Warm and moist. Supposed to be clear though. It was a bit more moist and a bit warmer yesterday by late afternoon than was really comfortable. Seems like spring is already starting to shift toward summer. I know it is too early to really say that, but that’s what it feels like.
I did my errands yesterday as well as my civic duty. I don’t like the “new” voting machines that Harris County is using. The electronic machine produces a printed sheet, that is human readable but also has a printed code on it. IDK if they are using text recognition to read the printed choices, or more likely encoding those choices into the barcode and then scanning that. Either way, I have no way of knowing that my choices are actually scanned or read by the separate reader machine. At least the paper pages are saved in a lockbox under the reader. Whether they are ever audited or not is another question. If I was forced to use the setup, and I was in charge, I’d be auditing that the machine tallies match paper hand counts especially in contested precincts and races.
I also don’t like the potential to tie a voter to his vote with a high degree of probability. Every step of the way is recorded and the timing could be correlated. After all, I was the only voter in the room for 5 minutes, that ballot pretty much has to be mine. My electronic check-in is logged. My assigned number is logged into the voting machine, which prints a unique piece of paper, which is then logged into another machine that tallies. Wouldn’t be too hard to collate.
There were several propositions on the ballot. Several seemed to be stage setting for an independent Texas.
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I did some more poking at my hobby website too. Oy. Glad I don’t have to do it here.
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I’ve noticed a billboard war going on in Houston between pro-“Palestinian” and pro-Israeli forces. The “palestinian” ones often quote the Bible, and the Israeli ones are often vandalized. The tone deafness shown by an appeal to “save the children of Palestine” by people who launch rockets at Jewish children, and recently raped, murdered, tortured, and desecrated Jews in Israel is just mind blowing.
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I’ve also noticed an increase in illegal dumping and other vandalism around town, even in areas that didn’t suffer from it in the past. And an increase in spanish on billboards, store names, and apartment complexes. The invasion is ongoing. Lot more crippled and deformed illegals too. Missing limbs, skeletal issues, difficulty even walking- used to be uncommon to see on the street. Not any more.
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Big change is coming. Are you prepared? Stack more.
nick