Ballot Access News – Congressional Bill for Ranked Choice Voting Would Outlaw Top-Two Systems

Sep 142024
 

A bill to require ranked choice voting for all congressional primary and general elections has been introduced in both houses of Congress. The U.S. Senate sponsor is Peter Welch (D-Vermont). The two chief sponsors in the House are Jaime Raskin (D-Maryland) and Don Beyer (D-Virginia).
It would require ranked choice voting in both primaries and general elections, so that the current top-two systems in California and Washington would need to be revised. Furthermore, it says that if a state uses systems without party nominees, at least three candidates must be allowed to advance to the general election.
The bill says that if a state defines a qualified party in terms of how many votes it received in the…

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Dissident Voice – The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns U.S. Convictions of Uhuru 3 As A Fascist Farce

Sep 142024
 

After being forced to acquit Omali Yeshitela, Jesse Nevel, and Penny Hess – the “Uhuru 3” – on being agents of Russia, a U.S. federal court jury resorted to the sham conviction of “conspiracy,” in what amounted to them being guilty of internationalism and the work of liberating African people. The state’s claim is that the defendants are guilty of “planning to sow discord and inflame American political tensions at the behest of Russia,” a charge carrying a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Although the conspiracy charge is being regarded as the less serious of the two changes, it presents a threat to all anti-imperialists and internationalists working in the bowels of the capitalist, U.S….

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Ballot Access News – Nevada Green Party Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Put it on Ballot

Sep 142024
 

On September 13, the Nevada Green Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the ruling of the State Supreme Court that had removed it from the ballot. Nevada Green Party v Aguilar, 24A262. Here is the filing.

The application was submitted to Justice Elena Kagan, who asked the Democratic Party to respond by Tuesday, September 17.

UPDATE: here is a news story from The Hill.

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Hackaday – Back Up Your Data On Paper With Lots Of QR Codes

Sep 132024
 

QR codes are used just about everywhere now, for checking into venues, ordering food, or just plain old advertising. But what about data storage? It’s hardly efficient, but if you want to store your files in a ridiculous paper format—there’s a way to do that, too!
QR-Backup was developed by [za3k], and is currently available as a command-line Linux tool only. It takes a file or files, and turns them into a “paper backup”—a black-and white PDF file full of QR codes that’s ready to print. That’s legitimately the whole deal—you run the code, generate the PDF, then print the file. That piece of paper is now your backup. Naturally, qr-backup works in reverse, too. You can use…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – The Harris-Trump debate: A degraded exhibition of political reaction

Sep 122024
 

The degraded spectacle of Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held a mirror to a political system in extraordinary crisis. Between the mad ravings of the fascist Trump and the empty-headed platitudes of the warmonger Harris, the debate presented the vicious face of American capitalism.

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Hackaday – DOOM on a Volumetric Display

Sep 102024
 

There’s something magical about volumetric displays. They really need to be perceived in person, and no amount of static or video photography will ever do them justice. [AncientJames] has built a few, and we’re reporting on his progress, mostly because he got it to run a playable port of DOOM.
Base view of an earlier version showing the motor drive and PSU
As we’ve seen before, DOOM is very much a 3D game viewed on a 2D display using all manner of clever tricks and optimizations. The background visual gives a 3D effect, but the game’s sprites are definitely very solidly in 2D land. As we’ll see, that wasn’t good enough for [James].
The basic concept relies on a…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Following challenge from Democrats, Nevada Supreme Court removes Green Party’s Jill Stein from ballot

Sep 092024
 

In a 5-2 decision the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that even though the Green Party collected nearly three times as many signatures as required, the party would still not appear on the ballot over a technicality that was facilitated by the Democratic Secretary of State.

