Local elections are the ones that really matter.

Wait this thread is no good. I voted yes cause of the topic title of the poll. But the poll question in the thread can have a opposite answer..

"Is the elections rigged"
Some at least attempt to rig it. Some cheating for sure occurs, the question is rather how much and in what ways rather than if

"Does voting matter"
It's a completely different question..

This post was edited by TidsL on Dec 6 2023 01:34am

Yes, it is clearly a rigged system if you've been following for at least 1 election cycle.

These are not in a particular order, but rigged system vulnerabilities in the US that are blatantly obvious.

- Pay to win voting allowed - mass doner funds can be spent on mass advertising and solicitation of voter base
- Voting machines used that are not manufactured in the USA or have their source code available for audit. These are black box machines if they are not transparent in their engineering.
- Lot of human processes related to counting the vote which slow and introduce error margin in the accuracy of the final count.
- The Red and Blue party pre-pick nominees. When Bernie had a chance, he got the axe by the DNC Debbie and Clinton. Reds tried to thwart Trump, but had to embrace him once he took the base.
- Electoral college not always bound to vote inline with their constituents.
- Vice President positions can be filled by some of the worst qualified and worst supported candidates. Kamala Harris had lowest support among her own party during debates with other candidates like Tulsi, now she second in line to run US.
- 2019 hysteria lead to all sorts of accommodation and alterations to voting processes across US jurisdictions which has raised concern about fraud votes.
- Debate polling percentage are deliberate to force out third party voices. Why you only see Red v Blue on 95% of debate stages?

https://www.ktbs.com/news/judge-orders-new-caddo-sheriffs-election-whitehorn-appeals/article_673d6fb2-938d-11ee-815b-77dfd7b11232.html

The election for sheriff in Caddo Parish has become a significant example in the effects of voter fraud, after the election was decided by 1 vote when at least 11 votes were proven to be cast fraudulently
As it turns out, there was simply little to no safeguard to stop people from voting twice in the same election, by voting both in-person and by mail-in ballot, as well as several by illegal voters
As such a judge has overturned the results as invalid and ordered a new election
And meanwhile in presidential elections....?

It depends on your definition of "rigged"

Are elections rigged by a political party tampering with votes, destroying votes, etc.? Probably not.

Are elections rigged by a political party illegally colluding with media to suppress information that is damaging to them? Absolutely.

The Democrat primaries (2 most recent) were so self-evidently rigged against Bernie. He legitimately won the primary both times, he was rejected by the DNC since he's a populist outsider.

The RNC tried to do the same against Trump, but failed because he had overwhelming support from the Republican voterbase, more so than Bernie.

Of course they're rigged.
But the award should rightly go to the DEMS for the massive rig, in 2020.

I enjoy the concourse thus far, continue promptly.

Primaries, congressional & senatorial elections are probably very important.

**Admitted it after losing a lawsuit for $787 MILLION dollars.

Sorry, bud... The election WASN'T stolen. That must be so hard for you to swallow.