This is why I appreciate the scene in Undiscovered Country where Kronos One glides into view, seeming to align itself to the Enterprise’s orientation.

https://youtu.be/AkqZja1IBfk?t=129

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A system being slow and inefficient makes defrauding that system similarly slow and inefficient. To affect an election run on paper ballots you have to somehow physically alter or insert thousands or millions of pieces of paper without being detected. This will mean spending large amounts of time and money and must necessarily involve numerous people.

Manual in person voting is not easily scammed on a scale that can swing an election. The slow, inefficient, in person, physical process is a security feature.

I would say that “electronic voting” means that the ballot itself is digital rather than physical. So, scantrons are not electronic voting and voter registries/ID/etc. are not ballots in the first place.

Plan 9 from the Human Race

Of course not!

Mine was “banal”.

Sounds like “canal”.

Flowering and fruiting plants generally need bees, birds, etc. for pollination and seed spreading.

Ants vs. a live crab

Moisturize me!

At least twice before, Thomas has similarly defended his failure to make required disclosures as an unintentional error or a misunderstanding of the rules.

Seems like the only possible explanations are that he’s lying or he’s incompetent.

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Trade embargo.

CRETAK: A glass of Romulan ale, Doctor?

BASHIR: Thank you, Senator.

ROSS: The trading embargo has been officially lifted, if you were wondering.

BASHIR: It hadn’t crossed my mind, actually.

ROSS: To one of the many benefits of the Alliance.

I only use if for medicinal purposes!

Or, 1/50th the death rate of the general US population.

10 deaths versus 4.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics…

How do people fall for this guy’s lies? He’s not even good at it…

Her continued presence on the bench, not just on this one case, is fatally undermining the already tenuous legitimacy of the federal judiciary.