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elleng

(136,055 posts)
1. True.
Wed Jan 4, 2017, 02:35 PM
Jan 2017

Dem 'leadership,' and all of us, have done little/nothing to CURE this. We probably haven't had clean elections since ? when? and none foreseeable in our sad future.

brush

(57,495 posts)
2. Combating repug cheating and fixing or ditching the EC should be our main focus as a party
Wed Jan 4, 2017, 02:52 PM
Jan 2017

We know how to raise funds, Bernie's and Hillary's campaigns both did that effectively.

It should be easy to adapt that online programming knowledge to to raise money to get this issue "bigly" in front of the American people.

Give the public the facts on the cheating and how twice since 2000 the candidate with the most votes did not win because of the unfair weighting of EC votes favoring sparsely populated states, and of course the repug cheating/dirty tricks — Crosscheck program that scrubs AA, Latino and other POC-sounding names off voting rolls, not counting provisional ballots foisted quite often onto POC voters, broken voting machines not fixed in AA areas, easily hacked voting machines with no paper trail, caging, closing polling places in minority areas, shutting down early voting, voter ID laws — let's make a HUGE ISSUE of all the sketchy tactics in the repug arsenal to steal elections.

And let's not let up on it through to the 2018 elections. Let's make Congress, and the complicit MSM have to deal with the issue of stolen elections.

The postmortems of "it was Hillary's fault/Bernie's fault have to stop now.

We know what we're up against. The election was lost to repug cheating which we haven't addressed. We need to NOW.

 

zonkers

(5,865 posts)
3. Cheating would not be tolerated in sports, the workplace, the school yard, paying your taxes....
Wed Jan 4, 2017, 07:28 PM
Jan 2017

It is a big mistake to let it go unpunished. A mistake for the fabric of society and its well being.

 

JCanete

(5,272 posts)
4. what the hell were we fighting about in the other thread again? Totally agree with you here. nt
Wed Jan 4, 2017, 08:39 PM
Jan 2017

brush

(57,495 posts)
5. Good. We're on the same page here. I just don't believe in coddling people dumb enough, or ...
Wed Jan 4, 2017, 08:48 PM
Jan 2017

racist or uncaring enough to vote for trump.

Crunchy Frog

(26,977 posts)
6. Our party needed to begin addressing it right after the 2000 election theft.
Thu Jan 5, 2017, 12:47 PM
Jan 2017

They really dropped the ball on this one, and by now it may be way, way too late. But yeah, they better fucking start taking it seriously now, even though they're 16 years late.

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