ICEis doesn’t look like they would be as agile on the monkey bars. So, checkmate.

Yes, in this district nobody has ever challenged a board seat, and it’s only happened 7 times throughout the history of the state in other districts.

Usually people just have the seat until they decide to step down.

This is the first time there has ever been a challenge to a seat and an election in this district, so where did they get the idea that estimated voters would only be ~20/location?

They said that they got it from the registrar of voters, but each parish has its own registrar and the district covers 5 parishes. So which parish/registrar came up with that number, what was it based on since it was the first election? Why was the same number applied equally when taking 5 different parishes into consideration?

This was the first of its kind of election in the district, so I would really like to know where they got those estimated numbers, and if they went only by one parish voter registrar when determining the numbers for 5 different parishes

The thing is this was the first of its kind election for this district, so where did those estimates even come from? If you give a number it’s got to be from somewhere right?

And they were just paper ballots. Nothing special about them. Here’s a picture of one of the ballots

Literally nobody could find a printer and some scissors and tell voters they would have more ballots in an hour or so?

This is the kind of election where usually only people who specifically are invested in the thing bother

This is exactly why so many people showed up. The district encompasses 5 parishes. Both candidates represent different parts of the district with different interests at stake.

The incumbent candidate lives in New Orleans, runs urban gardens around the city, and used her position on the board to create a program that has allowed others to create more gardens and rent tools through the program.

The candidate that challenged her is a commercial fisherman from a smaller town. The department that has jurisdiction over the board is set to be given oversight of testing for seafood safety and regulations. The bill is literally just sitting on the Governor’s desk waiting to be signed.

I am honestly kind of suspicious of the candidate that challenged her bc he never mentioned this while he was running.

Putting that aside, and assuming his intentions were good, I could also see why many voters in smaller communities within the district, who depend on the fishing industry for jobs, would want someone like him to have the position on the board.

The incumbent was announced the winner, and that’s who I voted for. I still believe there should be a re-do. Voters were turned away from an election that their tax dollars paid for. Unacceptable.

Elections official here, though in a different state.

I’m glad you commented bc I have a question you might be able to answer. The district covers 5 parishes (we do parishes instead of counties) but the news article states the registrar of voters provided the number of 300 ballots at each location and expectation of 20 voters.

Only 3 of the 5 parishes actually had voting locations, so voters from 2 parishes had to travel to vote.

Each parish has its own registrar. It’s unclear which parish the registrar that provided that estimate is from, but why would anyone expect the estimated number of voters in smaller parishes to be exactly the same as larger parishes?

I don’t know if some party just googled “election” and mobilized for this, but this kind of turnout was new and unexpected.

The only reason there was an election is because the incumbent candidate was suddenly challenged by a commercial fishing captain. Keep this in mind, and remember that because of our proximity to the gulf, fishing and seafood is still a pretty big industry for the state.

It was all very odd, and caught people’s attention mainly because:

A. Typically people on the board hold these seats unchallenged for as long as they wish to remain on the board.

B. The district covers 5 parishes, but this board member is from New Orleans/Orleans Parish. She runs several urban gardens and contributes to local farmers markets. This is likely why she was able to mobilize so many voters, and why the news of the vote spread like it did.

C. Some weird things that have happened regarding voting the last two times the city voted, has everyone on high alert for attempts to sneak corruption through without people realizing it.

The election was on Saturday. As it turns out, the Tuesday before the election, the Louisiana Senate President had signed a bill to change the regulation process for seafood safety and testing. It is still sitting on the governor’s desk, just waiting to be signed.

The bill also gives oversight of seafood regulation to the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. The conservation board the candidates were running for also just happens to fall under the jurisdiction of this same department.

Louisiana lawmakers send seafood safety, oversight bill to Landry’s desk

House Bill 652, authored by Rep. Timothy Kerner, R-Lafitte, dissolves the current Seafood Safety Task Force under the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism and reestablishes it within the Agriculture Department.

Kerner said the bill was carefully amended to ensure that domestic shrimpers are not inadvertently swept up in new enforcement efforts.

