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  • for having recorded during a plenary session an interaction between a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the administration without their consent

    Well, obviously, they are going to act to protect themselves. I don’t know the specifics of these cases, but these are public figures during a public session that was being recorded and the EU parliament makes those recordings publicly available. I don’t think there should be an expectation of privacy there. If you want a private conversation do it someplace else.

    the President had decided to impose a penalty on Leila Chaibi for having recorded herself

    Well, that makes the headline misleading. She was filming herself, I assume she had her own consent.








  • This conversation is about the advantages of mail-in ballots. Being able to research ballots ahead of time is not an advantage of mail-in ballots. In either case, you can have the ballot in front of you (either a sample ballot or a real ballot) and you are able take all the time you need to do your researching.

    For someone to say that being able to research ballots ahead of time is an advantage of mail-in ballots suggests that there are people showing up polling places and realizing that they have no idea how they want to vote, resulting in them having to frantically research the issues and candidates on their phones at the polling booth or fill it out without being well informed. And that is worrying.