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Comment Re:Not being used any more (Score 4, Informative) 171

The agency that's supposed to be in charge of securing voting machines is the Election Assistance Commission, which operates on a $10 million annual budget. A House committee voted along party lines for HR 634, the Election Assistance Commission Termination Act, which will completely shut it down by 2018.

The argument is that "this is a matter best left to the states". According to Rep. Tom Graves from Georgia, "People supporting the EAC are quite frankly proponents for a greater federal role in our elections. States themselves, they're responsible for all the elections. We do not have a federally run election system." Rep. Gregg Harper from Mississippi argued the program has "outlived its usefulness", and that closing it down would save money and cut down the size and scope of government, saying "It is time for the EAC to be officially ended. We don't need fluff".

Comment Re:This is the sort of testing the Feds should do. (Score 5, Informative) 316

I used to work at a drug manufacturer that did stability testing required by the FDA.

From each lot that's manufactured, they put some of the tablets in a bottle and leave the bottle in a large closet with controlled humidity and temperature. Then every couple months someone goes in, gets the bottle, and performs an assay on a bunch of tablets. This keeps going on schedule until the expiration date, when they stop doing the testing and throw the bottle out. In general that's all that an expiration date is- nobody's doing stability tests on that lot of tablets anymore.

Comment Re: Whew! (Score 1) 410

I didn't know that wanting to keep my personal freedom was shitty behavior.

You sound like one of those guys who sets up a gun range in front of their neighbors' backyard fence and whines about personal freedoms if they complain.

Comment Re:The New Formula (Score 1) 405

I think you replied to the wrong post. These people are making an idiotic assumption that if you move from state to state someone must be committing voter fraud by impersonating you in your old state- and they're definitely voting for Democrats, right? Only a dozen cases of voter fraud are uncovered after each election and so far it's always been someone trying to cast multiple votes for Trump after being told on Fox how easy it is.

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