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>I think you're off your rocker if you think the US election system generally has sufficient controls in place not to be easily abused. It is easily abused, co
by minikites 6y ago
>I think you're off your rocker if you think the US election system generally has sufficient controls in place not to be easily abused.
It is easily abused, conservatives are only mad when they lose:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-acknowledge-leveraging-voter-id-laws-for-political-gain.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno...
> A senior vice president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, Steve Baas, had a thought. “Do we need to start messaging ‘widespread reports of election fraud’ so we are positively set up for the recount regardless of the final number?” he wrote in an email on April 6 to conservative strategists. “I obviously think we should.”
> Scott Jensen, a Republican political tactician and former speaker of the State Assembly, responded within minutes. “Yes. Anything fishy should be highlighted,” he wrote. “Stories should be solicited by talk radio hosts.”
From 2016. Weird how familiar it sounds.