Voting by Mail: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2024
- With the 2020 presidential election nearing and a pandemic in full swing, John Oliver discusses why voting by mail is necessary, the fearmongering surrounding it, and why we need to start planning for November right now.
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Voting by mail is critical to military, homebound, elderly, and disabled. It has been used for decades and it works. Thank you for highlighting the truth about voting by mail!
I used it during college. Using it in this Election as well.
I think you are mixing up "Absentee" voting with "Voting by Mail". To vote Absentee in many states, one must swear to a listed valid reason as to why you cannot make it to the polls: student, disabled, etc. Simply not wanting to stand in line for hours is not a valid reason.
Edit: I am not personally saying not wanting to wait in line isn't a valid reason! That is simply what my state and many others have as laws on their books. It needs to change! I believe voting by mail AND online should be commonplace!
@@B_Bodziak Why is that not a valid reason? Unless proof of fraud can be shown, why is that not a valid reason? Who decides what is a valid reason and what isn't?
@@mourgraine221100 Oh, I agree that not wanting to wait in line IS a valid reason, but many states do not allow that!
Lll
Ok here's the thing: I was born and raised in Germany. Voting there means you get mail from the government early enough. No matter if it is a national, statewide or local election, you get either to choose to vote on location at the day in a school or wherever or you can choose to vote by mail. In some states they'll send you the forms with the mail including a free envelope included that has a printed on prepay stamp. In others you can just ring up or write you want a form for mail voting. And then you can vote the way you like. And surprise: It works and we never really had substantial problems with voter fraud.
And now that they mentioned it in the show: A politician who urges citizens NOT to go to an election is a complete shame for a democracy and should immediately be thrown out. This is crazy illegal shit.
The US is not a democracy and I would argue a politician pointing out the flaws in a system used to determine the direction the country should take even though it would likely damage his numbers is a noble one.
Germany is one of the many civilized countries.
@@thomasmc9611 He was talking about the Missouri governor's statements at 4:05, I believe. What he said was downright freighting. By the way, the US is a representative democracy.
Right. You live in _Germany_ a normal, functional country. The United States is not that. Not even close. HELP US!!
I am a German guy... our biggest problem with the election system is the debate about a gender equality in the parliament.
When I saw this i thought that this is a report about rwanda or uganda....
Voting in Switzerland:
- every Swiss resident is registered at the municipalty they live in (mainly for tax purposes)
- when there is a vote, every Swiss citizen (18y+) receives an envelope from the municipalty containing a voter card, ballots and a return envelope
- ballots are filled out by hand with yes/no (or names in case of elections)
- the voter card is signed
- the voter card and ballots are put into the return envelope and sent back to the municipalty by mail
Same in Germany
@@Raguel88 In Germany we don't sign voter cards, because it could lead to the government tracking who voted what. Rest is true though
Well I am sorry not all live in rich countries like Switzerland,some of the youth have to make their own country rich AGAIN
@@Raguel88 I even got my envelope to participate in German municipality elections while residing in the Netherlands!
Best way to trace desent is to let people put their name on it imo, election ballots themselves need to be anonymus.
It’s 2 weeks after the 2020 presidential election. This aged like fine wine Mr.Oliver.
@lit lit that's fine, he's a Sewage Treatment Plant now.
It’s 7 weeks after the election. He certainly got the taking a dump on stage part right.
Aethel Wolfe
“The press controlled state” by Charlamagne.
m.ua-cam.com/video/K-g8yktEmmc/v-deo.html
Fine wine ? Trump was right democrats stole the election by not giving an inch on verification of signatures on mail ballots
@@clarkwatson3217 lmao you still on this fraud mess 🤪
Calling Tucker Carlson a 'Human Boat-Shoe' is probably one of the greatest, deepest, and most intricately-layered insults I have ever heard. It effectively sums up the man's class, his entitled arrogance, his shallow existence, his actual relatability to his fellow Americans, and the microscopic value of all those parts in summation to reality. Bravo!
He called him a wanker without actually saying it 😂 w-anchor
sandy pandy Jesus Christ. This joke just keeps getting deeper. Like an anchor would......
And your breakdown-analysis of the insult is insightful and informative. Not all heroes wear capes!
:)
Hey, boat shoes are cool do not defame them with a comparison to a reptile
@sharkbaitj and lagerly useless for the majority of society
I live in Washington state where we have had only voting my mail for years. I really like it, no standing in line and you can sit down with all your info and take time to carefully decide all your choices.
Which is likely one of many reasons they don't want you able to do it.
Oregonian myself, but I totally agree.
Yeah, I can research every candidate and resolution before I vote. I love that about WA.
Akmal Ibrahim So obviously a troll that you don’t even know how ridiculous this comment was.
@@akmal94ibrahim Okay, cool, but what's your point here?
I love how they can acknowledge that a higher voter participation can go in the democrats favor. Imagine thinking that having a higher voter participation is a bad thing. Quite the democracy we have going
@@Monochromatic_Spider Because the people who vote for them don't believe, or simply don't care that they're actually the minority (politically). They only care if they win.
Watch the rules for rulers video. It talks about majority suppression in democracys (amongst other things) Kinda insane that they flatout admit it.
Yeah, they used to try to keep this shit more under wraps, but I guess these days they're more willing to say out-loud what they're thinking. Guess they figure if they have the government enough by the balls, then they can be as brazen and outrageous as they want and nobody can stop them. At this point, they feel they have a good deal of power, so they feel entitled to admit that the reason they don't want mail-in voting is because (they think that) it would work against them.
I appreciate you bringing this up, because it really says everything about the Republican party you need to know: They don't care about the will of the majority. And that they are anti-democracy. And if they don't care about the will of the people as a whole, then the only other reasonable conclusion is that they care about themselves: Power, money, or whatever else they get for being in office, or for supporting those in office...that's what they care about. They care about GETTING something from their country, not about giving. Contrast that with what John F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
They've lied to us. They've stolen livelihoods from us. And they've told us it's our own fault. So this November, let's show them what we're made of. Let's give them the ass-kicking they deserve. 💪👊🤙
Republicans seem to be highly scared of democracy. LOL
Republicans are the enemies of Democracy, what other conclusion can be drawn. They only care about keeping power.
As an aspiring artist, I actually have many fully functioning pencils and I know exactly where my pencil sharpener is, so I thought to myself, "I'm not living in a fantasy land." But, then I remembered I'm an aspiring artist... Well played, Mr. Oliver. Well played.
🤣🤣🤣
exactly the joke I was about to make as a graphic designer 😂
"An aspiring artist is just an author before they get their obligatory drinking problem."
- Stephen King
Ok, Stephen King didn't actually say that, it was just my first thought when I read, "I'm an aspiring artist." But it sounds better if he said it.
Same …
I know for a fact that I have pencil sharpeners, I'm still in school and an artist, but I could only find my one broken sharpener when he said that.
I'm German. I love this show. But while we have a boatload of problems here, many episodes make me wonder what's going on across that pond.
Voting by mail is such a standard thing here. They actually send you a return envelope along with your voting information and verification. You can decide whether you want to take that to the polling station and hand it over in exchange for your ballot or send it in to receive your ballot by mail.
