Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by 18pfsmt on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:43PM
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In Colorado, we often often have ~15 ballot initiatives, as well as city, county, and state elections. That's on top of the federal elections. Most of our domestic policy is dictated at the local level rather than the federal level, and it is this decentralized nature which flummoxes our European friends.
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by isostatic on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:58AM
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Local referendums rather than representative democracy is odd - don’t you pay your reps to research the options and make the beat descision. I wouldn’t have time to understand 15 options
We tend to have 5 or 6 layers of government too so I don’t see the problem there.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by 18pfsmt on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:15PM
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We do not have a federal sales tax (i.e. VAT). Europe hasn't had yearly GDP growth over 1% in 25 years, and Europe is issuing bonds at negative % rates. The U.S. subsidizes the European military defenses and pharmaceutical prices to boot.
I have no issue with European countries sovereign decisions, but when Europeans project their ideas on Americans I take great offense.