Fake Elections Are The New Normal

“The 30 most Republican districts in Arizona suddenly had printer problems on Election Day”

There’s no need for printers in polling places. Have all ballots pre-printed at a print shop on card stock, and have them sequentially numbered during the printing process.

That’s how we did it in the ‘80s.

Each polling place was assigned a batch of ballots within the numerical sequence. When polls closed, every number had to be accounted for — either voted or returned unvoted.

What’s going on in today’s elections is nonsense. Isn’t technology supposed to make things better (ideally)?

If it’s a GOP district then the GOP people that are involved in the election, because NONE of this stuff happens with just one party present, should be doing their damn jobs. Why didn’t the GOP people test the damn printers.

The problem here is the GOP is worthless. Their candidates are worthless, their appointed officials are worthless, their campaigns are worthless. If the GOP stopped sucking they’d win some damn elections. You don’t need to suppress GOP vote, because the GOP suppresses their own vote by not being worthy of votes. If you cannot see THAT then may God have mercy on your soul.

Who knows.

I do know one thing: It cannot be coincidence that the printer malfunctions ONLY occurred in heavy Republican districts.... and Kathy Hobbs administered this election as it is her role as SOS.

Yup. God has no mercy on your soul. You cannot or will not see these things.

I know one thing: it’s a rumor and simply not true. This is part of the problem with this “it’s rigged” addiction. Problems actually happened ALL OVER, and NOT just in GOP districts. But everybody plays the confirmation bias game. So you’re only listening to reports about problems in GOP districts, and not the rest.
I’m seeing things much more clearly than you Laz. You are, quite simply, drinking the GOP conspiracy excuse mongering kool-aide. Sorry but you’re listening to people that are full of crap, and that makes you full of crap.

Good luck opening your eyes.

About the “steal”.

Democrats and the people they represent look at voting, and elections, differently than we do. They believe we have been stealing elections from them for years.

If you don’t get that they believe this, you can’t begin to address the problem.

This was all very clearly laid out in Al Gore’s two suits before the Florida Supreme Court in December 2000. They were never heard because they were (mistakenly) pre-empted by the Bush v. Gore, one of the worst power grabs by the Court, ever.

This all began in the 1770s when Rousseau began to develop the concept of the General Will. The General Will confers legitimacy on governments, equally on Louis XIV or the Committee of Public Safety. It’s democratic, in the sense that most people have to agree or go along to make it work, but it also believes that the common people, les miserables, are too stupid to use arithmetical counting of votes in their own interest.

Therefore: What makes “democracy” work is 1) Count every vote (ballot paper), 2) Stop voter suppression (harvest ballots), 3) Help people to vote the way they would if they were not stupid (mail in ballots, drop boxes), and if, at the end of the day, there just aren’t enough expanded ballots to install the General Will as the government, well then, a little nudging or fudging to do what the voters WOULD HAVE DONE IF THEY KNEW - This is what democracy looks like.

The winners get away with this because they do not have guilty consciences. They believe in “democracy” (they really do, and so do most elected Republicans). Democracy means helping the voters do what they already want to do, or would do if they knew, or what is in their interest even if they don’t know it.

And, they sort of have a point, even if it is distorted. You don’t REALLY believe all those little old Jewish ladies in Palm Beach County meant for Pat Buchanan to become President, do you?

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