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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:53 PM Nov 2018

Imagine...that your vote may be counted. (With bonus John Lennon link)

It could happen. After 16 years of easily hackable paperless electronic voting that was supposed to keep the GOP in power forever, we face an election in which national security agencies like the NSA, CIA and FBI may actually get out there and prevent electronic vote manipulation. For 16 years, we have watched as the GOP peeled off Democratic votes and gave them to third party (GOP funded) splitters. We have watched election "miracles"--like a Georgia Republican who was behind almost 10 points in the polls who "won."

"It will never happen!" you insist. "Those agencies all lean right."

Maybe. But they also lean "American" and "Law and Order" and Trump is an outlaw traitor. Plus, Deep Throat was the Pentagon. If the US Military found Nixon's political shenanigans---squandering US lives for political gain--unconscionable, what do they make of the specter of Trump sending US troops into danger so he can get his own 9/11 moment?

Do not stay home because you think that casting a vote in an electronic system without a paper trail is futile. Something tells me that the Georgia Secretary of State is screaming "Hack!" because he knows that the Republican hack of Georgia is about to be un-hacked--and he is planning to try to decertify the election and force a special election as a last ditch effort to hold onto power.


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Imagine...that your vote may be counted. (With bonus John Lennon link) (Original Post) McCamy Taylor Nov 2018 OP
Excellent Post! leftieNanner Nov 2018 #1

leftieNanner

(15,070 posts)
1. