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In reply to the discussion: So many down-ballot candidates outperforming Harris shows ... the fix was in [View all]lapfog_1
(30,285 posts)I am explaining that such a thing as vote cheating is entirely possible.
One part of doing it such that people don't ask for a new election is to not make the vote "outlandish". Read the articles on the Romanian election this last week. Their supreme court is going to decide in the next week if the results should be thrown out and a new election held because a far right candidate that no one even heard of "won" 20 percent of the vote ( more than any other candidate ) and will be in the runoff election against a center right candidate. His stated position is for Romania to leave NATO and leave the EU. And become a friend of Russia. Almost no one in Romania wants to do this. So now there is an investigation as to how the vote was conducted.
Of course in that voting system... if there was cheating, it would be harder to estimate how many votes to flip either at the voting machines or more likely the vote tabulating system. You never want the cheat to be obvious so people start investigating... but you have to end up in top two to make the runoff. This is difficult to estimate. In our election you just need enough to win. Your own Goebbels will take care to claim "mandate" and "landslide" even if the margin is like 1.5 percent. Or to put it another way... "I don't need your votes, I have all the votes I need"
But if everyone wants to believe that the majority of Americans that voted, voted for one of the most hated people IN America, who lost to Joe Biden bu 10M votes... because either a lot of people didn't care this time, or because they fondly remember the chaos, or because Kamala was a black woman, or because they hate trans people or immigrants or whatever... fine. I am just stating that vote cheating IS possible... and undetectable without hand counted and hand tabulated paper ballots. All the way, no machines. And allow that it might be a week or more to know how the vote went.