• FE80@lemmy.world
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    Both GW Bush in 2000, and Trump in 2016, lost the popular vote yet won the electoral college. They went on to appoint the conservative majority to the Supreme Court. The system has already been subverted with no meaningful attempts at reform.

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    Yeah, this election is gonna be stolen for sure… And guess what, Muricans will do nothing about it. They will throw their hands in the air and say “well, I tried”.

    They already should have done something when their brain dead / brainwashed compatriots elected a CHILD-RAPING FELON, but nope. Sure, he was (possibly) “fairly” elected, that doesn’t mean you can’t show your “dissatisfaction” for it.

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    I read a story yesterday about Dolly Parton’s sister and a few others saying they watched their votes for a democrat switch to the republican candidate before their eyes. She said she had to try it 3 times before it registered the correct vote. Though I have no more information than that I find this extremely troubling knowing with certainty that Trump and his enablers are completely willing to do this and worse in order to stay in power. Pay very close attention when you’re voting.

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      That isn’t really what is at risk, that’s just a MAGA poll worker deliberately sabotaging the touch screen calibration. It might be an attempt at election theft, but what Trump is seeking to do is much more covert and you won’t even notice it. They will try to see if and where they can flip the tallies and mess with the paper trail if there is any, and that’s only on one of the levels he will be trying to steal the midterms.

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    Don’t they have voting machines every year at DEFCON?

    I feel like this is already been litigated.

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    Independent testing of voting machines and open sourcing the vulnerabilities in order to get them patched, is a good idea.

    Unfortunately, we all know what the Trump Regime actually intends to do: Keep the vulnerabilities in their pocket, and use them to secure “victories”.

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        Yeah i agree. It’s a search for a half-truth they can base an argument on, but classify enough info around it to make it difficult to challenge or investigate.

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    Go for it, they will choose the most inexperienced losers and it will blow up in their face. Like the doctored Epstein footage with the movie maker marks

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    It’s totally fine though. Since no one in America has the balls to do anything about it- it’s legal.

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        The land of the once free and somewhat brave, but it was quite a lag time ago.

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        They’re the elephant that was tied to a stake as a baby

        They have accepted their fate and are resigned to being fucked over

        So they hate the people around them, rather than the cunts who put in the stake

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    Can’t wait for stories like this to suddenly just disappear in November when Republicans somehow - miraculously! - barely squeek out enough votes to secure key races at the very las second.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      And somehow, the polls will all be wrong and we’ll all scratch our heads how that happened.

      Must be because Republicans don’t answer pollsters! 🙃

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      Lol… With this administration? They’ll probably just report that they recieved 10x whatever the other party gets and brag about how big America must be to get more votes than citizens.

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          ?? Which lines are you implying? It’s blaringly obvious what the goal is, I was merely remarking at the incompetence of the current administration and likelihood of them doing it very badly.