voter list (give their current address) no later than the moment the new law comes into force. So one is supposed to do this under yet non-binding law, because after it becomes binding, it is to late to change address.
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The law comes into force in May. The country will have only a few days to print 30 million counterfeit-proof voting cards, plus the same number of voter statements (to write your name, and PESEL number, and put into voting envelope together with voting card), plus 90 million special envelopes, and deliver these to 30 million voters. It's the same country that can't manufacture and deliver a few million face masks to hospitals.
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The envelopes with your voting card will go to a single special post box in every city. One in every city. Only Warsaw will have one per district. We have 10 cities over 250,000 people. We will have safe postal elections by mail, because of pandemic. And ~200k voters in the city will have to be at this one post box on one day. Normally the bigger cities have 100-500 polling stations.
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Normally every polling station has a separate electoral commission of a few persons plus a special place for volunteer citizen watchers (to ensure transparent and lawful elections). Now, every polling station (the one post box per city) will have ONE electoral commission of up to 45 members (for cities over 250k inhabitants, less for smaller cities). In KrakΓ³w there are 600k registered voters, and 45 persons to verify and count all the votes. The electoral commissioner can deputize more persons for the commission, under unspecified mode. Possibilities are endless.
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The polling post box will be emptied multiple times a day, and the votes will be delivered by mail man to the electoral commission. In a country where sometimes mail men dump letters to garbage, to ease their burden. Anyone can be a mail man here. My mail man has prison tattoos on his hands.
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Note: This will all be based off of my results from The Campaign Trail.
Posted here, because the official TCT sub is a shitshow at the moment...
UPDATE: Now added to the mod loader!
The 2008 Presidential Election, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Sarah Palin
^(or: Ben Bernanke's Wet Hot American Summer; The Dan Quayle Award For Putting Your Foot In Your Mouth, Awarded To Joe Biden; Going Rogue & Other Nonsensical Bullshit; Joe The Strummer; Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran; H*A*S*H, Starring Chris Dodd; Connecticut For Lieberman; I Don't Throw My Hands Up In The Air Sometimes, Yelling Ay-Oh, Gotta Let Go (Because I Am John McCain And Cannot Lift My Arms Above My Head)**)
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the Campaign Trail, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the Campaign Trail and this Honorable Court. So quit yer dillydallying you little shits, and listen to what I have to say.
You waited for it. You waited longer. And longer. And a little longer. You played Obama to death, forgot all about it, and then pestered me with endless DMs asking "ayo when mccain droppin xd". Perhaps you thought it would never come. "Daddy," your young one would ask, sat upon your lap by the fireside. "When will they release McCain?", to which you would laugh and tell your dear boy not to trouble himself with such myths of vaporware. Now, get to bed you little rascal, or Santa'll leave nowt but coal beneath the tree for yous 'ere morn.
Well, I'm here to tell you that Santa has indeed arrived (in November) -- upon entry into US airspace, he was intercepted by NORAD and shot down in a brazen act of jingoistic fervor. From the molten ruins of his sleigh fell presents abound, scattering about on the dead grass and blown hither and thither by the gales of November come early. In one such bow-wrapped box, dropped down the chimney of a lad about seven years in age-
GET ON WITH IT!
Okay, okay, Jesus. Anyway, McCain is done, and we've made some tweaks to Obama too. You can consider this the definitive edition of 2008, and we're going to be looking at having both sides added to the mod loader as soon as possible. Please use the links found in this post going forward.
I could not be prouder of the work we have done to present this mod to you all. I have spent months slowly working on the writing part, while my ever-diligent modding partner /u/campaigntrailaccount worked hard to code this idea into reality. W
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You bastards did it. For the first time in memeland's History , the incumbent candidate lost an election.
But will it last?
A split in the party made compromise impossible , making a new party enter the fray - Big Duckus's National progressive Party.
With their faill into ireelevancy , the C-D's collapsed. Now , the 3 party system lies shattered.
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Florida has received a large amount of news coverage every election cycle due to the fact that election there tend to be very close and for its role in the 2000 election as the state that swung the election for George W. Bush.
How was Barack Obama able to swing the state Democratic despite the fact that the two preceding Democratic candidates (Gore, Kerry) and the two successive candidates (Clinton, Biden) were unable to do so?
Here is a chart of the Florida vote percentages since 2000:
2000
George W. Bush (Republican): 49.847%
Al Gore (Democratic): 49.838%.
2004
George W. Bush (Republican Incumbent): 52.10%
John Kerry (Democratic): 47.09%.
2008
Barack Obama (Democratic): 50.91%
John McCain (Republican): 48.10%.
2012
Barack Obama (Democratic Incumbent): 50.01%
Mitt Romney (Republican): 49.13%
2016
Donald Trump (Republican): 49.02%
Hillary Clinton (Democratic): 47.82%
2020
Donald Trump (Republican Incumbent): 51.22%
Joe Biden (Democratic): 47.86%
This is my fourth post doing this series, in which r/imaginaryelections will redo every single U.S. election. I will make a new electoral map for every one of these elections. (PS: I have all of the previous maps done, just need to find a good time to post it, sorry for the delay.)
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Just something I've wondered about and was curious what this subs take on it was.
Why start from 2008? Well, that was the first one I sort of paid attention to and understood how elections in the US worked.
You heard it here first folks, the long-awaited 2008 election is finally here! Well, one half of it, anyway. I'm happy to say that after three months of writing, coding, and meticulous testing, we're ready to bring you the opportunity to place yourself in the shoes of Barack H. Obama II as he sets out on his quest for the White House.
This finished product is the result of a wonderful collaboration between me and /u/campaigntrailaccount. I did the writing for questions and feedback, and she did all the heavy lifting with writing the code, for which I'm greatly (bigly) in her debt. Seriously, she put a lot of work into making this election as true to real life as possible, taking into account the smallest of factors which could affect the vote margins. We're very happy to finally unveil the fruits of our efforts.
HOW TO PLAY
First, you'll want to plug in the codes to the mod loader on the New Campaign Trail website. We're hoping to have it integrated into the mod loader presets, but for now, you'll need this:
And for Code Set 2, enter your choice of VP picks:
Enjoy! We'd appreciate any feedback you may have, and we look forward to bringing you John McCain as soon as possible.
