GOP voters had higher excess deaths rates after COVID vaccine rollout

The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.

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[roman]

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I first became aware of electronic voting cyber security issues in an upper level CS course in the late '90s. I was shocked at the differences in how the same companies who designed banking equipment failed to build in similar and adequate security features into their voting systems - the stated reason being that it wasn't in the requirements.

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There's a good reason for that: Voting has a requirement of recording an accurate tally while voters stay 100% anonymous. There is no banking system in the world that could work that way. Even cryptocurrency can be back-tracked to a specific account since they use a public transaction ledger.

 

[roman]

Can you explain that. I thought voting in the USA was secret, so you can register any way you like, then walk into a polling station and vote for whoever you want to vote for? And nobody would know?

A primary election is where voters can choose the person (of their party) to be on the ballot of the general election. Those votes are usually only cast by the people registered to that party.

This makes sense because if they allowed anybody to vote for a primary, an opposing party could deliberately hijack it by voting in a weaker candidate.

 

[roman]

And it takes a certain bravery to admit that level of personal paradigm-shifting catastrophic wrongness. More so when surrounded by a cohort that increasingly vocally denounces any divergence, reflection, or evolution as "treason" or "heresy".
I'm sure there are lots of the secretly vaxxed out there in MAGAland.

Heck I remember advertisements and radio commercials for clinics that will vaccinate discreetly (as in closed door, appointment only, no lines, no waiting rooms). Those clinics probably did well in red areas.

Meanwhile I got vaccinated out in the open, in my car at Dodgers Stadium-- along with thousands of other people.