The Atlantic: The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election
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The Atlantic Translation: Our Democracy will be destroyed if the GOP so much as wins one more seat in our next election. They must be stopped!!!
Flabbergasting, astonishing and downright shocking.
But maybe that is the virtue of this screed. A lie so big, so outlandish, it has to contain a kernel of truth somewhere.
Whereof comes these tales and deeds of election tampering? A very good engineering blueprint of the effective ways to make it all happen was unveiled in the 2016 election in New York State and California, and some of the other coastal regions. Herself won those venues by exceptional margins, enough so that she could claim to have won the “popular” vote, but lost the Electoral College vote anyway.
This time, the circumstances made it possible to apply many if not all those vote trickster tactics in a sufficient number of states to tip the election in the Electoral College as well as just the “popular” vote.
Just from a general point of view, more votes were COUNTED in this election than there were legal voters that used the voting booth, or the legitimate early voting, or the vote-by-mail procedures already in place and established with adequate safeguards in many states previously. Add to that the curious algorithms used by certain voting machine systems, that seemed to switch votes by some predetermined manner, that permitted the trailing candidate to catch up to and go into the lead as the vote count was nearly complete.