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The Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
- 1MachineElf 6y agoAlso discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042047
- pjkundert 6y agoThis is fine. I’m sure everyone would be happy if the “other” side had done exactly this.
- DangitBobby 6y agoIf you had read TFA you would understand that it was a bipartisan effort.
- smitty1e 6y agoOne could argue the actual cardinality on offer.
- DangitBobby 6y agoOne could argue just about anything. I'll reserve my judgement on your argument until after I've heard something other than "I didn't like the outcome so someone did a bad."
- pjkundert 6y agoFocusing a significant fraction of a billion dollars on exactly the jurisdictions required for one side to prevail. Not “bipartisan”.
- DangitBobby 6y agoReally? Do you have any evidence that that happened?
- smitty1e 6y agoBy 'cardinality', I question whether the plurality of 'bipartisan' is more than superficial. The validity of the outcome speaks for itself.
- hprotagonist 6y agoThe handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. Without being glib, this is called "doing your job as a citizen".
- perfectbeeing 6y agoProtect the election from what?
- unanswered 6y agoFrom the wrong lizard winning, of course. (According to Douglas Adams.)
- DangitBobby 6y agoDid you read TFA? I know we're not supposed to ask the question on this site, but the article answers that question quite thoroughly.
- hprotagonist 6y agoe. g., https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/listen-full-audio-trump-s-phone-call-georgia-secretary-state-n1252696 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/listen-full-au...
- underseacables 6y agoThis is horrible. It’s like the media ignoring everything Hillary Clinton ever did because they were “with her” in protecting democracy.
- ardy42 6y ago> This is horrible. It’s like the media ignoring everything Hillary Clinton ever did because they were “with her” in protecting democracy. You think this is horrible? > The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.
- krona 6y agoThey got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They... recruited armies of poll workers... For what possible purpose does one recruit an army of poll workers? I can't imagine.
- sliken 6y agoPoll's need workers, and normally that's mostly older retired volunteers, who would be much more at risk from COVID than younger workers.
- ttt0 6y agoThat's especially interesting considering that they didn't allow poll observers to observe the process.
- Yoric 6y agoI may be wrong, but I seem to remember that this was debunked.
- ttt0 6y agoWhat got debunked? Videos were fake or some mental gymnastics about how it was justified and there was actually nothing wrong with poll observers having to observe the process from behind the barriers 30 feet away? This is what CBS says: > Claim: "In Philadelphia, observers have been kept far away — so far that people are using binoculars to try and see — and there's been tremendous problems caused. They put paper on all of the windows so you can't see in." > Rating: Somewhat true > The Philadelphia Inquirer did photograph an unidentified poll watcher using binoculars while workers can be seen in the background counting ballots inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center. But it's unclear how far away the observer was from the vote-counters, and the photo is dated November 3, Election Day. By the way CBS, great job on your fact-checks. It's not "unclear", there is literally a video of it where it's crystal clear how far away the observers were. "Somewhat" true, jesus christ.