• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Changing voting laws is absolutely how the GOP is trying to rig elections. That’s not a mystery or even in doubt. It’s the people that are claiming voting machines were rigged that are preaching the big lie 2.0.

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        6 days ago

        Changing voting laws is absolutely how the GOP is trying to rig elections.

        Changing laws is, like 1 of 30 different ways the GOP is trying to rig elections.

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            6 days ago
            • Gerrymandering

            • Fake electors

            • Being suspiciously cozy with the business owners of voting machine companies

            • Voter intimidation by posting ICE/CBP at polls

            • Voter intimidation by stochastic terrorism using their most rabid followers

            • Closing polling places in liberal areas to cause longer lines at the few remaining locations

            • New voter ID laws, including that one that could disenfranchise anyone who has ever changed their name (especially married women and trans people)

            • Trying to make voting by mail illegal

            • Trying to invalidate mail-in votes by any means possible

            • Calling election officials and asking them to “”“find”“” just enough votes to change the outcome

            • Trying to cancel the election entirely due to some “emergency” bullshit (despite the US never having canceled a single election in its entire history, including during the Civil War)

            • Chanting to stop the count when they’re ahead, and chanting to keep counting when they’re behind

            • Filing dozens of (failed) court cases in attempts to overturn election results

            …to name a few.

            Maybe I was being hyperbolic with “30”. Maybe. We’re at 14 now. I bet if you dig deep enough, you can find at least 30 ways the GOP is trying to rig elections.

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              6 days ago
              • Gerrymandering doesn’t help with national elections like the presidential election

              • Fake electors is legit, but didn’t get used

              • Suspicion isn’t evidence

              • ICE wasn’t at the polls for 2024 that I’m aware of

              I don’t feel the need to continue as your list seems mostly speculative of future elections and not relevant to the 2024 election.

              Edit: I do want to be clear that most of these are very valid concerns for future elections. Just not when discussing Harris losing.