The ousted Republican incumbent Lucy Ebel had previously described Ottawa County as "very conservative."

Republican county commissioner has been unseated in Michigan after losing to her Democratic challenger by 20 percentage points.

Chris Kleinjans won an Ottawa County election on Tuesday with 60 percent of the vote share, while the Republican incumbent Lucy Ebel lost, having received 40 percent.

Michigan is a battleground state that will be key to November’s presidential election. Donald Trump won the county with 61 percent of the vote in 2020.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    63·
    2 months ago

    I think I’ll blame the people who actually have the capability of doing something about it. They could have done this years ago.

    • Clent@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think the phone companies have the power you imagine them to have.

      If the entire global was controlled by a single entity they could stop this but that’s not the reality. There are tons of gateway providers that you have never heard of.

      This is literally the job of the FCC and they are already working on it but it takes time to herd this many cats. The big ones have already done their part.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
        34·
        2 months ago

        Phone companies could easily prevent call spoofing which would make it easy for them to block known scam numbers. They have chosen not to.

        • Clent@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          You didn’t read anything I said or anything in the link.

          You do not understand the problem and willfully do so.

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      There’s just no incentive. The market is going to dictate that carriers allow this to happen.

      It has to be regulated. But “the market” also has its hand in congress’s underpants - the same congress that passes laws, and approves assignments, so only “approved“ people make their way to regulatory positions.