The proliferation of early voting and absentee voting has definitely compromised election security in more ways than one.
Yesterday at 10 am I had to stand in heavy winds and rain/snow mix outdoors at 36f in a crowd of a couple hundred people that took 90 minutes to vote, because the state's early voting system is far more complex and restrictive than voting on election day, multiplied by being available at a small fraction of the voting sites. People in line joked they should just hold it at the MN fairgrounds and sell pronto pups while we wait. So what we'll see is a whole bunch of people stuck in abnormally long lines for USA standards, and on top of discouraging voters you get overwhelmed officials turning people away. And of course mail in ballots being destroyed or lost or tampered with, mailed in fraudulently, no way to expose it, unknowable amounts of rigging.

a lot of these are solvable problems, but the damage is from the rapid change provoked by covid and embraced by democrats to stick around even when covid isn't prohibitive. A few years ago in my state you needed a good excuse to vote on any time but election day itself, and the election day operation was thoroughly streamlined

In recent years, a pattern has emerged in political discourse where claims of election interference often come from the very individuals or groups most invested in maintaining control over outcomes. This phenomenon, commonly referred to as “projection,” sees accusations of fraud or tampering leveled at political opponents as a smokescreen for their own potential misconduct. Donald Trump, currently leading in many polls, has been a frequent target of these accusations. It raises a pointed question about what measures the "establishment" might take to prevent his victory, even if that means bending or breaking rules that are supposed to guarantee a fair election. This tension suggests that those accusing Trump of undermining democratic norms might, in reality, be the ones who would go to extreme lengths to protect their own positions of power.

while some might call this a conspiracy theory, the facts re: hunter bidens laptop, etc. speak for themselves. as does US foreign policy and methodology re: election tampering. If these groups are able to sway a vote by as much as 5% then that may be enough to achieve their goals.

the US politically system needs a neutral body to to start enforcing the law irrespective of party, related to hate speech as well as jail time for those that are undermining the political process. it is way way out of control. blinken should be jailed for life for what he did to donald trump re: getting signatories to claim the hunter laptop story was fake. the ppl that signed that document should be given jail terms. shit like that has to stop because otherwise the US is going to royally screwed long term of that stuff continues.

This post was edited by ferdia on Nov 1 2024 04:39pm

1) Relentlessly malign Trump in the media - failed
2) Relentlessly persecute Trump, trying to throw him in jail and bankrupt him - failed
3) Attempt to murder him - failed
4) Direct election tampering is the only thing left and they are guaranteed to go this route because of 1) to 3) above

A great many of these people, the 51 + Blinken as you mentioned, including Garland + many more need to be jailed for life for any hope of restoring public confidence in the government and judicial system

my god i had so many typo's in that. eek.

This post was edited by ferdia on Nov 1 2024 05:39pm

2014 called they want their sick burns back. Go ahead, report me again, snowflake

Lol this is the one thing shitlib humans-who-belong-in-mental-asylums always say when they’re losing an argument. Glorious. Thanks gnarjay.

The lone A hole in the video gets picked on because his non-explicit satire hat triggered one of the Home Depot poll workers. Weird

Careful what you wear on election day. Might be intimidating

Wow

So far pretty smooth sailing for election day, fingers crossed
Lots of minor incidents of no particular importance. Phony low effort bomb threats in a few places but that's literally nothing. A few arrests for people threatening folks at polling places
I like the description of this one;
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/11/man-threatening-to-kill-trump-conservatives-arrested-in-ann-arbor.html



tracks with my stereotype

Your country have some really sick individuals.