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You certainly can if you'd like, you won't get a full refund of the value you spent. I ended up just buying my phone in the EU and bringing it back to Canada with me. An EU phone can run a US or Canadian SIM without issue - the problem only happens in the other direction.

So, like, my suggestion is just buy your phone in the EU then it'll work everywhere with any SIM.

I applaud any electoral reform but the best solution is to just do away with primaries and have all interested candidates run in a single round using approval voting or some similar method.

Primaries exist as a method to slightly address shortcomings of our shitty FPTP system, if we improve the main voting system then primaries wouldn't be necessary.

The US is fucking weird. I'd honestly suggest you just buy a ready-out-of-box phone from the EU. EU laws make the device a whole lot more functional than what you'll get in the US.

If you travel to the EU it's easiest just to buy it in person over here - there are plenty of retailers that'll just sell you a new phone in box same day.

Granted, people can't tell if a phone is unlocked when they're stealing it so having an unlocked phone doesn't make it more likely you'd be targeted for theft.

I'm uncertain, but it's certainly quite possible these folks were trolling. My main point was that it's not as much about what the folks in sheets intended as much as it's about how they're perceived. Elections are pretty important and people are pretty sensitive right now so even if these folks did it for the lulz they may have actually intimidated and suppressed some votes.

Hey let's not lie to ourselves... most of those megabytes of JS are there to disable the copy functionality for anyone browsing our site.

Why? ... reasons. Someone in marketing said a thing once.

Yeah, or something like "My body my choice" there are lots of pins or patches you could draw inference (sometimes incorrectly, of course) from.

I'm currently trying to get assessed for ASD - I've had days where I involuntarily go non-verbal and feel pain whenever I try to speak.

There's a large comorbidity (overlap, basically) between ADHD and ASD - and I think this is more of an ASD thing than an ADHD sort of thing.

Because he's never, ever, faced consequences for his actions.

He's a spoiled little shit.

Nah, a lot of old tech. I used to work on shit like this... loading all your images (including the fucking rounded corners for IE) into a sprite... setting up caching, using prefetching and inlined CSS/JS for critical path stuff.

There was a whole industry around web performance in the days that a customer might be trying to download your site over their 256 kbps connection.

It's neat tech and I miss fiddling with it. I honestly found it a lot more fulfilling than the SPA era of web design.

Also, as a note, you could probably use concealer on the exterior to tone down the crazy as fuck black veins.

Best of luck!

Sure but what happened in the civil rights era was that anyone who was black was assumed to be voting against the racist as fuck candidate... so if you showed up and were black you'd be run off, beaten, or lynched.

Let's say you're me - I'm a man with a beard who wears skirts - I show up to vote and take a wild guess who I'm voting for... it's not the chucklefuck that wants to persecute all my trans friends. Based on appearance alone (including swag you might have pinned to your bag) you could try and make a guess about how someone may vote.

Yea - to clarify I'm not a lawyer and, while I'm legally curious, this isn't something I've read a lot of. I know that during the Civil Rights era Johnson sent the national guard into some voting locations to specifically keep police and sheriffs out... in theory that was resolved with the voting rights act but the Supreme Court decided to effectively repeal most of that so... I dunno. I'd like to clarify that my statement regarding police officers was entirely speculation.

The information about fraud reporting is as accurate as I can manage though - the federal government has a page to look up that information on a state by state basis.

I disagree, masked people at a voting place carries an implicit threat of violence... this may be some dumb teenagers or it may be crazy sov cit folks... either way their presence absolutely could scare off people intending to vote.

People who are obscuring their identity are usually doing so to avoid notice or repercussions for their actions... I think it's reasonable to expect people in a voting location to be clearly visible and recognizable.

So, unfortunately, the police are often not politically neutral and usually skew towards a conservative bent - this is also likely explicitly outside their jurisdiction since it involves a federal election (and America has a really dark history of law enforcement interfering with elections) so, charitably, they may have been unable to act even if they wanted to.

The correct authority in this case would be one of these folks I believe (I'm not a Georgia native):

https://sos.ga.gov/form/stop-voter-fraud

https://law.georgia.gov/resources/election-fraud-complaint-hotline

https://www.eac.gov/voters/register-and-vote-in-your-state?field_state_target_id=18206

In actuality, it might be best to start by just calling these folks (phone number from the page above).

404-656-2871

That's almost certainly super illegal. Unless there's a weird local exemption It's illegal to misrepresent yourself as a government official (this usually comes up with law enforcement but it covers all "regular" public employees - i.e. not private contractors hired by the government).

Please report this and include as many photos or other physical proof you may have as I really suspect it's an attempt at voter intimidation.

Oh, 100% - I should have been clearer that this erosion of enforcement is entirely driven by the GOP and quite intentional.

Seems like run of the mill super illegal voter intimidation - maybe aimed at discouraging black voters by invoking images of the klan?

Nah, it really bugs me how much outlets are skimping on good copy editors these days. Mistakes like this shouldn't happen and in the Era of people sharing and commenting on articles on social media based on title alone this is a pretty awful error.