I used to always go vote in person and tried mail voting when I had to work. It takes time but it is incredibly convenient. All the information and deadlines are on there, there is little chance of error. Apply for mail vote (automatically invalidating your direct vote) by sending your verification back (or do it online or by phone, I think that works as well), get the ballot, make a cross, sign it, use the return envelopes that even come in two colours with lots of "how to" information. Put it in the mail. Secure, easy, convenient and relatively fast.
It's like an episode about why the USA should have water pipes from non-poisonous materials or like, human rights or whatever. It feels so bizarre. We're not unconcerned over here either but it feels like we share half of your problems and are only half concerned about them.
Same with going to the doctor for free or not going to jail without trial or all those other things. Then again, we don't have Adam Driver. Crush me like my crippling debt, you abominable leviathan! Break me like my faith in humanity, you fearsome hunk!
It's a dumpster fire masquerading as a country.
as the rest of the world, i don't understand u.s. citizens
Daniel Sanchez Bravo as a US citizen, I wish I could let you know but I'm just as lost
Daniel Sanchez Bravo It’s been a rough year for us and it’s getting worse.
The US a Neapolitan ice cream of social economic problems just sprinkled with disproportionate death of blacks at at hands of law enforcement with a racism as 🍒 on top
Voting in Germany:
You always have the option how to Vote. On the voting-day or by mail or weeks before the voting in registered places.
And in germany the voting-day is on the weekend and not in the middle of the week during working hours. (Who would've thought that the voter turnout is higher if ppl don't need to go to work at the same time/day. >_>)
@@Kakyo01 ya, for some weird reason Germany wants their people to vote...like, it's a democracy
Similar here in Sweden
And no one ever trots out these boogeymen of "voter fraud" to scare people over 55 with less ability to discern bullshit (thats science btw)
Du bist auch überall. Wait... Da ich das weiß, bin ich folglich auch überall🤔🤯 (we've definitely got too much thyme on our hands- get the reference🤨😁?)
Quarantine agressive John is the best thing that came out of this Pandemic
"You human boat-shoe" is a FANTASTIC insult.
He brings me so much joy!
I agree, and would like to add in Simon Whistler from Business Blaze here on YT, watching these two slowly "adjusting" to quarantine has saved me from becoming completely feral, so far.
John is 'revenge' for the American Revolution-the best.
Jay RichRogers because he has an army of writers, and he says what’s written in a script they give him, you crayon chewing idiot.
As an Oregonian I appreciated the shoutout. Our voting system doesn't get talked about near enough. It really is awesome.
As an Oregonian I agree
Same here in Wisconsin.
Same for me as a guy registered in Oregon and living in Germany.
There is sooooo much wrong with my homecountry of Germany, yet I feel like living in paradise every time I watch news from the US
You still have grass. It's not the greenest on your side, but you still have grass. The US has no grass
@@SpyroTheGerudo But luckily a growing lot of weed.
Exactly how I feel.
I spend a lot of my time participating in political groups in my hometown because there is just so much I want to change in Germany, but seeing the US is on a whole new level
Thank you so much for the suggestion!
It turned out to an excellent read!
I definitely wouldn’t come right now lol
There are sooo many amazing quotes from the episode.
“Chernobyl casual”
“You Human boat shoe”
“First you have to know a dead person, which is hard they are anti-social”
And I am only halfway through. Thank you John!
Yes!!! Thought exactly the same thing. So rewarding.
"At a certain point, hunger outweighs fear" the official slogan of Taco Bell
Best comment by far.
I really like how John and his crew talk about issues that are about to become a problem and educate the general public about it, rather than getting views by simply commenting on shit that has already happend. Keep up the good work!
It's totally one sided coverage though. For example, he basically just blew off the whole possibilty of election fraud, which doesn't broadly happen because now because mail ballots aren't widespread in places with contentious races.
He didn't talk at all about ballot harvesting (which flipped a state level race in CA not that long ago), or about boleteros and politiqueros who play a significant part in down ballot races in certain states. A practice that I'd expect to get a lot bigger if we moved to all mail balloting.
Or to put it another way, he's basically doing the same thing as claiming in 1812 that gerrymandering isn't a real problem that anyone should be concerned about, it doesn't happen enough to have any real effect.
Also, I find it hypocritical for him to mention routine list maintenance as a good thing that often happens, when was he opposed to "voter roll purges" in a previous video? It's literally the same practice, just different terms depending on if you want to oppose or support it at the moment.
Schadrach42 You really need to pay attention to the entirety of the videos if you want to criticize.
He isn’t against removing dead voters from the system. In that video he explained that voter purges will often go in and purge voters who just haven’t voted in the last X number of years. Which is dangerous because just because someone didn’t vote doesn’t mean they are dead.
And he may not talk about issues you mentioned as mail-in ballot issue that might come up because those issue have never happened on a large scale in this country. The worst example of mail-in voter fraud was perpetrated by the GOP in North Carolina.
But Democrats have been courageous enough to continue pushing for mail-in voting to keep their voters safe even though they know there is a chance the GOP might try to defraud the system again, and their complaints sound like they are laying out their playbook.
But as long as vote by mail is funded properly the country will be able to investigate and prosecute anyone caught trying to cheat the system. Which is probably why the GOP is fighting so hard to make sure it does not get the funding needed.
Schadrach42 - Voter fraud and election fraud are two different things. Voter fraud is done by the voters and is what John mentioned in this video, and it’s vanishingly small and everyone is always looking out for it while processing ballots. Election fraud is done by politicians and officials and includes ways to make sure sections of the population can’t vote, which include things like gerrymandering, closing polling places, poll tests, misleading the public about voting procedures, etc.
“Ballot harvesting” is a third party collecting people’s mail ballots to submit on their behalf. Some states make it illegal because who knows what the person who collects the ballots will do with them. Campaigns do it in places where it’s legal in order to drive up turnout. You cite California, where apparently it was made legal recently, and GOP campaigns are on record that they’re upping their own Ballot Harvesting schemes to match the Democrats’. Not sure why the people can’t just stick it in the mail themselves...
@@uspockdad6429
"He isn’t against removing dead voters from the system. In that video he explained that voter purges will often go in and purge voters who just haven’t voted in the last X number of years. Which is dangerous because just because someone didn’t vote doesn’t mean they are dead. "
Except that various databases regarding citizens aren't exactly connected, especially between states. If I go and die in another state, there's a real chance my state won't have a death certificate for me. So by some definitions I'm "not dead." If I move to another district in the same state, there's little the state knows or cares about that (state income taxes the following year and DMV up to 5 years later being the most likely - and it's worth noting that the argument against voter ID laws implies that a lot of folks don't deal with the DMV at all) and even less that the voter rolls do. If I move to another state, the only thing my previous state can be certain of is that I'm not paying taxes there any more.
The NVRA provides a specific procedure for determining a voter is likely either dead or moved and thus can be removed, and requires it as a minimum if there's not more direct evidence of death or moving: You have to miss two consecutive federal elections, be sent a mailer, not respond to that mailer, not update your voter registration, and miss another federal election. At that point you haven't voted in most of a decade and are not responding to mail at your registered address, so it's considered safe for the state to assume that you are no longer a living resident at that address.