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Planet PostgreSQL – Radim Marek: We need to talk about ENUMs

Sep 082024
 

Designing a database schema, whether for a new application or a new feature, always raises a lot of questions. The choices you make can have a big impact on how well your database performs and how easy it is to maintain and scale. Whether you’re just getting started with PostgreSQL or consider yourself a seasoned pro, it’s easy to rely on old habits or outdated advice. In this article, I want to take a fresh look at one of those topics that often sparks debate: the use of ENUMs in PostgreSQL.
I have to admit, not so long ago, I would advise “don’t use ENUMs” without thinking about it too much. Relying only on random articles and…

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– The Conversation – Home – Crossing state lines to get an abortion is a new legal minefield, with courts to decide if there’s a right to travel

Sep 082024
 

An examination room at a Jacksonville abortion clinic in April 2024, shortly before Florida’s six-week abortion ban went into effect. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right to get an abortion. Fourteen states ban abortions in almost all circumstances, and another eight in almost all cases after 6 to 18 weeks of pregnancy. Nonetheless, the number of abortions provided in the U.S. has actually grown since the court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, rising 11% since 2020, to over 1 million abortions a year. This increase can partially be explained…

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Ballot Access News – Nevada Supreme Court Removes the Green Party from the Ballot

Sep 072024
 

On September 6, the Nevada Supreme Court voted 5-2 to remove the Green Party from the ballot. Nevada State Democratic Party v Nevada Green Party, 24 OC 00107.1B. The lower court had kept the party on the ballot. Here is the 18-page opinion.
When the Green Party began its petition drive, the Nevada Secretary of State furnished a sample form. But, the Nevada Secretary of State sent an incorrect version. The petition blank should have contained a sentence saying the circulator attests that, to his or her belief, all the signatures were of registered voters. The petition blank for initiatives does not have such a requirement. Furthermore the requirement that this sentence be included is not mentioned…

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Deeplinks – You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public

Sep 072024
 

Being out in the world advocating for privacy often means having to face a chorus of naysayers and nihilists. When we spend time fighting the expansion of Automated License Plate Readers capable of tracking cars as they move, or the growing ubiquity of both public and private surveillance cameras, we often hear a familiar refrain: “you don’t have an expectation of privacy in public.” This is not true. In the United States, you do have some expectation of privacy—even in public—and it’s important to stand up and protect that right.
How is it possible to have an expectation of privacy in public? The answer lies in the rise of increasingly advanced surveillance technology. When you are out…

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Fun with virtualization – Finding a job in this modern era

Sep 072024
 

This is going to be something different, and maybe to explain where I’ve been the last month. Setting myself up for failure Back in 2012, I had been laid off, but during my exit interview, something odd happened, the company that had bought us out to crush us had their entire networking group walk. The directory apparently got a good offer, but in the DEC tradition, he’d told them that he was going to take everyone with him. Everyone from the engineers, the team manager, to even the cable runners. The entire group walked. I can’t corroborate this, but during my exit interview the HR people reading over my roles, had taken a keen interest…

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Hackaday – How Much Resolution Does Film Really Have?

Sep 072024
 

Have you ever scanned old negatives or print photographs? Then you’ve probably wondered about the resolution of your scanner, versus the resolution of what you’re actually scanning. Or maybe, you’ve looked at digital cameras, and wondered how many megapixels make up that 35mm film shot. Well [ShyStudios] has been pondering these very questions, and they’ve shared some answers.
The truth is that film doesn’t really have a specific equivalent resolution to a digital image, as it’s an analog medium that has no pixels. Instead, color is represented by photoreactive chemicals. Still, there are ways to measure its resolution—normally done in lines/mm, in the simplest sense.
[ShyStudios] provides a full explanation of what this means, as well as more…

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Ballot Access News – Exhaustive Study Shows Almost Half of Partisan Races in 2022 Had Only One Candidate on the Ballot

Sep 042024
 

The New York Times reports that an exhaustive study of election results in 2022 finds almost half of all partisan races only had one candidate on the ballot. See the article here. … Continue reading →

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Ballot Access News – One of the Four Candidates in Alaska’s U.S. House Race is Currently in Prison in Another State

Sep 032024
 

Eric Hafner, one of the four candidates who will be on the ballot for the Alaska U.S. House race, is currently living in a prison in another state. See this story. … Continue reading →

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