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[–] 1 point 8 hours ago*

Election truth alliance found evidence of tabulator machine vote manipulation for the last two presidential elections.

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

They said 2 years ago that the only votes not showing manipulation were mail in votes and that's why trump lost 2020. Because mail in votes were more common due to covid.

They also predicted he would target mail in voting to make sure he could manipulate the vote in the future.

Tabulator machines are the machines that count the votes from multiple voting poll locations.

During the 2024 voting day, 227 bomb threats were made to temporarily shut down polling places.

Additionally, Elon musk and his tech team personally went to swing state polling locations to inspect their machines. Often being left unsupervised.

Election truth alliance not only found evidence of vote tampering but showed how the algorithm was used to manipulate votes.

It switched votes from blue to red up to a specific percentage that would keep the outcome from triggering a recount.

And it deleted blue votes that exceeded that parameter.

This is why Trump won all swing states. Which has never happened. Ever.
And there wasn't a single recount. Also unheard of in a presidential elections.

Election truth alliance also found evidence of vote tampering for senators and representatives.

Allowing trump to have full control in house and Senate.

Again, this is very uncommon for the same party to have all 3.

I suspect many of the Republicans kissed Trump's ass and went along with him on everything was because they knew they didn't win fairly. And promised him loyalty for getting their seats.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    I think it's so they can threaten with ICE at polling places to keep them from voting entirely

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  • [–] 16 points 16 hours ago (10 children)

    So you don't think about whom to vote for before you enter the voting booth? There are all kinds of arguments about voting by mail on both sides, this may be one of the weakest.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    Maybe true for you and I but I'm sure plenty of people are too tired from their day jobs and just vote blue but haven't looked deep enough into the other candidates and you end up with someone like fetterman. If you vote by mail you can dive deep into what each candidate truly fights for.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    If you’re too exhausted from your day job to do meaningful research into the candidates, why would the option of a mail-in ballot make you less exhausted?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (4 children)

    Do you go to the polls with a big set of notes on who all the major and minor candidates you want to vote for are? In Texas they explicitly ban phones in the voting booths. Nominally this is so you don't take pictures of your completed ballot. In reality it's so you can't research candidates while in the voting booth.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    I, personally, don't live in the US and am not a citizen there. Elections in my country are usually just elections to one single office (or assembly), not several at a time.

    But yes, I generally walk into the voting booth knowing how I'm going to vote. If I had trouble remembering this, then yes, I would write it down and take those notes with me. If you think that Texas law you describe is especially bad, then I wonder how you think people voted before smartphones…

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Well in the US, we hold our election in bulk. You'll have dozens of federal, state, even city and county races on the same election day. This is the context of the discussion here. We're talking American politics, not German politics.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes, I know that. Still, if there were more than one election on the ballot, I would do the necessary research before and walk into the voting booth already knowing what I'm going to tick. I wouldn't know why anyone would do it differently.

    (My country is Austria, not Germany, but the same would apply if it were Germany.)

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    I mean, the reason is as given. Many people have difficulty keeping track of the several dozen names/initiatives they want to vote for, in addition to the (purposely, these days) onerous process of voting in person at polling places.

    If we can remove barriers to voting, we absolutely should. If it is a struggle for voters to keep track of everyone and everything on the ballot, and voting by mail helps solve that, then that is a fantastic solution.

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  • [–] 8 points 14 hours ago

    I agree with this. I usually spend a few hours going through vote411, looking at each candidate, and writing down my choices. It's often 30 or more races with 2-4 people on each. Every single time i get to the booth there are items/people that were not on my 'practice ballot' and I'm left guessing.

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  • [–] 13 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    That and much more. Working class people rarely have the time otherwise. Every hurdle disenfranchises voters of little means.

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  • [–] 5 points 14 hours ago* (2 children)

    Inb4 someone says "but you are guaranteed time off"

    Because you get unpaid time off and most people can't afford that time off.

    And politicians know this, too. Just another hurdle.

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  • [–] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    People are getting time off to vote??? Last election I had to go on my lunch break

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago

    What? It gives you less time to think, compared to waiting until the last minute to cast your vote. It's easier to do, meaning more people voting, which probably has more to do with why they don't like it.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    And reduces their time to inject money into media to have it change our minds.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    Republicans don’t want people thinking. They love that maga sonsabitches don’t have the ability to think.

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