"And he may not talk about issues you mentioned as mail-in ballot issue that might come up because those issue have never happened on a large scale in this country. The worst example of mail-in voter fraud was perpetrated by the GOP in North Carolina."
...and in 1810 gerrymandering wasn't an issue. It was something you could look at the system and clearly see as a potential serious flaw, but it wasn't an issue yet so we shouldn't do anything about it. The term "gerrymandering" was coined in 1812, in reference to a specific obviously manipulated district. Even then, it's something that only happened once in one state, so it's not a problem that should be discussed or any move to do anything about it done, right?
The obvious routes to fraud that exist with mail in ballots aren't a "real issue" only because very few places have done large scale mail in ballots, and the few that have aren't exactly states where there's a real threat to the party in power, whatsoever.
@@Tustin2121
"Voter fraud and election fraud are two different things."
A distinction literally only used in this context to be able to avoid talking about the very real security issues with large scale mail in voting, by pretending the issue is individual voters committing multiple crimes for single additional votes..
"“Ballot harvesting” is a third party collecting people’s mail ballots to submit on their behalf. Some states make it illegal because who knows what the person who collects the ballots will do with them."
Hi, soandso. I'm suchandsuch, and I'm here to offer to collect your ballot and deposit it in the mail for you. It's a new thing, just passed last year, and it's only for Democrats. - there's a UA-cam video of a ballot harvester showing up using basically that script. Totes OK, right?
"You cite California, where apparently it was made legal recently, and GOP campaigns are on record that they’re upping their own Ballot Harvesting schemes to match the Democrats’."
They also are on record overtly stating that it feels like cheating, but they're going to do it because it's officially not cheating and it's apparently powerful enough to flip the election.
Does that sound like any other tactic you might be familiar with, perhaps involving Gerry's salamander shaped district?
incredible how he completely called the issues with PA
Except non of it turned out to be a problem.
"Stop playing politics with our lives." That gave me chills.
It's true and it is sickening
Same. It's so true
noafproductions the US’ answer: NO. Never
“Stop playing politics with our lives” well said ma’am.
Oregonian here - we've had vote by mail for nearly 15 years. 15. Years. With next to zero problems. It is convenient. It is comprehensive. It is accessible. It is representative of the people. It is democratic. It is secure.
@first last *Democratic republic
@first last And furthermore. Our Constitution says every citizen has the right to vote. So if you truly agree with our Constitution, then you disagree with not letting citizens vote. This includes felons.
All things ruling conservatives abhor, apparently.
We have it in Washington too. Anyone telling you vote by mail is dangerous just doesn't want you to vote.
@first last We also get a couple weeks to look over and research everything and everyone on the ballot before sending it in.
We also get to look online how our vote was counted to make sure they didn't miscount it. That's a big deal.
Everyone who tries to take democracy out of this country should hang. By the neck. Until dead. Traitors should die. I'll personally buy the rope.
Trump: guys, dont vote by mail
Supporters: ok
*mail in votes are counted last*
Trump: wOaH wHy aM i LoSiNg ???
hE diDn’T lOsE!¡! /s
The worst part is John predicted it
Maybe he thought it was like when you invite someone to a party, and you tell them not to bring anything, but it really means "at least bring a six pack you cheap fuck".
@T H FALSE!
he bankrupted THREE casinos
And he also voted by mail!
"Chernobyl casual" is the best way to describe Corona-fashion rn
Agreed
You're crazy, take this one to the infirmary.
3.6 Roentgen, not great, not casual.
Umm no not even close to accurate
WTF is "corona fashion"?
U.S. military personnel overseas and other overseas USG federal personnel have been voting by mail for YEARS, and none of these people had a problem with it then.
ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear jon
AxxL That might be the random and irrelevant comment I’ve ever seen.
Because Democrats out number Republicans, so Republicans have to resort to voter suppression to stay relevant because after Trump Republicans are going to have a hard time appealing to his base when the day comes and Trump is no longer there for them.
The military has been voting by mail since 1864. republicans love riding the backs of the military all the while whipping the service men and women into subservience.
It’s funny to me how Carlson is either blatantly lying or has no idea what he’s talking about
John feels different this episode, I think he's hit his quarantine stride.
Which means something else is about to happen to scramble things up. 2020's motto is : "Don't get too comfortable"
Yea this is honestly the best episode since quarantine began.
How long in quarantine will it take for us to get a liberal Alex Jones? Oh don't tell me, I don't want that now that I think about it
He didn't have audience laughter and it screwed him up for a while, but now he can make the jokes without the laughter and it flows better.
*Jon
Is it just me or is John getting better without a crowd? His power is growing.
My God. Look at how calmly Tucker Carlson says we haven't had mail in voting for 200 years. Think about how many people saw that.
I can't believe I am able to still be so shocked and horrified by their manipulations but here we are
@@sarahstearns2968 Yeah. I find myself saying, "I'm not shocked - but I'm shocked" at least 4 or 5 times a day
Think about how many times people saw him spew his other radically ignorant opinions
Bowtie carlson is a failure, only accepted by other failed "news journalists" like fox news, which ironically are banned in countries like the UK
Tucker has the most punchable face. No mail in voting for 230 years?!? I guess he has no idea about military members? Didn't he hear his orange god votes by mail?!?
I vote by mail in Florida. It's awesome.
@@molsongrrrl I bet its only going to be a matter of hours before we find out he's voted by mail his entire life lol
Y'all do realize that these episodes are loosely planned out for filming a few weeks in advance, and that even when they decide to change up and do one on the fly, they need more than a few days in order to write, film, edit and get it out? George Floyd, R.I.P., was murdered last Monday (05/25/20), and the riots didn't start until after the news reported the murder and we saw that the officers weren't being arrested and charged. I'm sure that will be the next issue John tackles whenever they come back.
Understandable. I'd also like to hear John talk about the situation in Hong Kong. The Chinese are really exploiting the pandemic to fully takeover there. Found a great analysis on what's happening there and whether we're headed for a new Cold War: ua-cam.com/video/uMm67LHxR7M/v-deo.html
People are mad cause they ain’t got cable he talked about Floyd and the riots for 8 solid minutes before this started.
@@ColoringKaria I wish they'd just upload whole episodes, put ads on and get mkney that way HBO! It's free money, nobody's gonna sub just for Last Week.
The people complaining definitely do not realize that lol
He said on twitter they taped on saturday morning, that's why he didn't talk about the weekend riots
German here, I haven’t voted in person in literal years, mail-in voting is so much easier, 10/10 would recommend
In einem System in dem jeder Wähler automatisch zur Wahl gebeten wird, ist das super. Das funktioniert hier weil wir automatisch im System sind.
Die Amis müssen aber einen so genannten Caucus oder Causus ausfüllen, dafür gehen Leute rum und stellen persönliche Fragen, wie, wohnst du hier, wie viele wohnen hier, Alter etc. Und das machen viele nicht, warum der Regierung was über einen erzählen wenn sie eh nichts für einen tut.
