Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The clock is ticking — there is only one more hour before the polls close in California. Haven’t voted yet? There’s still time! Remember: if you’re in line at your polling location by 8 p.m., you will be able to vote. #StayInLine
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A reminder that long lines at the polls are a sign not of a healthy democracy, but of insufficient funding for polling locations that makes it harder to vote, especially if your job isn’t flexible.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
California: Polls are open for 90 more minutes. If you have not voted yet, look at the television, realize that the stakes just doubled, and GO. VOTE.
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It can't possibly take this long. California Elections code 15501(b) and 15503 require the results to be available 38 days after the election. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f…
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Pennsylvania results in this US House election shouldn't be described as pickups/losses for a given seat, since the seats are all on new (court-imposed) boundaries relative to the previous election. And the new/old district numbers are mostly unrelated, too.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
BREAKING: Florida just passed Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to 1.4 million people with a past felony conviction. Not only does this repeal one of the country’s worst Jim Crow laws, it’s also the largest expansion in voting rights since the Voting Rights Act.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It's here! The biennial @DKElections poll closing times map is back!
The map you see here is in Eastern time, but we have versions for every U.S. timezone at the link: dkel.ec/2OdZPy5
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Didn't register to vote & feeling weird about it? IT'S NOT TOO LATE! California is one of the few states that allows for same-day voter registration.
In SF? Run to City Hall
Elsewhere in CA? Find nearest spot here: caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/
Go, file your reg, & cast your ballot!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There’s currently an organized bot effort to discourage people from voting. Among their “arguments” is that voting machines are all “rigged”.
Hogwash.
I’m one of the computer scientists who discovered these voting system problems. And I vote, because it matters. So should you.
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Why I'm voting NO on California's Proposition 10: medium.com/@ldavidbaron/mixe…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Also every state should pass a law so that the Secretary of State cannot oversee an election for which they are a candidate.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Voters are waiting for hours—particularly in heavily African American precincts. bit.ly/2QpJWH0
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On the other hand, I detest the use of train numbers. It's the mark of a world where trains are infrequent enough that you should know which is which. If only we had a system worthy of the RER's 4-letter codes...
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In the Caltrain world, it seems more typical to refer to the trains by number... and there really is no train #404. (Did they switch to a different set of weekend numbers when they switched to 90 minute headways?)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This study explains so much of the dynamic we've seen in Congress over the past decade. washingtonpost.com/business/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If Republicans have a good night on Tuesday and think they won the midterm on the basis of immigration/xenophobia/race-baiting, just imagine how much Trump is going to turn the dial up in 2020.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Letter to President Trump from Pittsburgh Jewish Leaders bendthearc.us/open_letter_to…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
‘He is not welcome here’: Thousands support Pittsburgh Jewish leaders calling on Trump to ‘denounce white nationalism’ via @_allysonchiu wapo.st/2qi1Q2S
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This tweet, from the House GOP Majority Leader, was deleted after being up for 17 hours: projects.propublica.org/poli…
According to Politwoops, it's the first non-RT he's deleted in *months*. He knows what he's doing here.
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