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> Yes, it's wrong for a candidate who is down in the polls to start screaming "rigged" before a single vote is cast. Democrats were lobbying against secured vo
by Alex3917 10y ago
> Yes, it's wrong for a candidate who is down in the polls to start screaming "rigged" before a single vote is cast.
Democrats were lobbying against secured voting machines and paper ballots for weeks before the election, including on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728167
Even if the election was rigged against the Democrats, it's not like it wasn't completely deserved. You don't get to oppose attempts to prevent election fraud before the election and then complain about election fraud afterwards.
- danso 10y agoI clicked through the link. Where are the examples of HN democrats "lobbying against secured voting machines and paper ballots"? I see HN users decrying Trump's vague self-serving complaints, but nothing against secure voting. Just because I hate sloppy programmers who blindly say that a program is probably going to crash because that's what programs "just do" but it doesn't mean I'm against testing or error handling.
- Alex3917 10y ago> I see HN users decrying Trump's vague self-serving complaints By responding to Trump's accusations by saying that the election wasn't rigged or hackable, Democrats undermined all of the folks who were actually trying to fix these issues. It doesn't matter if Trump said the election was rigged 'for the wrong reasons' or whatever, saying that the election wasn't hackable was absolutely the worst possible response.