If this is all be one big coincidence, it certainly is an odd one. Rather than risk some kind of typical Louisiana good ole boy corruption BS, why not just allow everyone that wants to vote, the chance to vote?

It turns out the incumbent candidate from New Orleans won, but they’re not releasing any numbers of how many votes she actually won compared to the other candidate.

I voted for her, but I still strongly believe they should call for a re-do bc this all sets a very bad precedent for the future. Even though it’s not a normal election, our tax dollars fund this board. You should not be able to turn voters away, and then just shrug it off as incompetence or special circumstance.

I actually found out it covers 5 parishes but they only had voting locations in 3, which makes the first come first serve thing even more bizarre.

The election was for one member on a board. The only reason there was an election was because a new candidate challenged the incumbent candidate, which usually never happens. Usually people remain on the board for as long as they would like to hold that position. Why this seat in particular?

The incumbent is the only board member from Orleans, and runs community gardens throughout the city, so I would argue that if anything, Orleans has a considerable amount to do with this particular election. How did the registrar even come up with that number if this is the first of its kind of election for this district?

I believe another member of the board will have a seat that can be challenged soon. If that seat is challenged, whichever Parish that board member is from hopefully gets a lot of support behind them of the people of the parish feel they’re doing a good job.

Also find it a little suspicious, this guy challenging her seat is a commercial fishing captain, and recently Louisiana Republicans passed a bill to deregulate seafood safety and hand oversight to the department that controls this board.

Actually found out the district covers 5 parishes but they only had voting locations in 3.

There is a separate registrar for each parish, so who is the “official” registrar they mention in the article and how did she generate that expect around 20 voters at each location number?

That’s the thing though, is it just incompetence or is it an attempt to see what people are willing to let slide?

We definitely need a re-do bc otherwise it signals that we’re ok with letting it happen again and again. Will there be enough ballots when it’s time for us to vote for elections with more at stake like mayor or in the midterms?

I could see low expectations from the registrar of voters for turnout, but 60 people in the entire city? And they just didn’t have any kind of plans if more showed up?

We’re the first state to start using the DOGE voter database maintenance system. Will we end up with some kind of “glitch” that purges voters on top of being told the registrar made a miscalculation when estimating how many people would actually show up to vote?

What they’re supposed to start doing here (or at least they were when the last governor left office, not sure if they still will do it now that democracy is crumbling) is paper and then scan every ballot so it can also be included in recounts.

As of now with most elections in LA, it’s electronic only and votes don’t get included in recounts unless they’re mail in.

It’s not paper ballots I’m pissed about, (but like I said, it also seems like that could open up the door to more BS given what happened in the recount) it’s the fact that anyone would pretend 900 ballots would be enough for the entire city, and that they had no backup plan for when they weren’t.

Well again, we were told by our president earlier this week our ally Russia was handling Iran and that was why we should just step back and let them fuck up Ukraine.

Meanwhile, our good friends in the Russian government and the state controlled media, have been cheering on destabilization of the U.S. and the production of Civil War! being put on in L.A. by the POTUS

Enjoy the military parade this weekend. I wonder who could have inspired that brilliant idea? 🤔

Moscow Victory Day Parade

Also, a friendly reminder once again, the original members of the Heritage Foundation spent a lot of time in Russia prior to and immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union, helping to create Russia’s very first “free market.”

“You capture the Soviet Union --I’m going to capture the states.”-Thomas Roe to fellow Heritage Foundation member Robert Krieble

They also established centers for freedom and democracy throughout Eastern Europe. Despite everything that would seem to indicate Putin despises democracy, Putin liked the ideas of the Heritage Foundation so much, he started creating think tanks of his own.

2009: In the Heart Of New York, Russia’s ‘Soft Power’ Arm Gaining Momentum

Migranyan says the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation is not financed with Kremlin money, and that Kucherena depends on support from private sponsors. Nevertheless, the institute’s views rarely diverge from that of the Kremlin’s. Neither does one of its key stated goals – studying Western democracy and “offering recommendations for its improvement.” Founder Kucherena has argued that no country can monopolize the definition of democracy and human rights.

