• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
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      Anyone who still believes that the U.S. is a democracy should can’t educate themselves, **or be educated by others.

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        I’m afraid you completely misunderstand what dictatorship means. The U.S. has been an oligarchy for a long time, because the citizens have allowed it and continue to do so to this day. Now, as a logical consequence, the screws are being tightened. If there were still one last chance, resistance would be called for right now. But since that isn’t happening, it will come down to what you’re already mistakenly assuming.

        I’m sorry to have to say this, but the current situation is only the beginning.

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    So there is the selection machine that prints a ballot paper, and a scanner that actually counts the vote. If the selection machine does such a shit, you should test the scanner, too.

    And the odd thing is that all reports mention switching of the vote from DEM to REP, but none in the other direction…

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      Literally every time there are “errors” with voting, it’s always somehow in the republicans’ favor. Strange that…

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      It’s possible that the layout of the ballot makes it more likely for the votes to switch in a certain direction. Especially since it sounds like they are using resistive touch screens. If the Republican option was on top and the Democratic option was right beneath it and if people are more likely to hit towards the top of the option, a poorly calibrated touch screen could cause votes to swap (initially selecting the Democrat and then the screen gets confused depending on how the pressure changes as you take your finger off and then selects the Republican above it). These kinds of errors were fairly common when resistive touch screens were the norm.

      Then the technician comes out, hits firmly in the middle of the field, sees no problems, and calls it a user error.

      In Texas, they used a machine with a kind of joystick to select between the options. And those had a tendency of overshooting the center when you let go of it, so the selector would go back up as you were reaching to hit the next screen button. They put incumbents at the top, so it was more common for people to see it swap from Democrat to Republican than the other way around.

      It shouldn’t be acceptable to run elections with machines that have these problems, but there’s no real incentive to fix it.

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      Oh I’m sure we’ll institute such a check after this election cycle and we find out that somehow the scanners were malfunctioning as well. But only after it’s too late to change the outcome.

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    Thank god it will autocorrect my choice to the better suited candidate, the one who bought and cheated the election. I really didn’t want to vote for the lesser evil.

  • jankforlife@lemmy.mlBanned
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    LMBO falling for the theatrics again. “Voting” and “Democracy” were already illusions

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      ass.

      Good job trying to help Republicans though. Nobody knows you’re doing it because you’re so smooth about it. I’m sure you’re some kind of anarcho-socio-communist or something. Yay you.