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It's simple - they hate others more than they love their kids.

It would have to generate more money than the associated prison sentences generate, and the value of slave labor is about to skyrocket.

It's grill height until the first kid shows up, then it's the distance away from the vehicle at which the kid becomes visible.

That's how it's supposed to work, but it's predicated on the incoming administration doing certain things, like signing ethics documents. Trump's team is refusing to do this.

Right. I've dabbled in DBs and work with (relatively small) datasets in Sheets/Excel all the time, and agree that it would be trivial.

But I wouldn't think that that data is available to the general public at this time, so where is this coming from? I could see if the letters were written as "hey, the public numbers look a little weird, someone with access should take a deeper look," but instead they were written as authoritative statements.

Still, there's surely lots of other races where one candidate is clearly awful, yet bullet ballot rates are still <1%.

True. I guess it's still just like to know where these numbers are coming from.

To be clear, I think what's been laid out in these two letters is sufficient for there to be hand recounts done in this instance. I also think they should just be SOP in every precinct to make it that much harder for somebody to screw with things.

My money is on Paxton.

I've been following this for a few days now, and the question I keep coming back to is:

Where are they getting these numbers on how many "bullet ballots" there were?

I really hope that it's more than just inferring based on the number of votes for Trump vs the votes for other (R) candidates down ballot. Because if that's the case, I would expect states like AZ and NC to be outliers (I don't know enough to speculate about other states).

AZ had Kari "loser" Lake running for the Senate, and she's not well liked here (to put it nicely). She already ran for governor a few years back and got beat, and a lot of people weren't happy that she was trying again for a different statewide office.

NC had Mark "black NAZI!" Robinson running for governor, and we all heard how much of a train wreck that turned out to be.

So I just wonder if this isn't a matter of there being a lot more votes for Trump, and instead just a lot less for the other candidates.

McAllen is only 65mi from the ocean; a hurricane would be horrific. It's not like Texas gets hit by hurricanes a lot, right? Right?

Yup. ::shudders::

In a previous house I rented, the HOA ladies would drive around the neighborhood roughly 3 times a week. There were less than 200 homes in the whole subdivision. Even if you walked slowly, it would only take an hour to walk the whole thing, but instead they drove.