Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster

Re:Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsear... by godelski on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @08:29PM (#28228961)

To be honest, a lot of this is already happening and I don't think the Democrats care. When voter turnout is high, Democrats win hands down. When voter turnout is low, Republicans win. But the kicker is that both parties thrive when they are losing. This may often be counter intuitive to many people but I think many have bad priors when modeling the game that politicians are playing.

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Re:Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsear... by not2b on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:58PM (#28229488)

Actually, Democrats are generally in favor of instant runoff voting, and many more liberal places have enacted it.

But yes, there are a lot of professional campaign consultants who have the system wired that they profit whether they win or lose, and many of those work for Democrats.

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Re:Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsear... by godelski on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:53PM (#28229834)

> Democrats are generally in favor

To be clear are we talking about the politicians or the people? The people, yes. Politicians I'm not so sure about. Also I'd encourage you to read my other comment which addresses ordinal voting (like IRV) and the issues with them. It might be why the party likes it (still having vote splitting in the primaries).

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