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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShould we assume that there was NO interference in any of these election results?
It seems that we/someone should at least talk about this, considering the importance of holding the senate and the desperation of Republicans and their propensity for criminal activity.
Comments.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)msongs
(67,347 posts)Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)ZZenith
(4,115 posts)Democrats should be shouting to the rafters about our unverifiable and easily hacked voting systems. That they havent been for the last few decades is one of lifes great mysteries.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)and Ivanka just got a Chinese trademark for her line of voting machines!! No lie.
ZZenith
(4,115 posts)diva77
(7,629 posts)We can't even have simple polling and predictions anymore because election fraud has been normalized. The mentality has been to not raise objections to our voting systems because then people won't vote. Well, people ARE voting and EXPECTING to win; meanwhile, election after election gets stolen.
With climate change as a ticking time bomb, we need to use the momentum from this election to demand paper ballots hand counted at the precinct level with public oversight. You don't need IT people or plugs, or landfills full of useless plastic/heavy metal broken machines. Simply enroll people for counting duty thru the jury pool system and in a precinct of 2000, they will only have to serve a few hours once every few years as vote counters on election night. Dispense with early voting and absentee voting except in special cases. All voting should be done ON election day -- prevents more ways to cheat.
ZZenith
(4,115 posts)Cant possibly do any worse than our current diva and is totally on point with the solution to our electoral woes!
diva77
(7,629 posts)ZZenith
(4,115 posts)budkin
(6,698 posts)Seriously. It turned fast and hard.
interesting.
It was kind of hard to keep up with Kornacke with his board hiccups and others interrupting him to ask specific questions.
Hekate
(90,538 posts)...paper trail for their ballots. All electronic voting is very insecure.
I am concerned at the *apparent* 50/50 split in so many races. What happened to the Blue Wave, much less the Blue Tsunami?
We won the House. That is fantastic. While we have it we should all be working hard to correct the deficiencies I mentioned, and many more. This needs to be a citizen effort, and not left solely to Congress, where the GOP has a vested interest in the status quo (it works for them, after all) and where the Dems are going to be very busy with many many things. Some of our Dem elder statesmen are hard at work on the gerrymandering issue -- they need us in the fight.
imaginary girl
(861 posts)JI7
(89,239 posts)halobeam
(4,873 posts)how can anyone trust anything? I don't know why this wasn't the primary focus on campaigns.. secure the vote from Foreign and Domestic interference.
It's great to have won the house, but what do we do when the presidency is once again stolen? idk, I don't have trust anymore.