Posted on 10/26/2020 10:14:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Authorities have charged a man for allegedly lighting a ballot box on fire and damaging dozens of ballots in Boston over the weekend, police said Monday. The Boston Election Department said 87 of the 122 ballots inside the dropbox were legible and able to be processed, but the rest were destroyed or unable to be counted.
Worldly Armand, 39, was taken into custody late Sunday after officers matched his appearance with the description of a person wanted for the alleged arson, police said. After a query by the officers, they found Armand was wanted on a warrant out of a local court for receiving stolen property. He will be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of willful and malicious burning.
Police said smoke was coming out of a ballot box near Copley Square early Sunday morning and firefighters extinguished the fire by filling it with water. The Boston Police Department released photos to help find the culprit.
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>>> He can’t even pull up his pants long enough to set fire to a ballot box? <<<
He’s a democrat.
One of the Boston TV stations had this on. The ballot drop box is right outside the Public Library.
The library has the highest concentration of homeless people in the city of Boston.
This guy looks to be your typical drunk/drug addict/street person. Maybe he was just trying to get warm on a cold New England evening.
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Yup. Just trying to turn the ballot drop box into one of those burn barrels.
Looks like he needs to pull his pants up.
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Looks like one of those “Poor Boys”.
What is “ranked voting?”
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It’s a complicated algorithm for ensuring that no matter how many candidates run, the Democrat wins.
Trump voter. I mean, OBVIOUSLY.
I hear ‘ya, and won’t take you up on your bet.
However, I believe in the fight, even if it means going down fighting. Contributed to No-on-2, and involved in its drive in various ways.
Imagine you have four state representative slots open, and there are six candidates for the slot.
So, the ballot says “Choose four candidates” out of those six, and you fill in the circles of the four you want.
In a non ranked system the top four vote getters get a seat, but in ranked voting where the margin of victory is low (don’t know what that is, maybe less than 1% which isn’t uncommon I believe) they do a vote runoff.
If the top candidate does not beat the second candidate by a given amount, they throw out the person with the lowest number of votes, and give that candidate’s votes to the person who is in second place and recount.
Then they look at the second and the third candidate. If the second didn’t beat the third, they take the votes for the candidate in last place and assign them to the third place candidate.
The process repeats until there are only four candidates left and all four seats have been decided by sufficient amount of votes.
In this state, it is possible that lone Republican is going to be then one getting squeezed out.
Confused? Just imagine the chicanery that will take place with this.
Hahahahahahahah...
I had a lengthy, verbose response, and you summarized in one sentence with one comma!
To be fair, search engines don’t help a lot in understanding this. There are a lot of explanations, the vast majority of which don’t seem to make sense to normal people.
Wading through them makes your eyes go glassy quickly.
I fully appreciate any Freeper who can give a better explanation than I could.
I am sure they make it sound wonderful and fully bipartisan, benefiting everyone.
A good friend is head of one of the Republican Town Committees near Cambridge. As he has put it to me privately:
“You already know the election results.”
“Then they look at the second and the third candidate. If the second didn’t beat the third, they take the votes for the candidate in last place and assign them to the third place candidate.”
But why would the votes for the last place candidate automatically go to the third-place candidate?
I did do an internet search as upchuck’s suggestion, and even though I minored in math and statistic’s, I am still not following the various examples.
That’s the easy part. What happens when the person with the most votes doesn’t have a majority?
RCV ballots are counted in a series of rounds, as shown here.
First, all the first-choice votes are counted, and if any candidate has a majority (more than half) the votes, that candidate wins, just like in our elections right now!
Otherwise, the last-place candidate (with the fewest votes) is eliminated. Any votes cast for that candidate are instantly transferred to the next preference indicated on each voter’s ballot (if the voter chose to rank more candidates).
After each round of counting, we check again to see if any candidate has won a majority. If not, step 2 is repeated until one candidate achieves more than 50% of the vote and wins.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ballots-destroyed-suspected-arson-boston-dropbox/
Ah, thanks for the concise explanation.
When with Philly, this guy epitomized the term “ball hog”.
Why, when asked if he was worried about Philly eclipsing Cleveland’s (then) record of 9 wins in a season, World replied, “Listen. I can win 9 games all by myself!”
He never suffered from want of self confidence, that’s for sure.
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