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Re:The Big Crackdown is upon us on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:23AM (#24058125)
It's referring to the Richie Allen Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9k_-YZ04xSnXTwM5_25L9g
The price would go down until it finds enough buyers for a given price and there will be a price for which the stock is attractive again. For instance, if a company raises capital by doubling the volume of its shares, at half the price the company will be worth the same so there is no reason why nobody wouldn't buy shares of the stock at half the price. Now if there is for some reason 0 buyers, the stock is illiquid and the stock price goes to 0 but the company can still issue new shares.
The shares are issued on the public market so market participants would buy the shares. Order book and market orders will determine at which price these shares would be bought.
That would be true for private companies but I'm not sure what would prevent public companies to raise capital by issuing new shares. Obviously the stock price would take a hit but new capital would be raised. That's the function that public markets are supposed to fulfill.

Why do governments favor bailout of companies rather than issuing new shares?

Isn't the public market supposed to offer public companies a way to recapitalize whenever they need it? In recent years public companies have been spending huge amounts of cash buying back their own shares. Wouldn't a functioning economy/financial system promote the issuance of new shares as the main mechanism to raise cash? It's obvious why public companies would prefer a bailout than issuing...

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If you read beyond the headline, you'll see that this is actually the conclusion of the article.
Paper ballots works well in every European democracies and is far more transparent and secured than the electronic machines we have today. As a matter of fact, Germany has tested electronic machines but went back to paper ballots to preserve the reliability of the vote. The article doesn't just cast the doubt on electronic voting machines, it shows they are set-up to enable election fraud. How many more proofs is needed to convince voters that sadly, elections results can't be trust?
The resistance isn't about the use of electronic systems for our elections but about the poor reliability and lack of transparency of the current systems. The vote count should be reliable and transparent. Is it to much to ask?
Systems aren't broken, they are set-up to enable corruption. The article points to a clear intent of enabling election fraud.
The article doesn't conclude "computers can't count correctly" but instead it says "voting machines are set-up to enable election fraud".
Re:Debunking a presidential candidate's “secret server” on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:59AM (#12844077)
Thanks, good point. Indeed she works for Cendyn.
Re:Debunking a presidential candidate's “secret server” on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:36AM (#12844017)
Wow! The registrant email is [email protected] which could be Evan McMullin, the candidate financed by the anti-Trump movement within the GOP. Would there be a way to verify that Evan McMullin is the real registrant?
If you can't verify that the printed results have been counted correctly, it does not bring more guarantee. At least, the paper ballots should be kept and audited which is not the case in many States.
There have been many statistical analysis pointing out to potential election fraud due to the electronic counting of the votes. For those who missed it, here is a comprehensive report on potential election fraud during recent Democratic primaries: http://www.election-justice-usa.org/Democracy_Lost_Update1_E...

The last part is related to the electronic counting of the votes. Here what Fritz Scheuren, the 100th President of the American Statistical Association, had to say on the Democratic primaries “as a statistician, I find the results of the 2016 primary voting unusual. In fact, I found the patterns unexpected [and even] suspicious. There is a greater degree of smoothness in the outcomes than the roughness that is typical in raw/real data […] the difference between the reported totals, and our best estimate of the actual vote, varies considerably from state to state. However these differences are significant—sometimes more than 10%—and could change the outcome of the election”

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