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In reply to the discussion: Is everyone prepared for an election day where power grids go down...? [View all]Tipperary
(6,930 posts)61. For pete's sake, that is not an insult.
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Is everyone prepared for an election day where power grids go down...? [View all]
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2019
OP
wash state is all mail in so my paper pre stamped ballot will be mailed in early
samnsara
Dec 2019
#4
Don't know if you remember it or was old enough, but that huge blackout of 1965.....
George II
Dec 2019
#12
Even a movie about it - Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? Population Boom too
Hestia
Dec 2019
#26
He doesn't have to take them all down, does he. Just like he cherry-picked, targeted
Maru Kitteh
Dec 2019
#30
And do it without firing a bullet, launching a bomb or killing anyone.
Haggis for Breakfast
Dec 2019
#24
It would kill people who rely on electricity for life support, folks at intersections when
rzemanfl
Dec 2019
#28
If doing that for a long period would not risk destroying their own economy...
Lock him up.
Dec 2019
#79
Definitely. You'll find lots of other good tools for a piece on the side where the anti-coup is list
mahina
Dec 2019
#76
Digital calculations don't care about turnout humans do, what are we to do about the stolen
uponit7771
Dec 2019
#55
except the talk radio stations will have back-up - that is why democrats have to end their
certainot
Dec 2019
#21
The internet is much easier to control and much less obvious. Many won't even notice that their web
erronis
Dec 2019
#23
If I remember correctly I think there are only 11 states that do not have a paper back up of some
Peacetrain
Dec 2019
#25
i vote by mail. id like all of us to go that way. i have had some rws try to tell me
AllaN01Bear
Dec 2019
#34
Really? sigh...I cant think of ONE thing that would work with power grids down.
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2019
#41
Only thing worse about being called lazy is being called lazy be a lazier thinker
uponit7771
Dec 2019
#56
So counting paper ballots, which everyone here says is the gold standard for elections...
brooklynite
Dec 2019
#64
?!?! Distraction, paper ballots not the issue here Trump's willingness to do anything is
uponit7771
Dec 2019
#68
HERE IN MADISON - not only did DU go down (ie replaced by that hideous graphic of trump with a gun)
Kashkakat v.2.0
Dec 2019
#74