Election systems feared to be vulnerable as Trump administration cuts workers tasked with security

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Election systems feared to be vulnerable as Trump administration cuts workers tasked with security

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Gradually_Adjusting

lemmy.world

Totally normal to claim past elections were fraudulent and then hamstring the departments responsible for election security.

it'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore

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lemmy.world

"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-elon-musk-voting-machine-2017657

Darkard

lemmy.world

Intentional.

Can't be letting the PEOPLE, of all people, vote. They might not vote for the right person.

errer reply

lemmy.world

To be fair, the people didn’t vote for the right person last time and that was a completely free election. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms of government…

some_designer_dude reply

lemmy.world

Well it’s not a Democracy now is it? Elon bought his power. It’s an Oligarchy.

Fedizen reply

lemmy.world

Our democracy was low quality to begin with because of the electoral college creating a two party system. Many countries have things like referendums and proportional voting. Any pushback to trump that isn't fundamentally compromised and shortsighted will campaign on improving democracy. Unfortunately we have the democrats.