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The Center attributes these differences to two phenomena. The first is a lack of resources at polling places in minority neighborhoods. A Brennan Center study on the November 2012 election found that in three of the states with the longest wait times—Florida, South Carolina and Maryland—voters of color disproportionately had to go to polling places with fewer machines and/or fewer poll workers. There are also outdated voting machines that crash also lengthen lines. Errors in voting rolls — one in eight registration records is invalid or has serious errors — further compound these problems.
The second major factor is cuts to early voting programs, which people of color tend to take advantage of at greater rates than whites. In 2011, several states cut the number of early voting days, the Center report says. Florida, for example, reduced the number of early in-person voting days from 14 to 8. At the 2012 election, several Florida polling places with large populations of color experienced wait times of up to 7 hours.
Whatever their origin, the effects of longer poll lines are huge. The Center estimates that long lines deterred at least 730,000 Americans from voting in November 2012. That works out to about 14,000 voters deterred per state. Voting lines also cost Americans $544 million in lost productivity and wages, creating a kind of feedback loop for voters of color, who are often less able to sacrifice their wages therefore stay away from polling places.
I'm actually surprised the average times are so low! That seems downright speedy.
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True, I'm just saying, multiply them by 2 and that's what I would have expected.
The extra time for blacks would be partly explained by them being disproportionately located in high-concentration population centers but that can only be a part of the story there and I'm not sure that applies to latinos at all.
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Isn't "showed only positive results" a weird choice of words for a doctor? Positive results are usually bad.
yah you pretty much paraphrased exactly what the article said - "While it’s clear he means to say everything was normal, the word “positive” is an odd use of the term in medicine."
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I'm actually surprised the average times are so low! That seems downright speedy.
Yeah it doesn't seem too bad. In the recent Australian election it took me at least a half hour to vote. Didn't help this was the senate voting paper though:
Here's the whole thing for the lol's. Obviously written by TrumpJohn BarronJohn MillerMeridith McIver his doctor
Apparently the guy at the top of the letterhead (his dad) died in 2010 so either that dude is incredibly lazy by not replacing the letterhead or it's totally fake.
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I'm trying hard to figure out what this means.
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I hope everyone enjoyed the last two months of Trump, because that was the tamed version of Trump. Now he's doubling down on the crazy train instead. Manafort appears out, Breitbart now officially running Trump's campaign. Obligatory "he only hires the best people"
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Donald Trump, following weeks of gnawing agitation over his advisers’ attempts to temper his style, moved late Tuesday to overhaul his struggling campaign by rebuffing those efforts and elevating two longtime associates who have encouraged his combative populism.
Stephen Bannon, a former banker who runs the influential conservative outlet Breitbart News and is known for his fiercely anti-establishment politics, has been named the Trump campaign’s chief executive. Kellyanne Conway, a veteran Republican pollster who has been close to Trump for years, will assume the role of campaign manager.
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Trump’s stunning decision effectively ended the months-long push by campaign chairman Paul Manafort to moderate Trump’s presentation and pitch for the general election. And it sent a signal, perhaps more clearly than ever, that the real-estate magnate intends to finish this race on his own terms, with friends who share his instincts at his side.
While Manafort, a seasoned operative who joined the campaign in March, will remain in his role, the advisers described his status internally as diminished due to Trump’s unhappiness and restlessness in recent weeks.
While Trump respects Manafort, the aides said, he has grown to feel “boxed in” and "controlled" by people who barely know him. Moving forward, he plans to focus intensely on rousing his voters at rallies and through media appearances
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Trump’s decision developed over the weekend as he traveled to the Hamptons in New York for a Saturday evening fundraiser at the home of Woody Johnson, the wealthy Republican benefactor who owns the New York Jets.
According to three Republicans familiar with that event, Trump was confronted by several supporters there, including mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, about news reports on his advisers’ desire to tame his personality.
Trump was visibly infuriated at those stories, the Republicans said, and he conferred with Mercer about potential steps he might take to remake his campaign and populate his inner circle with voices more like his own.
I hope everyone enjoyed the last two months of Trump, because that was the tamed version of Trump. Now he's doubling down on the crazy train instead. Manafort appears out, Breitbart now officially running Trump's campaign. Obligatory "he only hires the best people"
If this is true, Hillary has already won the election. Trump will lose every swing state and maybe Missouri. The RNC will stop funding Trump's campaign to focus on down ballot races.
The Senate is going to go to the Democrats. The GOP will keep the House.
IMO, now the most interesting thing about this election is how poisoned American political discourse will become due to Trumpism. Man, I though it was bad before.
