You're completely full of it and actually have substantial accrued or inherited wealth? Because three houses is something the poor don't have.

Why should they? We can barely effect the political climate in Mongolia, and the alternative winds up with us wiping out their economy anyway.

Would +1 if I had modpoints.

The one where a space elevator on Mars could be made with regular high tensile strength steel like we have today?

He's attacking the position they effectively hold behind all the barely formed BS which doesn't explain how they'll actually keep society running. "Don't worry charity will take care of..." what exactly? Because they certainly don't donate 20-40% of their income to charity at the moment.

If a computer can manage 1 wallet per coin then so can a forensic analysis program. The data is still there in the blockchain.

Conversely it might exhonerate you entirely because once its established you were driving you have an alibi for your movements the entire way.

Because SSH doesn't do UDP traffic, whereas a VPN makes your network endpoint definitely not anywhere near you.

I'm sure you can explain how, since it's so easy, without resorting to suggesting an campaign involving thousands of people and bribes on a scale while not being brought down by 1 honest poll worker.

In a mandatory voting system, every person has to vote. Which means any attempt at multiple voting will be caught when the real owner of a name turns up to vote.

Dead people aren't on electoral rolls - some might be, but are literally thousands of dead people still rotting in their homes before they're removed from rolls, enough to sway an election? No.

The point is not that it affects all people. The point is to make it burdensome enough to hit some fraction, and hopefully combined with other effects, have it disenfranchise a group you don't want to have to actually pay attention to.

I am shocked, shocked that something which sounds like an urban myth would also just happen to support a policy principally supported by Republicans because it would disenfranchise far more then 2200 possibly fraudulent votes, which would be trivially verifiable if these people and their addresses were on official electoral rolls, which they would have to be.

This is even more shocking, because supercentarians are sufficiently rare as to be of some significant interest in human life-expectancy. It's almost like there's a vested interest in people ensuring they never confirm or find any real proof of whether or not this story is real.

Hi, I'm an electoral roll. Polling station staff check names off of me when people turn up to cast an anonymous vote. In this way, it quickly becomes apparent if a person claiming a particular name has voted multiple times, at multiple polling stations.

It turns out the rate of this happening is so low as to be nearly non-existent. It is metrically insignificant, since the small fraction of attempts do not result in enough votes to potentially change the result of an election, and if it did it would result in a re-run.

You realize that even the creators of that episode think they were being stupid about it.

The thing about voter disenfranchisement is that it doesn't work nearly as well if there's mandatory voting. The proportion of people who turn up and will cast a donkey vote is much smaller then the proportion of people who will have an opinion when they know they have to vote, whereas the ones who would vote randomly disappear as statistical noise (since they don't vote in any particular direction).

Moreover, there's no faster way to highlight the BS than when you try to send a $30 fine (the fine for missing a federal election in Australia) to an entire district who just so happened to have only the 1 polling station.