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Comment by rcpt

5 months ago

The election is our nation's most sacred element. If it turns out that the party in power manipulated the results at all then, yes, there will be pitchforks.

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specialist  5 months ago

Yes but: Gore v Bush

Aside: As you likely already know, Voter Action proved in court that Kerry won New Mexico. As in "got more votes" than Bush.

They chose NM, to make their point about electronic voting, because NM's electoral votes (alone) wouldn't change the outcome.

The chicanery in other states was much more blatant. eg Ohio. Alas, that lawsuit was abruptly ended when all the evidence was destroyed, despite the court ordered retention. (IIRC, that plantiff was Green Party candidate Codd.)

So it goes.

  • rcpt  5 months ago

    Somehow people are 100% ok with the right-wing ratfucking which has become typical.

    But the current accusations are a completely different level.

    • specialist  5 months ago

      Andrew Gumbel's theory is that since "the left" obviously cheats (despite lack of evidence), "the right" feels justified in cheating harder.

      There's probably some truth to that theory.

      Steal This Vote [2005] https://www.amazon.com/Steal-This-Vote-Elections-Democracy/d...

      More likely is that "the right" believes any "the left" victory is intrinsically illegitimate. So ratfucking is necessary to correct any "aberation".

      Even more likely, for a while now, "the right" is simply anti-democratic and is purely animated by their will to power. Therefore, rules are for suckers.