Rachel

Rachel

@badachie.bsky.social

🗳️Just your friendly neighborhood election official. She/her 🦩

1,285 Followers 388 Following 497 Posts Joined May 2023
1 month ago

Oh, so it's not just me?

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1 month ago

Every election official in a swing state knows what site Jared is talking about.

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1 month ago

Folks, I promise you the election officials in places Trump would want to target have been on this earth longer than one day. They have thought about federal interference in their elections before.

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1 month ago
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Yeah, Tom, I know.

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1 month ago

Yeah, us local election officials know. We plan and prepare.

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1 month ago

Do you think local election officials don't have plans for what to do if a polling place can't be used for an election?

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1 month ago

I mean, not really? There's not such thing as a few key precincts. Want to close all the polling place in Madison, Wisconsin? That's still over 100 polling places. How many federal agents do you think it takes to close 100 polling places?

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1 month ago

The vast, vast majority of the United States votes on paper ballots.

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1 month ago

Right?! Like are you going to seize every machine in Wisconsin?

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1 month ago

It's less accurate and will take longer, but us election administrators will hand count if we don't have machines.

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1 month ago

That's like Jessica's entire job, Ben.

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1 month ago

Can I ask why you have so little confidence in local election officials? Have you ever talked to one?

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2 months ago

Nathaniel is, of course, correct, and if anyone thinks 10,000 separate election jurisdictions will simply decide to violate their own state and local laws and not hold elections because President Trump says so, you have never talked to a county clerk.

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2 months ago

Is that supposed to be an argument in it's favor?

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3 months ago

I will reiterate my controversial take on this that Congressional pay is way too low, and the only way to combat this is to raise it by like 3-4x.

I'm a successful lawyer with a varying income and in a typical month, I make more money than my congressperson.

I could not afford two households.

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3 months ago

But the current salary makes it almost impossible for those who aren't already rich to serve in Congress.

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3 months ago

Attendance awards (especially in elementary school) are so dumb. Not getting sick (or going to school sick) doesn't make a kid more deserving of fun.

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4 months ago

I get lots of people hate FSAs but I find them useful. I can budget for contacts, prescriptions and deductibles that way.

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4 months ago
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4 months ago

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

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5 months ago
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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5 months ago

I'm blaming perimenopause for everything these days.

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5 months ago

i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny

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6 months ago

My kid drove off with her keys in the house once. Discovered she didn't have them with her after she made a stop for coffee.

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6 months ago

Evers is not term limited. (But he is not running again.)

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6 months ago

I'm an actually a big nap person on vacation.

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6 months ago
Obama in Tan Suit

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate #SimplerTimes #PresidentialScandal

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7 months ago

Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas Rangers to investigate the missing Democratic lawmakers. Call me crazy but this seems beyond the scope of what a baseball team should be tasked with.

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7 months ago

Sorry, no: Lawyers who defend stripping birthright citizenship from 150,000 infants a year deserve to have that held against them. Forever.

We should shame every lawyer who defends this egregiously unconstitutional cruelty. They are a stain on the legal profession.

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8 months ago

Hot dogs taste best at the ballpark with the sun shining.

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