Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by mc32 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:17AM (#14954942)

San Diego and LA appears to be the place to vote... (where voters exceed eligible pop) but Alabama has historically been democratic and I am pretty sure people in AL felt more at ease to openly have Hillary campaign signs than a Trump sympathizer would feel at company like Google which likes to keep things googley.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:28AM (#14955005)

Alabama has been Republican since the Civil Rights Act was passed. http://www.270towin.com/states/Alabama

On to voter fraud!

    But those numbers likely don't indicate
    anything nefarious like widespread voter
    fraud. It's actually pretty common for
    voter rolls to be a mess. In fact,
    Judicial Watch threatened to sue 11 other
    states in April for the same reason.

    A 2012 Pew Research study found around
    2.75 million people were registered to
    vote in multiple states and more than
    1.8 million deceased people were still
    registered to vote.

    Oftentimes, people don't realize they
    need to notify local voting officials
    when they move or when a loved one dies.

    But outside of a few isolated incidences,
    those extra numbers don't generally lead
    to voter fraud.

http://www.abc2news.com/newsy/11-california-counties-might-h...

Q: How big a problem was voter fraud in the 2016 election?

A: There have been just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/0-...

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by mc32 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:34AM (#14955041)

AL voted 30%+ for Hillary. I doubt you had 30% Googlers feel comfortable declaring affiliation with Trump or Republicans in general.

Carter won in '76 and it's been within +-10% R/D till 2000. So not that lopsided as you might suppose.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by dguaraglia on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:29PM (#14961614)

The Bay Area voted overwhelmingly Democrat in the last election. Your doubts about having 30%+ Googlers declaring affiliation with Trump is right: there's no way it could've happened. Just not for the nefarious reasons you want to suggest though.

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