2015: Pro-Putin Think Tank Based In New York Shuts Down

Migranyan used the institute to function as a kind of unofficial spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. Migranyan told the Associated Press in 2008 that the creation of the institute had been approved by the Kremlin, but that it was funded privately through business donations.

That sounds kinda familiar… Oh yeah, it’s because it’s the same way the first free market of Russia was described in that 1991 Washington Post article about the first U.S.-Russia business created by the Heritage Foundation

Businessman Robert Krieble, who donated fax machines, computers and copiers to dissidents in the Soviet Union when “they were illegal,” Lozansky said, is one of the financial supporters.

“Russia House is not financed by governments but by private people,”

Putin-linked think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 US election - documents

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•What Is Truth (Live at The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)

All war, all the time, 24/7/365! Are you not entertained, America?

Meanwhile, Trump has suddenly been playing that good guy cop role very hard over the last few days and pretending like he was actually urging Netenyahu to stop the war in Gaza.

Trump also agreed to back away from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and allow Putin to retaliate against Ukraine with as much force as they felt necessary in exchange for Russia allegedly keeping Iran in check.

As all this was happening, Trump had a very public Twitter war with Elon Musk, and while everyone was paying attention to that, most people missed that Netenyahu admitted he had been arming the bans of criminals in Gaza with ties to Isis, who have been accused of raiding aid supplies for citizens who are being starved and murdered while trying to reach the official aid checkpoints allowed by Israel.

Also on the same day, the Trump administration sanctioned judges in the ICC who had created an arrest warrant for Netenyahu over war crimes.

Our long term allies in Europe are standing with those ICC judges against the Trump administration, but again, most people in the U.S. are unaware of this bc they were being distracted by the show put on for them by two grown men with way too much money and power.

Meanwhile in the Israeli government, Netenyahu failed to pass a law that would keep his most conservative base from being drafted and subject to the same laws the rest of Israel is subject to. This risked his position of power and led to a vote on Wednesday that would have dissolved his government. It didn’t pass, but the vote proved he has lost support due to the way he’s leading his country. 24 hours later, once he was reassured his power was safe, he does this and makes comments that he actually had Trump’s full support before Trump released any comments or acknowledgements about what he did.

Also sounds like Netenyahu is very much planning to invade Iran, and parroting similar talking points made by Trump earlier this week regarding a different war.

Trump pledges to ‘liberate’ LA as he visits troops at Fort Bragg

Netanyahu thanks Trump for support; tells Iranians ‘your liberation from tyranny is closer than ever’

It’s complicated. This pretty clearly targeting our “progressive” sheriff who the governor believes was installed by George Soros (I’m not joking).

The state already sued and took her to court to make her drop the city’s sanctuary policy that is a result of a federal consent decree. They lost in court, so they made this new law to try and force her instead.

It’s been a wild few months

Then after all that we still had the 10 inmates who escaped after being let out of her overcrowded and underfunded jail by a jail employee. This is also being blamed on “progressive policies” (Even though the reason it was overcrowded was bc the governor established a permanent police force in the city and filled the jails with people who were pulled over for things like window tint level and then arrested on unrelated charges.)

Because they are state police, they have never been bound by city rules, and they can do whatever they want. They have already been working with ICE this whole time. The governor has even released an EO that brought on 5 state agencies to already work with ICE that ranges from the National Guard to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (I’m not joking)

Still, he couldn’t just leave the city law enforcement alone, bc he couldn’t stand not having full control.

I’ve made the Kent state comparison before

https://bsky.app/profile/pimentomori123.bsky.social/post/3lldidjovok24

I think most of the boomer age range Trump supporters (at least the ones in my family) are aware of Kent state and don’t have a favorable view towards what happened there. That’s why it’s important that they know this is happening, but for some reason it’s barely gotten any coverage

I know, I didn’t mean people weren’t paying attention to the news. It kinda seems like it’s intentionally not being mentioned. It happened yesterday.

That’s what the article is about.

This is the only news coverage I’ve seen of it, and most of America doesn’t even seem to know about it

Yeah I posted here a few days ago about trying to find a good alternative. I’m very sad to see lemme.ee go

Sorry if this is a dumb question, still figuring things our.

How else would you use the platform without joining an instance? Just have a private server?