EDIT Census, ich bin mir nun wirklich sicher das es Census heisst XD
I always vote by mail very easy
@@sanSDI bei uns gibt es auch einen Zensus. Aber das Problem ist ja eher, dass man sich in der USA bei jeder Wahl registrieren muss. Oder werden da nochmal die Fragen gestellt?
America is a third world country right now difficult to go to the level of Germany
I'm not an American and we don't have the option to vote by mail. I live in a country where politicians cheat in every conceivable way. I remember when I was young, before we had electronic voting, votes were tallied by hand from the night of the election day to about a month until they release the final tally. Every election, it's a guarantee that electricity would go out for the night. Whether it's a national or local election.
To me, mail-in voting seems like something our corrupt politicians would exploit. How does your country combat this issue?
EDIT: I'm not implying that your elected officials are as corrupt as ours. With all the vote-buying, tampering and even murder, I just can't see mail-in voting being viable in my country.
I worked a polling station in my town, where people distanced on their own, wore masks, used sanitizer, acted with adult behaviour, modelled said behaviour for their children, brought their own pens, and were polite, respectful, and responsible. My town is in Canada, so...
Also... absentee and mail in ballots were ALL counted. No signatures were required.
What town had a recent vote in Canada?
@@oncoucharrest5910 the province of British Columbia
Please keep in mind the postal service will be delivering all of those ballots to homes. We will be overwhelmed if people wait too long to ask for them. Please request absentee ballots early so we dont fall behind like the postal service already has with packages. Just a PSA from a postal worker.
Thank you for being a postal worker & I hope you are also active in your postal union. Times are getting tough for USPS under this clown.
Nice tip. Thanks!
thank you for what you do. and thank you for how much hard work and stress you must go through.
We could always get Amazon to deliver them...
This needs to be on top. Hit those likes!
"We're back tonight at 11:07. Due to the fact that we're producing remotely, we currently have to tape Saturday morning. That's never great, and this week, it's especially not-great. There's obviously a lot more to say than we were able to, and we look forward to saying it soon: - John Oliver on Twitter earlier.
Turbid you truly are everywhere my funhaus brethren
I think it’s best they wait a week before commenting on the protests and riots. That way they will have more information to work with.
Thank you cause I was like voter fraud right now really?
ya i was expecting today's show be about the recent chaos. But hopefully next week's show will be.
@@oGPoLa Friendly reminder that ska came before reggae
Trump's attitude is "If the vote wasn't for me then it was fraudulent."
HAHAHAHA So true
Just like his preferences in protesters.
Rebecca Paige
Ayatollah Trump Ali gave ultimatum again!
If voting would change anything, it would be forbidden.
- Vladimir Putin
@@dagochen hol up
We kinda have to vote by mail in the military if we want our vote to count... and we're government employees
The guy saying "no one under 65 can say they're afraid" is the same genius that said "we might need to let old people just die to let the economy open. I'm ready to die"
I am almost persuaded to reply to him, "Well, get on with the dying, then!"
Well, he should set a good example then.
Someone needs to make a compilation video of all the times and ways John Oliver has ragged on Tucker Carlson. Because I would watch that on repeat all day.
YES please! 😁
Tucker Carlson's empty stares give me headaches
that would be hot
Omg me too! 😂❤👏
"sentient polo mallet"
I didn't even know there was a third Hemsworth. This is big news.
There is also a fourth Hemsworth brother! Larry. He's a pediatric surgeon with severe self esteem issues. 😂😂😂 (watch The Good Place season 3)
He's on HBO's Westworld. Luke. He's aight.
😂
They actually used a Hemsworth brother to play Thor in the play that Loki put on in Thor Ragnarok
This is exactly what I was going to comment. Glad I saw this first -- no one likes a duplicate.
Third Hemsworth is no Hemsworth
The one he is referring to is the fourth one
I love how I can look back at this show and afterwards see how absolutely PROPHETIC you were!!!
Calling Tucker a "human boat shoe" was the laugh I needed today.
tuckers face is so punchable
My boat shoes are offended by this.
British humor? I don’t get the joke
Just looking at Tucker's face makes me laugh.........
@RK SMLMN It sounds like something Biden would call one of his supporters at a rally.
"Dress Code: Chernobyl casual" almost choked me
Hear hear!
"chocked" 😭😂
AMAZING. I LOL'd but in a genuine sense. Actually had to stop it, and replay it... chuckled like a horse.
Good try with English! I believe you meant to say "almost choked me!" A chock (noun) is a wedge placed (chocked - verb) under a wheel to stop it from rolling.
@@TavisAllen Sorry mate, hard to keep up with all the 7 languages I speak :)
“No one has a pencil sharpener.”
The artists are angry, the graphic designers are googling 'what is a pencil?'
Why it's that beefed up, feature heavy, stick I use on my Wacom tablet or iPhone, right?
Fool I own mechanical pencils cause I like sketching before putting it on the computer
Lmao when Oliver talked about pencils I was like “suckerrrr I got mechanical drafting pencils with high quality erasers and eraser refills” 😂😂
I have two pencil sharpeners! One normal obe and obe with the two holes for different pencil thickness.
The drafters have a cup full of mechanical pencils on the desk. "What's a pencil sharpener?"
Watching this while Biden flipped Georgia with those mail-in ballots.. Trump is probably punching the air right now
He was right. It's not like he's saying he doesn't want people voting. He doesn't want people voting by mail because he's guaranteed going to lose that way. Any other way he will win. And as I'm typing this I'm sure 173,000 more ballots with Nov 3 dates in them that all go to Biden will show up at a polling place in North Carolina.
@@luiss.3866 Trump literally said "stop the count" lol
Military personnel all vote by mail while on base. Guess Trump doesn't love the troops after all lmao
@@LisaBeergutHolst the election was over. It doesn't extend until the democrat nominee wins a lead. That's what he meant. Stop accepting late ballots.
@@LisaBeergutHolst Military bases are an exception. They don't really have a choice do they? And trump doesn't love the military is just not true. The only time I can think of is when he had a rally and them the to "clap you stupid basterds" ... oh wait that was slow biden.
I feel like noone kept the quality of his show as unaffected by corona as John Oliver ❤️
I miss the audience and studio though 😕
I vastly prefer shows without studio or laugh-track audiences... I believe most of them augment the audience with tracks anyway. If this pandemic results in the disappearance of the laugh track it will have been worth it.
And by that you mean still no one is laughing
Jk
@@NyanyiC I like sheep to
Voting in Malta:
When you are born, you are given an Identity Number
When you are 18, you are eligible to vote
When there is a vote, you receive your voting document (which has your unique Identity Number on it) at home
On voting day, you go to your polling station with that voting document and vote
Done.
No registration, no fees, no hassle. It's called democracy, America, you should try it sometime.
Many of us would love to, but the powers that be have convinced about half of us that we don't.... Halp, please. 😢
I believe there's a segment on this very issue covered by LWT. The issue is that not all Americans have those Identity Numbers, and, as I understand it, it's quite the issue in America... as weird as it sounds.
Malta is hardly the bulwark of democracy - I mean, could your government be any more corrupt? But even your voting is on par with every other developed nation (and yes that excludes the us)
@ No.
