Also notable from the awards was 3 Goblins Games. They won business of the year and they've only been open about 1.5 years! That's a downtown success story if ever there was one. That business has single handedly brought me downtown far more than any other, not close.
Rustad: " ...it’s clear that mistakes like these severely undermine public trust in our electoral process."
While misplacing an electoral polling box is a problem (I mean, I was like, "what?? Don't they have a checklist or something to make sure they got all the boxes?"), I am going with Elections BC and human error, learning from it and ensuring there are improvements to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. I mean, this is why we have the recounts and judicial counts: to make sure all the votes are counted.
However, I think it is the era of rage politics thanks to our monkey brains leaning into emotions and negativity, (un)intentional algorithms on the socials that monetize for these negative clicks, influencers taking advantage of those algorithms, and foreign (and internal) state actors funding some (much?) of it in backhanded and illegal ways, that cast so much more doubt in what has been a rigorous, resilient electoral process for decades.
(also, sarcastic thanks to certain folks in the US of A for just proving this point)
Rustad is scum and has the moral fibre of a rotten 2x4, but he's not wrong here. In this sort of heated environment, these kind of basic mistakes provide a lot of fuel to the conspiracists and need to be crushed immediately...often with deeply, open reviews.
while I personally try not to call names (attack the ideas, not the person... I really try to live it but it is SO hard sometimes), I pretty much wrote a long winded comment that your comment sums up nicely, Bob.
Also notable from the awards was 3 Goblins Games. They won business of the year and they've only been open about 1.5 years! That's a downtown success story if ever there was one. That business has single handedly brought me downtown far more than any other, not close.
Rustad: " ...it’s clear that mistakes like these severely undermine public trust in our electoral process."
While misplacing an electoral polling box is a problem (I mean, I was like, "what?? Don't they have a checklist or something to make sure they got all the boxes?"), I am going with Elections BC and human error, learning from it and ensuring there are improvements to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. I mean, this is why we have the recounts and judicial counts: to make sure all the votes are counted.
However, I think it is the era of rage politics thanks to our monkey brains leaning into emotions and negativity, (un)intentional algorithms on the socials that monetize for these negative clicks, influencers taking advantage of those algorithms, and foreign (and internal) state actors funding some (much?) of it in backhanded and illegal ways, that cast so much more doubt in what has been a rigorous, resilient electoral process for decades.
(also, sarcastic thanks to certain folks in the US of A for just proving this point)
Rustad is scum and has the moral fibre of a rotten 2x4, but he's not wrong here. In this sort of heated environment, these kind of basic mistakes provide a lot of fuel to the conspiracists and need to be crushed immediately...often with deeply, open reviews.
while I personally try not to call names (attack the ideas, not the person... I really try to live it but it is SO hard sometimes), I pretty much wrote a long winded comment that your comment sums up nicely, Bob.