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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Trump is already setting up a narrative wherein the election was "stolen" from him. Which is extremely dangerous rhetoric that has resulted in civil wars in less developed countries. I expect his movement will have a certain degree of staying power, much like the right wing movements that have sprung up in Europe.
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This is one of the points we should stress: candidates who are interested in being a Republic's head of state ought to tone down the "I'll lose because the system hates real Americans" rhetoric. It's almost literally poisonous to a democracy, and is indicative of a candidate more concerned for his image than the duties of the office he allegedly wants.
In apropos of nothing, how do you rig an election? Any election at any level? Especially an U.S election?
This wouldn't work in America, but the usual way people rig elections is to control who runs in them and control the media. Physically rigging an election is an act of desperation - it's much better to rig them invisibly. Look at countries like Russia, Iran, and Turkey. If you never have a true opposition candidate, it doesn't matter how people vote. If you control the media so everybody legitimately likes you due to constant propaganda, you don't even have to go that far.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayEven if you have paper ballots fraud would be difficult to prove.
I've worked several elections and the process goes something like this
1: You have party insiders sit down and physically watch you tally the votes
2: your tally is written in pen
3: call those results in.
4: the poll officer then notes the numbers, gets two witness signatures, boxes up the ballots and then delivers them plus their notebook of the tally to the polling office
5: the small army of people at this office then tally all the district tallys up and phone those to elections canada/ontario. If it's a blowout they'll start posting results within an hour or so of the polls being closed (fun fact: due to some difficulties with my last election they had already called it for the liberals by the time I was going to my car) or if it's close then they physically have to open every box and recount every vote. This can take awhile.
So in this system you'd have to either manufacture a shit tonne of ballots (fun fact: every single ballot needs to be accounted for so if some magically appear that's a shutdown level event) or payoff an entire polling district to not blab about obvious voter fraud.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
In short, voter fraud requires a whole bunch of fraudsters, all on the inside, all with the same objective, and all working in collusion, or else it won't fly.
Which may be possible on a small scale, like a local government or a Third-World country, but not for something with the scope of the US presidential election.
edited 7th Aug '16 8:21:48 PM by pwiegle
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x4 He got launched and went splat on the netting from what I can tell.
edited 7th Aug '16 10:50:42 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.http://www.dailywire.com/news/8148/5-ways-tell-obamas-lying-about-iranian-ransom-aaron-bandle
Anyone know how to defeat this argument? How accurate is it?
Someone got in an FB argument with a friend of mine and they linked this and I want to come in but reading it I'm unsure what to say
You're exactly right about voter fraud, pweigle. It does occur, but pretty much only in local elections where a dozen votes are enough to swing the election, because if you start widening your net too close to the triple digits you're going to attract the attention of state or federal regulators.
Absentee-ballot fraud is the easiest, but it's also easy to catch because it's typically done by taking non-voters and filling out their ballots for them, which means election monitors will notice the sudden spike in absentee ballots compared to previous years (if you average 10% and suddenly it's 15% and all of the new voters are going one way).
The one that Voter ID is meant to catch (if Voter ID were not, itself, really just meant to rig elections for Republicans), in-person impersonation, is nearly impossible on a large scale because you have to typically memorize your victim's signature, and *know* that they haven't voted yet by the time you get there.

Probably something like this:
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