People are against making people go out of their way/pay to vote because both of those are harder to do for poor people.
The thing talked about here happens automatically, hence no barrier to entry.
Incredible how you can miss that honestly.
@ - Weird, to me it sounded like the identity number thing was similar to a SSN....which we already have. Nothing in this comment reads voter id (an additional thing to a ssn/identity number)
John Oliver's shows have remained consistently good since Covid19 broke out
I've had the same thought... Bill Maher, on the other hand, has dived in quality.
I suspect that a big part of that is that a lot of John is not only bearable but in fact a plus, because he's very charming, whereas Bill is only tolerable in small doses, preferably while he is surrounded by other people who are often brighter and more charismatic than he is. (I know Bill is bright, but he's not half as bright (or as infallibly right) as he thinks he is... he also lacks John's winsomely self-deprecating touch. Bill is self-deprecating only slightly more often than DJT.)
@@773SleepyHollow Bill feeds off his audience more than Oliver I think. Bill in his backyard is a little bit... meh. Whereas I don't even notice Oliver's lack of audience anymore. I still watch both though.
Voting by mail has been common and legal for many years for every citizen in Germany. You know, a country with a real, functional democracy. And if bloody works!
Germany does that. Things there either work, or get booted up the rump until they do. If for no other reason than every German learning all about the last two times things didn't work there.
This discussion about voting via mail is just one of these things where I can't understand the USA..
I'm from Germany and voting by mail is completely normal and very easy; you can just apply for it on the City-Website, get it delivered in time fill it out and send it back.
In fact we had the mayor elections in march where the final ballot got held by mail ONLY due to the Coronavirus - everyone got his documents send to home without having to do anything. And nobody complained about fraud or anything. It's just completely normal and accepted here to vote by mail..
It's honestly only an issue here now because the current president is extremely divisive, and the Republican party is afraid that increased voter participation will cause them to lose. They're already building up the BS machine in an effort to disenfranchise voters/as a way of preemptively trying to discrediting the results should they lose.
Ironically the Republicans USED to be big proponents of mail in voting, because older people tend to be more conservative, and mail in voting helped make it easier for the elderly to vote.
Well there are European countries where voting by mail is impossible and which find that the possibility to do so is weird and dangerous. In France, voting by mail has been discarded since 1975, because of the potential for voting fraud.
These days there are people advocating for its return for our municipal elections' second round, but I don't think it's doable and I don't think it's whishable. Not even sure it's constitutionnal. People should vote on the same day, with the same information in hands (or at least the same opportunity to get such information).
That works here because you have to register your household with the local government, along with citizenship information, I believe. The fear in the States is that ballots would be sent to everyone regardless of immigration status.
@@adanflyber6341 Way to go Adan. Weird, dangerous, potential fraud, not doable, not wishable, not sure if constitutional. Spreading vague words around instead of actual arguments. The only point that comes near an argument is that every voter has to have the same level of information at hand. To that I reply: It's never guaranteed that every voter has exactly the same information at hand at any election. And this shouldn't be an issue anyway. In a free democracy you are supposed to vote for anyone you want for any reasons you want. Because you like the colour red more than blue or because you like one name more than the other. That vote is of the exact same value than that of professor whatshisname who has a masters degree in politic science.
@@adanflyber6341 German here, you can request a mail-in ballot and _drop it at the city's electoral office until __18:00__ on election day_ and it'll still be counted. And we have people here who do that every single time.
When you're voting by mail, you might miss out on stuff happening after you sent it back, that might change your mind. But at the same time you have way more time to research the people who are up to election than when you're standing in the booth and seeing their names for the first time.
2016: John declares that he is desperately looking forward to 2020
2020: John fondly remembers the good old days of 2016
This is a whole Mood
@@AWindy94 if youre a soft little baby. Sounding like boomers already
Remember his last episode of 2016 with the musical and fireworks that burned the numbers to a crispy pile of ash?
Imagine how epic this year's last episode will be. I'll breath a sigh of relief
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@@primarchkhas726 it doesn't take much to set you off huh
Gotta love how the "home of the free" is classified as a "flawed democracy" at best and how they think that higher voter turnout is somehow "bad" or "partisan".
João Luis Ramos Tavares lol! Because voter registry hasn’t been cleared and kept up on. They send ballots out to dead people and people who have moved.
@@CC-xf4pz you clearly didn't listen to anyone except trump
@@CC-xf4pz one would think that a technological powerhouse as the USA would be able to cross data between birth and death certificates and voter registration... but apparently they're fresh out of technology due to spying on their own citizens.
@@CC-xf4pz Yeah, but then that's not really "voting by mail is bad", it's "sending ballots out to dead people or to wrong addresses is a waste of paper". That's not a good reason to object to voting by mail in and of itself.
I think this may finally be the time where Americans realise their country is by far not the greatest place on earth.
I've lived in Oregon my whole life. And for over 20 years, we have exclusively voted by mail for every type of election. We don't have such a thing as in person voting. You also are automatically registered to vote when you turn 18 or get a driver's license unless you opt-out.
"If you think you're in any way prepared to bring a working pencil to a polling station, you live in a fantasy world."
As a D&D player, I'm not sure if that was a shout-out or a call-out.
So specific, and yet
*sweats in online campaign*
man, i started playing DnD cus of corona, and now it feels like its everywhere lmao
I write, and use a mechanical pencil a lot, have plenty of HB leads and numerous extra erasers. 🤷♂️
@@elijahkulpinski4983 Yeah, I switched to roll20 for the lockdown and I really have no idea where my pencils are :/
John Oliver is a genius, his staff is brilliant and his delivery is spot on. This bogus vote by mail issue is so completely irrational and he points it out perfectly. Well done!
i agree
I agree too....it's strange an exBrit is educating us on voting!🇺🇲😁
Agreed entirely....this segment illuminated a lot for me. Honestly....I've been out of the loop.
I've been sequestered at home the past 2 and a half months. Then, about 2 weeks ago...I started back at work, in the bookstore I work in.
It's SO good to be back in many many ways. But also...weird. Masks...all sorts of new protocols. It's just a strange time.
And then...tonight, like 50 yards from my apartment, at least 1,000 people were out protesting...90% totally peaceful. 10%...not. At all. On several sides...a small percentage of both cops, protesters, and counter-protesters chanting 'white lives matter' along with blatant obscenities...but shit, it was coming from all sides honestly. It was bizarre...I live in a city of about 70,000. It's medium sized at best...but the scene ALL through downtown Johnson City, TN last night was pretty surreal.I've been so focused on work and getting back to normal...that I kinda forgot, shit aint normal. And may never be? Who knows.
May we live in interesting times indeed....
As a person who grew up in Washington, Oregon, & the military, I've NEVER voted any other way, but by MAIL! It's always worked perfectly! 🤩
I’ve had issues once due to mail thieves. I got another ballot.
@Dosing Psychedelics The oregon secretary of state updates their records every evening during an election. Their records indicate whether someone voted, but not how. So you can easily check up on it. Your concern is invalid.
@Dosing Psychedelics Check your facts. My state offers multiple ways of confirming that my mail-in ballot was received. I received an automatic email confirmation of receipt.
