I mean, election fuckery is a time honored American tradition, all over the world. And neither party is above doing vote suppression when it serves their interest.
Add in the fact that the way we do elections is riddled with vulnerabilities, outdated and overly complicated processes-certainly not impossible for fraudulent events and mistakes to happen. Even Last week tonight did a piece on that, so it’s not exactly a secret conspiracy.
The level of voter fraud trumpies are alleging is pretty wild though. The problems with how we vote lend themselves to repressed turnout, suppression of ideas and truths and votes, but it’s so complicated that some vast systemic fraud would be difficult to accomplish without being discovered.
I think what is more important is that the process, for so many reasons, feels illegitimate, to voters across the spectrum. Whether their reasons for that are accurate is less impactful long term than the impact permanent loss of trust will have.
I mean, election fuckery is a time honored American tradition, all over the world. And neither party is above doing vote suppression when it serves their interest.
Add in the fact that the way we do elections is riddled with vulnerabilities, outdated and overly complicated processes-certainly not impossible for fraudulent events and mistakes to happen. Even Last week tonight did a piece on that, so it’s not exactly a secret conspiracy.
The level of voter fraud trumpies are alleging is pretty wild though. The problems with how we vote lend themselves to repressed turnout, suppression of ideas and truths and votes, but it’s so complicated that some vast systemic fraud would be difficult to accomplish without being discovered.
I think what is more important is that the process, for so many reasons, feels illegitimate, to voters across the spectrum. Whether their reasons for that are accurate is less impactful long term than the impact permanent loss of trust will have.
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