Thank you, America.
Yay! They listened.
The resounding throngs
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Author: Sue Ranscht
Having survived valve repair surgery and an experimental cardiac bypass at age 5, three years before it was an accepted medical procedure, Susan grew into the size of her overworked and enlarged heart. Maybe she thought she had enough to give it away -- twice. Both times, she had to retrieve the shattered pieces and puzzle them back together. She thanks her Dad for the only advice of his she ever followed to the letter: "Never get married. Learn to take care of yourself." So of course she is a writer. Susan has co-written a YA SciFi novel, and has three more novels in various stages of evolution. She's had several short stories published in other people's anthologies, some of which were contest-related. Let her tell you a story... View all posts by Sue Ranscht
Space, Time, and Raspberries 
I hope so. After he put a halt to it, they’re still being dismantled. When I reordered my dad’s perscripts, the mail-order company said it’s going to take longer for them to arrive. But our voices did make a difference. 🙂
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It is clear to what I hope is an unstoppable majority of us that the expanding swamp is so welcoming, new creatures keep moving in.
The rest of us seem to suffer from swamp gaslighting.
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Yes. I hope the majority is unstoppable too, Sue. But apparently, a majority isn’t enough. It has to be a super majority. Whatever happened to democracy?
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Somewhere along the way, we devalued civil discourse and deleted civics classes. Tolerance became subservient to the self-righteousness of the fearful. And then came the Fear-Stoker in Chief.
Yes, the super majority is the unstoppable majority.
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My high school civics class was one of my favorites and I still remember it almost 50 years later.
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Sad to say, DeJoy did not actually retreat. He promised to make no more changes; he did not promise to undo any of the damage already done. Here’s a link to what WaPo says today about removals of sorting machines:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/20/postal-service-mail-sorters-removals/
Friggin’ details. 😦
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Yes, my joy and post turned out to be premature and unwarranted. Sad to say.
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On the other hand, Vote.org has the details about voting by mail for every state, plus a simple interface for filling in most (not all) of the info required to apply for an absentee ballot. Then the voter can download the form as a PDF file, add a little info and a signature, and mail hard copy to the appropriate board of elections. For NYS at least, they did a good job. The efforts of groups like Vote.org are a partial workaround for the combination of pandemic and USPS sabotage. Whether they are enough to prevent Rethuglicans from stealing the election remains to be seen.
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This year, all CA voters have been contacted to confirm their registration information, and we have same-day registration. We will also each receive mail-in ballots with the option to request ballot tracking from when it is mailed, received, and counted. Unless there is a deliberate Republican effort to defraud the system, I think it will be just as difficult to prove voter fraud — for lack of any — as it as always been.
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