I wonder if his actions managed to change the outcome of any election.
Would he get bribed if they didn't?
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#12European countries and Canada could finish counting ballots in a day. All paper records. US had to take days, and any questioning into the process is labeled, of course, racism and right wing. It must be because the US is so advanced and progressive. It's a shame, I guess, that the damn European countries or our neighbor can't follow our lead.
Plenty of progressives have been against electronic voting machines from the beginning. What we're calling right-wing people out on is only caring about it when their candidate loses, and calling the previous election where they won "the most secure in history".
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#13> payments ranging from between $300 to $5,000 per election
Surprisingly affordable relative to today’s campaign budgets.
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Passing it would be seen as an admission by one side that this kinda stuff happens often enough to warrant it.
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How many occurred?
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They say /voter/ fraud never happens; this is /election/ fraud.
Er, isn't it the other way around? Voter fraud is just individuals cheating on a small scale like "helping" grandma with her mail-in ballot, but election fraud entails broad schemes and conspiracies like the DOJ article describes.
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#17European countries and Canada could finish counting ballots in a day. All paper records. US had to take days, and any questioning into the process is labeled, of course, racism and right wing. It must be because the US is so advanced and progressive. It's a shame, I guess, that the damn European countries or our neighbor can't follow our lead.
Plenty of progressives have been against electronic voting machines from the beginning. What we're calling right-wing people out on is only caring about it when their candidate loses, and calling the previous election where they won "the most secure in history".
I don't understand the us v them mentality. I have lots of right wing friends and family and many of them have been against electronic voting from the beginning. For example, in my home state of oregon, many right wingers are against vote by mail and have been since oregon became the first state to go fully vote by mail. These issues are not so binary as you're making them out to be, and I think everyone would do well to put aside partisan differences to come together on issues where they can agree.
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#18I knew this had to be about either Philly or Chicago without even clicking the link. And of course I was right.
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#19> payments ranging from between $300 to $5,000 per election Surprisingly affordable relative to today’s campaign budgets.
Everything is cheaper when you get it at just the right point of the supply chain.
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#20European countries and Canada could finish counting ballots in a day. All paper records. US had to take days, and any questioning into the process is labeled, of course, racism and right wing. It must be because the US is so advanced and progressive. It's a shame, I guess, that the damn European countries or our neighbor can't follow our lead.
Plenty of progressives have been against electronic voting machines from the beginning. What we're calling right-wing people out on is only caring about it when their candidate loses, and calling the previous election where they won "the most secure in history".
It's not just about electronic voting machines, at all.