Do you know how many voter registrations your state removed because the registrant had died? Do you know there's a federal report that lists this data every two year? No? Then stop whining that your voter roll ought to be cleaned.
From second breakfast to morning snack to early lunch, it was a fun walk. And because it was a walk, I had the time to see everything along the way, including the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer at the corner of Dale Street and Carroll Avenue.
Stop 3: ZAO Bakery + Café. Some of my favorites here aren't baked. The congee and noodle bowls are to die for, and who doesn't love a steamed bun? But they do have plenty of baked options. I went outside my comfort zone with a hot dog flower bun.
Stop 2: Marc Heu Patisserie Paris. A buttery kouign amann has a crunchy caramel crust. Unless one takes the caramel and puts it in soft form atop a cinnamon cream. Innovative instead of classic, but more decadent than ever.
Stop 1: Razava Bread Co. If you're used to glossy bagels, this isn't it. Instead, the crisp, slightly scorched exterior has just as much texture as the chewy interior with its tangy flavor of slow-fermented serious grains.
The Ultimate Dale Street Bakery Crawl From a block west of Dale Street to almost a block east of it, only one of the three bakeries was actually on Dale Street. But most of the walking was. And 1.4 miles of a beautiful morning in Saint Paul yielded 3 very different treats. 🧵
I'm fascinated that an independent expenditure group (which I'll leave nameless) on behalf of a Minneapolis candidate (ditto) is urging voters to vote by mail *or* request an absentee ballot.
Parrish writes, "Buying Dominion? It’s personal. 'These machines are too easy to tamper with,' [Burress has] said." Except that searching for "These machines are too easy to tamper with," I find zero hits aside from Parrish's own document.
Minor details regarding Burress are a bit off — whether he's 82 or 83, whether he founded Citizens for Community Values in the ‘80s or took over its leadership in 1991. And then we get a supposed quote, supposedly from him, to explain his supposed personal connection ...
Parrish describes Burress as "a battle-hardened Ohio Republican, former election official, and lifelong crusader against everything from porn to political corruption." Most of that fits Burress. But I find no evidence he was ever an election official. Unlike Leiendecker.
Parrish writes that "Phil Burress ... has quietly acquired Dominion Voting Systems." Do a google search. There are zero other sources tying Burress to this acquisition. Instead, every other source mentions Scott Leiendecker.
This is bizarre even by Phil Parrish standards. He's published his take on Dominion Voting Systems' recent acquisition. It hallucinates the identity of the man behind the new company, blends one aspect of the real guy into the hallucinated one, and throws in a dubious "quote." 🧵
My memory is that when my institution declared itself “Extraordinary People, Extraordinary Place,” a brief web search revealed that several other entities of various kinds had said the same of themselves.
The logic to suggesting people just rank him and no one else is that he's afraid that if they rank someone else, they'll rank that person *ahead* of him. He's confident enough of making it into the final round that he has no reason to care who is ranked behind him on a ballot, so it's all downside.
With regard to whether Ward 6 voting loses as much steam this year, I offer up these two graphs. One includes all forms of early voting (including in particular by mail, which kicks in later) and the other is limited to just the in-person voting.
As an MIT alumnus, I'm proud of President Kornbluth's letter responding to the proposed "compact". She encapsulated the values I remember not only in the substance of her response but in its phrasing. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
And please turn off automatic spelling "correction" on stuff you paste in. Nothing worse than taking the trouble to paste in the correct spelling, and then you press the space bar to put a space after it, and boing, suddenly it is "corrected" instead of correct.
Or if you really want a "registered voters" denominator, at the county and state levels one can wait for the EAVS data (which is now out for 2024), because that includes registration counts as of the end of the election.
Conversely, the conventional choice of 7AM doesn't count the EDRs of people newly arriving from out of state or turning 18, so it could be an undercount in those university areas (for example). But that tends to balance out with the people who have departed for other states (e.g., after graduation).
one winds up with approximately double counting in each precinct in high mobility areas (e.g., the precincts surrounding a university) because voters moving from A to B and meanwhile others moving from B to A are getting counted in both their origin (7AM) and destination (EDR) which roughly equal.
