Mandami
| February 22nd, 2026 at 8:50:44 AM permalink | |
| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 5730 |
Duhhhhh…. I just want the ‘security’ of a vote to be as secure as the ‘security’ to be a paid city snow shoveler. Apparently you don’t. |
| February 22nd, 2026 at 11:12:11 AM permalink | |
| Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 30 Posts: 5250 |
That's right I don't. Being employed by a government agency has different standards than being engaged in a Constitutional protected activity that you perform in your personal capacity. I don't even see how these are equatable, nor should they be. |
| February 22nd, 2026 at 11:54:37 AM permalink | |
| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 5730 |
We finally agree. They are not equatable. There should be a higher standard to protect our elections than our snow shoveling workforce identifications. |
| February 22nd, 2026 at 12:54:14 PM permalink | |
| GenoDRPh Member since: Aug 24, 2023 Threads: 5 Posts: 2827 |
Right now, the vote IS secure. New voter registrations are cross referenced with SS and DL databases. Registration forms are signed under pains and penalties of perjury and federal prosecution. Voter rolls are constantly maintained (I'm looking my yearly renewal, siting on the table, because I'm too lay to bring in 2 blocks down the street to the town hall). Voter fraud by illegals is vanishly rare, and even the GOP/MAGA's own data show that. Voter ID is a solution in search of a problem. The true purpose of voter id to make it-even if just incrementally-harder for individuals to register and to vote, especially people who live on the margins. |
| February 22nd, 2026 at 2:00:13 PM permalink | |
| Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 30 Posts: 5250 |
Elections are secure. If you can cite a legimate investigation into systemic election security issues I would be happy to read it. No, there should be. Voting should be way easier than getting hired as a city employee. This is a crazy statement. |
| February 22nd, 2026 at 5:46:16 PM permalink | |
| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 5730 |
You are really bad at trying to argue coherently. I am not discussing the relative ‘ease’ of voting versus the ‘ease’ of being hired as a temporary snow shoveler. I’m discussing the security of the vote. I will agree with you that there is not ‘widespread’ voter fraud. I’m guessing it’s pretty limited, and not specifically in the purview of one party versus the other. But I think the concept of preventing even limited fraud supercedes the concept of one or two unqualified snow shovelers being hired. And as always, people who commit fraud of all types do their best not to be caught. Saying we haven’t proven it exists does not mean it doesn’t. Just means the bad guys are good at avoiding being caught. You were probably saying ‘you can’t prove there is any widespread Somali fraud in Minnesota’ a year ago. |
| February 22nd, 2026 at 6:22:34 PM permalink | |
| GenoDRPh Member since: Aug 24, 2023 Threads: 5 Posts: 2827 |
If you and your MAGA friends want to claim voter fraud, blah blah blah, it's your job to prove it. You can't rely on "bad guys do their best not to be caught" and use a whisper campaign to sow doubt. Direct challenge to SooPoo and any and all voter fraud scaredy cats and CHicken Little's: Either prove significant voter fraud or shut the fuck up about it. |
| February 22nd, 2026 at 7:59:59 PM permalink | |
| Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 30 Posts: 5250 |
If you think my argument is incoherent, you need to adjust your mind. A basic constitutional right should always be "less secure" than being hired as a City employee. There is no voter security issue, so pushing for regulations for a nonexistent problem is funny. The MN fraud is not within the same realm, because that is organizations committing financial fraud. Nothing to do with an individual's rights. |
| March 9th, 2026 at 6:47:03 AM permalink | |
| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 5730 | Ok. It’s not Mamdani. It’s his wife. She periodically ‘likes’ posts. It’s the modern way of saying ‘I agree’. She recently liked two posts. One calling the rapes of hostages from 10/7 by Hamas a hoax. The other touting ‘from the river to the sea’, a metaphor for the elimination of Israel. Mandani’s answer? My wife is a private citizen. And not affiliated with my administration in any official way. She is disgusting. And so is he, the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing! |
| March 9th, 2026 at 8:59:09 AM permalink | |
| Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 30 Posts: 5250 |
We have been told for years we can't evaluate what spouses of officials do in their free time (when Clarence Thomas's wife does truly despicable behavior.) So the fact that his wife like two random posts on Facebook, literally don't care at all (also, without seeing the posts, I am not even sure how "bad" they are.) |

