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You're straw-manning the comment you're replying to. They're talking about a lack of "safeguards", and you're replying by denying "rampant fraud".
by nickff 4y ago
You're straw-manning the comment you're replying to. They're talking about a lack of "safeguards", and you're replying by denying "rampant fraud".
- cldellow 4y agotralene's comment is talking about safeguards. Their comment was substantive, linked to a WSJ article about deficiencies in elections. The comment 8ytecoder is replying to is the comment by colpabar. Their comment alleges ... some shadowy conspiracy by government, mainstream media and big tech.
- 8ytecoder 4y agoRight. I agree that the US has a lot of blatant deficiencies that they can resolve. Countries all over the world learnt how to do democracy from the US. Many have surpassed them in conducting free and fair elections. US is far behind there. But, like I said, it’s still mostly democratic and that amazes me.
- mrguyorama 4y agoThe main safeguard of the American election system is thousands of seniors who donate their time and patriotism and enthusiasm for the process into making sure things go well. They typically take things very seriously and are rather robust, as the system is designed to bring in party representatives as well as these wise watchdogs. Most important actions have eyes and consent from every involved stakeholder. In some states, is a genuinely impressive example of distributed processing and consensus.
- AustinDev 4y agoThe same folks that need 1/4 inch thick glasses to read 18 point font on a piece if A4 paper?
- colpabar 4y agoYeah, there's never been any conspiracy between those three entities. Whatever you say!
- ethanbond 4y agoThe safeguard is the enormous scale of the U.S. election. Flipping the 2020 election would’ve required 44,000 votes to have been different, and that’s with perfect knowledge of all the other votes that would be coming in.