@Dosing Psychedelics - 1) You are wrong. Judicial Watch wanted California to purge 1.5 million registered voters from registration lists. Those on the list had not voted for several election cycles. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/la-county-and-state-to-purge-15-million-inactive-voters-from-rolls/6866/
2) WASHINGTON STATE is one of the all-mail voting states. Election pamphlets are mailed to all adults about four weeks before an election and ballots are received about two weeks later. The pamphlet gives instructions on how to register, when ballots should arrive, how to change your vote after mailing the ballot and how to obtain a replacement ballot if the original is not received. Completed ballots can also be deposited in secure boxes outside courthouses, city halls, or other locations selected by the local jurisdiction. All ballots postmarked by election day (postage paid by the government) or deposited into a ballot box by 8 pm on election day are counted. A completed ballot is placed in a security envelope that is then placed into the postage paid mailing envelope. The person voting must sign and date the envelope before mailing it or placing it in a ballot box. Signatures are compared to the database before the outer envelope is even opened.
2016 ELECTION: There were 3,209,214 votes cast in Washington state. Of those, 74 were flagged for possible voter fraud and sent to local prosecutors, which means the overall rate of suspected voter fraud was .0002 percent. However, only two cases were actually deemed to be fraud by prosecutors (one accused of voting for a deceased person and the other voted twice). Of the remaining 72 flagged voters, 59 were suspected of voting in two states but none did and the other 13 were suspected of voting twice within the state but none did. **Percent of deemed fraud: .00006232055**.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysts-elections-leaders-respond-to-president-trump-s-tweets-about-mail-in-voting/ar-BB14GHWA?ocid=hplocalnews
Signatures are checked on every outside return envelope before they're opened, Wise told KOMO News. A voter's ballot is scanned and tabulated by machines that are not connected to the internet, she said.
@Dosing Psychedelics I like how, when your first 'concern' with mail-in ballots was soundly blown out of the water, you didn't even acknowledge that and just moved on to your next argument against them. It's almost as though you have a different problem with them but you don't want to say so.
I'm just watching this episode now. It's amazing how John predicted so many things that did happen regarding voting by mail.
My family and I live in WA state and have been voting by mail for years. A few years ago, my daughter changed her signature style. She received a letter saying that her latest vote did not count because her signature did not match was was on file. In order to vote in the next election, she had to go to the voting office in person and bring proof of citizenship (birth certificate, passport, etc) to register a new signature. She did that and can now vote again. I don't think voter fraud is a thing here.
That is an impressive thing to catch, all things considered. Good job to Washington state!
I'm glad they at least informed her and I'm happy she took the extra steps to make it right. It's only an issue on Republicans minds and Trump has voted by mail himself!
I had the same problem the first time I voted in Colorado. My signature had changed from when I'd registered in high school to when I turned 18 and they caught it in my very first primary.
(Though my state didn't require me to go in person, they just sent me a letter informing me of what happened along with a form to correct the mistake)
Same happened to me.
Julie W. What about throwing away existing ballots?
This year has been the longest millennium of my life.
Mood
Watching this after everything else that happened today alone, I thought this twitter mail voting thing was months ago
AMEN!! 👍
Let's Bern the whole place down!
Ok zoomer
In Switzerland we've been voting by mail for ages. In fact I've been doing it for 17 years as soon as I got old enough to vote.
I know we are a small country and it's easier and cheaper to put things in place but we trust the system to work because if you say mail can be manipulated then wake up because it's even easier to manipulate a voting software. This channel even did a segment about that exact issue.
Best way to let nazis and stalinist trace you when they come into power. Ha!
@@andredeketeleastutecomplex If people can't trace you at least somewhat, how do you even have a registered voter ID? Yeah in order to participate in democracy, that democracy has to know I exist... your slippery slope is, as usual, pretty dumb.
@@andredeketeleastutecomplex Or maybe just make the envelopes and voting ballots anonymous?
André Deketele 'AstuteComplexTheory' not at all, the votes get counted by the locals so it’s more that every county sends the numbers to the government, not very trackable
The fact that this video didn't give any international comparisons at all is probably my primary pain point with it, even though I agree with the fundamental message.
I thought about the future next episode of Last Week Tonight airing with an audience and the loud applause, and a tear came to my eye. It will be a good time when that finally happens.
“You human boat shoe” is the sickest burn I’ve ever heard
Laughed so loud at that
Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear mays
It’s was brilliantly delivered! I laughed out loud as well.
Fucking epic. Tucker Carlson is one of the nastiest humans on this planet
I don't know, I thought, "At a certain point, hunger outweighs fear" being the motto of Taco Bell was the winrar.
“First you have to know a dead person. That’s hard to do, they’re antisocial” COMEDY GOLD 😂
Kyle Davis no you don’t. The dead person could have lived at your residence at one point. Or in a nursing home... which if you look at the Covid death numbers in dem states, tends to be 40 some odd percent of the deaths because the Dems had a bill to keep and put Covid patients in nursing homes... think about that for a minute.
'Taco Bell: When Hunger Outweighs Fear."
That burn was so good it cooked their food.
Dam, that’s steel melting temperatures.
@samualwatkins Oh, you mean that shit their ground “beef” was filled with, prompting a recall of 2.3 mil lbs of it? 🤣
Hilarious.
The most interesting thing is that he himself voted via mail.
And, additionally, voting machines are much more vulnerable, as was shown here previously.
What a shock that the group that usually benefits from low voter turnout would encourage people to not vote and want to prevent voting by mail... It's almost like they know they're shit and don't want to loose power.
Electoral Boards throw out ballots. That's why they know it can be manipulated because they already manipulate votes.
lose*
The Dem primaries were cheated for Hilary in the last two primaries 😂 but okay
@@paulwinegardener8407 irrelevant.
*almost* 😂
“At a certain point, hunger outweighs fear”
-John Oliver, 2020
That's their plan...
“At a certain point, hunger outweighs fear”
-Taco Bell, 2020
I was honestly thinking the "getting ripped and shredded beef" part would lead to Adam Driver.
Don't worry, he's just pulling another trick on us, pretending to stop for a few weeks just to hit us when we least expect with a full two-minute ode of admiration.
Based on his tone I was expecting him to somehow bring Adam Driver into the pelican bit.
I'm actually a bit disappointed that he didn't bring up AD. 🤣
Me too 😂
I feel let down. lol
It's scary how accurate he was in this video with what's happening.
That "Chernobyl casual" comment had me rolling!!
"Your dress code is Chernobyl casual" -- you kill me, John Oliver!
LOL!!!!!!
You want him to do what to you? :-)
"Human Boatshoe." I LOVE John Oliver's insults.
Ace Everwoode Boat shoes are almost always an indicator of the person wearing them being a douche.
@@chrislehr5812 That's unfair to douches. Douches actually serve a purpose. Boat shoes do not.
@@TheFiddleFaddle fun fact: in high school, i loved boatshoes. im back with converse now though
@@TheFiddleFaddle Boat Shoes serve a purpose if you have a nice boat, but that doesn't necessarily help with the whole "being an in-touch, culturally-relatable human being" situation
My favorite insult: Tucker Carlson... if the word "thud" had a face.
