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To: CharlesOConnell

I’m not sure how effective an attack at a polling location would be in suppressing the vote, and it might suppress the remaining liberal vote more than the conservatives in a way that even overpowers the liberals early voting advantage. I already early voted for Trump, but speaking only for myself, I would have been willing to risk my life to vote in this election. I would have accepted odds much worse than I would normally accept for just about any other activity. I estimated what odds I would have been willing to accept. My estimate is that if I knew for a certainty that there was a 1% chance that I would die attempting to vote, I would do it anyway. My threshold is maybe 10%, so I would stay away if there were certain odds of 10% or greater of dying. I would not have taken odds as great as that in 2016.


16 posted on 11/02/2020 2:12:13 PM PST by Texan Tory (Laissez rouler les bons temps!)
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To: Texan Tory
I would have accepted odds much worse than I would normally accept for just about any other activity.

The threshold where I would skip voting is the same as the threshold where I would decide that (to paraphrase the Declaration of Independence) it is my right, it is my duty, to throw off a Government that evinces a design to reduce us under absolute Despotism . . .

19 posted on 11/02/2020 3:15:59 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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