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I’m shocked people still believe elections aren’t cheated and rigged.
Elections in the United States are not rigged. Go volunteer to work an election to see for yourself. Everything is tracked and there are eyes watching everything. In fact mail-in /drop box voting is the most secure form of voting in the United States. In person voting is the least secure.
Except in situations where volunteers aren’t allowed to watch because windows are blocked, or we have drop boxes. Or dead people voting
Do show evidence of any large scale issue of dead people voting. I think we'd all love to see it.
It isn’t my responsibility to educate you. If you have no desire to seek out truth that’s your own choice
You're the one making absurd claims, so back them up. Oh yeah, you don't have any sources.
That's not how it works, not even close. The Election certification process is very transparent and done so in front of the public.
So you’ve never participated in the administration of an election. Ok.
That's funny, Republican senators are shocked that many of their constituents actually believe the rigged/cheated/denialism nonsense!
Republican senators say they are alarmed at how many Republicans, including those with higher levels of education and income, buy the unsubstantiated claims that the last presidential election was stolen.
A second Republican senator who spoke with The Hill said the growing strength of radical populism “makes it a lot more difficult to govern, it makes it difficult to talk to constituents.”
“There are people who surprise me — I’m surprised they have those views. It’s amazing to me the number of people, the kind of people who think the election was stolen,” the lawmaker said. “I don’t want to use this word but it’s not just a ‘red-neck’ thing. It’s people in business, the president of a bank, a doctor.”
They aren’t unsubstantiated claims lol
Lol. You do understand that you are living in a mass psychotic delusion engineered by very wealthy and powerful people who are using you and your equally delusional peers to destroy what’s left of our republic to safeguard their huge accumulating piles of loot from an equitable tax system, right?
Let's see some actual proof then, you anti-american magat.
There’s an entire internet of knowledge and I have a million people on here messaging me. If only I had the time to sit down with each person I would, but I don’t.
Do your own research and challenge your beliefs
Lol don't bother, we've all seen the debunked bullshit that you reality deniers try to push.
It's sad how detached you are from the real world, all because a fascist lying pig told you so.
You don’t know anything of what I believe or what my sources are.
I already know everything I need to know about you.
Touch grass, I’m sure you desperately need it.
I do know what you believe by the propaganda you parroted. You believe the ABSOLUTE LIE that trump and the other enemies of the United States have told you about our elections.
You support tearing down democracy and installing fascist dictators. You'll have to go through the MAJORITY of Americans first.
Touch reality.
k thx bai
Most of that belief stems from the notion that those who believe otherwise haven't been able to produce one single shred of evidence otherwise.
I'm shocked there are still fascist-aligned people like you who actually believe that absolute lie whilst still remembering to breath from your mouth.
If you are referring to the gerrymandering and voter suppression championed by conservatives, yes, they are rigged.
Elections here are not cheated, and only sort of rigged.
They're not cheated because there are dedicated people at every level of government making sure that they are fair. And also because they are all administrated at the local and state level. Even the Presidential election is really a weighted sum of 50 separate state elections plus DC.
Officials that are elected (like the Secretary of State) did not get elected because they agreed with Donald Trump, and are not likely to throw away their political careers in the state on a lie. That doesn't mean they're not partisan, but it does mean they are not obligated to go along with this stuff just because Trump says so. After all, if they say the election wasn't fair aren't they really saying they suck at their job?
I can't imagine why Trump thought he would get Republican state legislatures on board to nullify the election, while many of those same people won races in that election. Would they vote to invalidate their own job?
On the other hand, the two-party system we have discourages competition, and if you look at the rules regarding how the parties pick their candidates, it's rife with cronyism. The Democrats even have their "superdelegates" whose job it is to tip the scales towards the party's preferred candidate. The fact that they haven't had to do that in the last few election cycles only means they've been able to get their preferred choice through before that. You can make a genuine argument that primaries are rigged by design. But at least the rules for that rigging are out in the open, and not at all secret.
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