Thank you for what you’re doing with your platform. You’re a better American than a depressingly large segment of Americans.
Sooooooooooooooo will there be "I just pissed off Tucker Carlson!" stickers provided when I vote by mail? Cause if yes, then I'm all in
That would be excellent!
If there is then I’ll buy another set
Yasssssss. I'm with u bro!
oh HELLS YEAH!! I live in Alameda county, CA, we've had "vote by mail" by default for several years, every registered voter gets an absentee ballot. I'm surprised it hasn't spread through the entire state. Here, you can still show up at a polling place if you want to do it in person, but the last several times I went to drop off my ballot, there was nobody there but a couple poll workers who were happy someone actually showed up.
Also, I ordered them LWT stamps, and got an email today that they were delayed because too many people ordered the darn things. Dangit. I want to use them on my tax filings, get to work stamps dot com or whovever is printing and shipping those! I'l have to file an extension if I don't get those within the next two weeks!!!
The RussThuguKKKant hate-mongers have no idea what is coming at them on 11-03-2020. The extinction may not reach all of them... but we are going to flip the script for generations if ever they gain any power back at all.
🕟2️⃣🛑😾🤳🏻🍊🐷😭👶🏻🐓💩🍄🍆🗽🐀👑👉👉👉🚽
"My beef is shredded." He delivered that with a straight face!
Me laughing out loud with earbuds in and my boss walks over.
Switzerland have been voting 2-4 times per year... by mail (even online in a few states)... for free (obviously)... for decades...
We even have (in certain towns) non-swiss citizen (only resident) allowed to vote for local decision
Yeah, that's nice and all, but Switzerland has a measly 8,5 Million inhabitants, whereas in the US it's roughly 39 times more inhabitants (330 Million). It's not that easy.
@@joe7323
Also Switzerland has good public education for all its inhabitants.
@@joe7323 to be fair, voting issues are handled at the state level, not the federal. most of our states have a smaller population than switzerland, or around the same.
@@bjpe8228 Lmao, true, Virginia is basically spot on with Switzerlands Population. But Only this year did our state government condone voting by absentee ballot for any reason at all. (Thank you democrat controlled legislature, governor, attorney general, and literally every other part of Virginia's government for being blue and allowing this to happen finally.)
Sometimes I remember that the past 14 months (and just the past four years in general) have not been normal and I get overwhelmed with realizing how absurd everything is rn
You definitely should start preparing now. Three weeks ago in Poland we tried to do presidential election by mail-voting only. It was rushed so much and guess what, we failed. There was so many difficulties in fair organisation that we were forced to cancel elections 3 days prior, an hour after final debate. Millions of złotys were lost. We will have another shot at the end of June, hopefully better prepared. Learn from our mistakes.
We won't!
But mail voting only. We in Austria always have mail voting in addition. It works fine
America doesn't even learn from its own mistakes, it sure as hell isn't going to learn from POLAND.
Not accurate really. We had it cancelled because we had it, rightly, boycotted by all of the opposition. No one trusted in the government & ruling party that violate all democratic principles. The whole idea was rushed, stupid and unprepared just to assure that current president had all the advantage while other candidates could not campaign due to covid19.
Trump doesn't care about making mail in voting being "safe or secure", he just wants to win and he knows that the less people vote, the better the republicans do. If he cared about democracy, he would be all over making the mail in voting system completely secure so everyone CAN vote from the safety of their homes.
Whenever a politician says it's not the time for something you can be god damn sure it's already long past that time.
7:20 “Stop playing politics with our lives.” Soooooo true
You mean “stop throwing tantrums with our lives”
My favorite photo of the situation in Wisconsin is that one of that guy standing in line (6 feet apart) holding a sign that simply said "THIS IS RIDICULOUS"
“Stop playing politics with our lives”
That line stuck out to me, too
I already vote by mail, but learning that it pisses Tucker Carlson off solidifies my resolves to continue doing so lol
“Stop playing politics with our LIVES”
God bless her. She is right
I too wish they would stop.
Its like asking thieves to stop stealing. YOU have to stop them. Dont just sit around and expect others to save you. You save yourself and if everyone did the same we wouldnt be in this situation being used as toys by both sides for their petty disputes.
Sadly, even the idea of covering your face with a mask has become politicized. Covid-19 doesn't give a damn what side you're on 🙄
Utah-kin2me?
"Your" party? Hahahahahaha!
You are a peon, you are no landlord!
Its like when idiots claim victory when "their team" won a football match. Its not Yours, you are the product!
You dont own anything, the parties are themselves and you just vote them, but they dont even know nor care who you are, they only care for your vote, not for you.
Another option: Get your ballot by mail, fill it out, and then drop it off at your nearest polling place or other designated ballot drop-off location. You can skip the line AND help keep the mail-in system from getting overloaded.
It's pretty telling when some conservative politicians say they don't want more citizens voting because they wouldn't vote for them.
I'd call that unpatriotic and treasonous.
or when democratic politicians say they want non citizens voting because they would vote for them.
@@octaviusaugustus7205 citation needed
@@octaviusaugustus7205 Which politicians exactly do that?
@@octaviusaugustus7205 Non citizens can't vote. In any state.
Why would Non citizens risk being thrown out of the country they worked so hard to get into, just to cast a vote for a politician who may not help their non citizen status?
I live in Washington and have only ever voted by mail. I can’t believe other states are making such a big deal about it.
It's not really the states making the noise. It's our repub "friends", as part of their campaign to disenfranchise voters. Lotsa tricky dickies there.
well its a new thing here in New jersey and alrdy been alot of vote by mail fraud from both sides of the lines.. so he's not wrong.. and at this point im just sick of the government in general .. whether ur Rep or Dem .. they are all assholes
Republicans, Republicans are making a big deal out of it. People tend to become more conservative as they age and older people are the most reliable in person voters. Politicians understand that if voting is made easy and convenient that more young people will take part likely bringing about the end of the Republican party.
@dick stab You mark who you want, and mail it back with the prepaid stamped envelope. It's not that hard, but they are using the pandemic to scare poll workers and public to be in fear and away from voting.
@thomas fraley registering to vote and purging voter rolls are such weird concepts to me as a European. Why are not all citizens eligible to vote? Doesn't your government know about its citizens where they live, whether they are still alive and whether they are citizens? I mean, just for tax collection it seems to me that the government would want to know where their citizens live.
I am registered at my municipality. If I move I have to give them my new address within two weeks. They also know that I am a citizen and therefore eligible to vote, so a month before every election I receive a voter pass that I can use to vote (or to give mandate to someone else to vote in my place if I am not able to vote myself).
At the polling stations they have a list of all voter passes that are invalid because they were lost in the mail, stolen or the person died between the moment the pass was send and the election. In my 12 years as chairwoman at a polling station I only had an invalid card handed in once. The woman didn't try to vote with it. She just wanted to hand it in, because she felt it to be the right thing to do after her father had died.
Voting by mail is standard in Switzerland for many years. No issues at all.
Fortunately you aren’t run by the fire nation
Jessica McDaniel it’s honestly more like America is being run by those water tribe hicks from the episode in the swamp
AJ Farrell wow. That's a little harsh. We prefer the term genetically under served. GTG my sister mom is having my baby.
John Oliver is treasure. He's precious for us.
I'm from Estonia and we've had online voting with digital ID cards since 2005.
That sounds really cool.
Are the digital ID cards unique identifying numbers? Because in America we dont like being identified by the government.
You are also a tiny, homogeneous country of just a couple million people. Things are JUST a little bit easier for you guys to pull of because of that, than for say America.
@@kuttermcneil1520 lmao wut? You don't have a SSN? Driver's license? Passport? School records? Voter registration? Healthcare plan? Address? All of these are already identifying systems. One dedicated to online voting wouldn't be any more risky than anything else we already have.
@@Cooe. that is just a dumb argument that was true in the 19th century. Not anymore, computers don't care about this kind of stuff.
We have the tEcHnOLoGy
John Oliver going OFF on Tucker Carlson is what I needed today.
I never fully understood the term “punchable face” before him.
Ayatollah Trump Ali gave ultimatum again!
That was great wasn't it? Especially with the shitshow everything else is right now.
My parents are DOD civilian. One of the things that makes me laugh is that military service members largely vote by mail in ballots. If the Republicans are saying that mail in are fraudulent and problematic, maybe they should fix it for the service members they say they care so much about. 🤔
(Also, my parents get there “I voted” sticker with their absentee ballot)
It was actually created so that Union soldiers could vote for Lincoln!
@Shawn Mendenall I get your point that the Confederacy wasn't really the United States but just calling the Union the United States wouldn't be "more specific"
It's actually even more egregious, as Military has voting apps too. Meaning they don't even universally use Mail-ins. It's digital for some people.
Our politicians, and lobbyists have really screwed this country with its dysfunction. We should have been spending the last 20 years modernizing our systems. Increasing efficiencies while expanding people's individual liberties and resilience. Instead they bickered and continued to centralize power arguing over incrementally doing the right thing or doing the outdated and dangerous thing.
This is now the second year in a row this country has been set on fire. Last year our undeveloped land was set ablaze due to climate change. This year its starting with riots... which will be in addition to rampant wild fires that have already started for the season. The "This is fine" meme really shouldn't be this on the nose. And yet here we are.
Theres a difference in ppl who r not in the country voting n ppl who r undocumented getting ballots to vote. Pop ur bubble. I have 4 voters in my house n we only got 3 ballots. The last 1 never showed up so im wondering who got it.
Mousey Publishings and then we have these type of people..... is you tin foil hat on correctly?
What a truly prophetic video!
"At a certain point, hunger outweighs fear"
- Taco bell 2020
I'm dead
and your stomach screams "GOD NOOOOO!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
If you vote by mail in Oregon and you need assistance, you're allowed to have someone help you. You just have to indicate that on the ballot. No big deal, happens all the time. Also, they're really strict about the signature thing. You have to sign the outside of the envelope, and my wife's ballot in the last election was rejected because she had been working on her handwriting and forgot to use her old signature. They sent her a card telling her why it had been rejected but they were holding it for her and if she confirmed her identity within a certain period of time (I think it was 2 weeks) they'd count it in the election. She had to submit a new voter registration card with her new signature but had no problem voting in this election. So it's not like people can just forge their way through voter fraud. I'm actually wondering if hers was one of those 54 "possible voter fraud" cases ... lol
It sounds like your from Oregon as well so I’m gonna ask. If your voting for the first time do they compare with the signature on your drivers license? Because my 16 year old self really did my signature dirty, I’m not even sure I’ll be able to replicate that.
Same in Colorado 👍
I love our voting by mail in Oregon. It's so convenient and I feel like I am able to research canidates more thoroughly.
And I had to confirm my signature this time because I was working on my signature as well.
@@j.a.m5083 I think they would go off your registration. If you register through mail that may be the first time they see your signature.
I've had Washington ask me to confirm my signature which I changed in my driver's license and everything. But they probably compared it to my last ballot.
in special compared to this "very safe" voting machines.
Why does this always come out 5 minutes before I go to sleep...
Because you don't have HBO?
Because you don't live in Europe? It's 9am here.
@@MarcKloos jokes on you, I go to sleep at 8:55 a.m.
Lol
Because we just woke up here LOL
Yes I've belatedly discovered a gem in our Mr Oliver. Nobody back here in blighty has a clue who he is, how the hell did I miss that? Brilliant, thanks.
"Who owns a fully functioning pencil?" D&D players. Every single D&D player.
But do you honestly believe a D&D player would risk their pencil for such mundane tasks as casting a vote?
@@itchy-de that is a fact. I guess for my own personal use, I would find it an acceptable risk.
....a No. 2 pencil or a mechanical pencil?
@@Blazer6464 yes. I have both. I mostly use mechanical but the erasers on those are abysmal so I also have a No 2
@@Blazer6464 That's a good shout. All mechanicals, everywhere I see.
HBO Max: The newest business daddy for John to roast.
Roast business daddy is my favorite meat.
ATT owns HBO bud, including Max, that's why they're business daddy.
How the F$%k does anyone get into HBO MAX as anyway? Supposed to have it with my cell plan but no-one is around to fix the logons
@hmm k That's the whole point. It's a product placement without making it look obvious..
I think we need a sticker of Tucker Carleson’s face that says “human boat shoe”
Thank you for helping. We need all the help we can get. Love you. 💕🤓
I totally forgot this fiasco happened this week. It feels like a year ago.
That's Trump presidency. At some point I watched old some old clips and was like "Oh yea, that also happened and only x years/months/weeks ago."
Here's something to think about: Trump has been president for less than four years.
@@IdaSantti Trump is in my opinion one of the most dangerous people for the USA. He deteriorates the election, he destroys the real discussions a republic SHOULD hold, and his past doesn't speak well about him. He is a dangerous man. He's the reason i hate the Republicans.
This week alone is crazy! Did you hear that China is pushing to fully swallow up Hong Kong and if you look at this analysis of the situation we may be heading towards a second Cold War: ua-cam.com/video/uMm67LHxR7M/v-deo.html
@@IdaSantti binge watching LWT I totally agree
“You might as well put me in a tortilla with salsa and lime because my beef is shredded” 🤣🤣🤣
Did you notice he visibly flinched when saying it? Like, that was just one step over the line for him, lol!
“You human boat shoe.” 😄
@@stardust86x I think so ... he might be batting for the other team, too... but we all adore him.
I live in Colorado. When they send the ballot, they also send an "I voted," sticker. :)
That must be a county thing. We haven't ever gotten one.
@@danielwray681 I've only ever gotten one at the drop boxes on voting day
Adams county included one for the DEM primary and local elections this time (It has a triceratops fossil on it) , but I don't remember getting one in the 2016 Presidential or past local elections.
GAKE
@Robin D Owens: Yes and you stick it to your front door, so that the military exactly knows whom to target when Trump trashes democracy... ;-)
This aged well. John is a prophet
Or a leftist mouthpiece reassuring people it's totally legit before mass fraud takes place.
No, Trump is just that stupid and predictable.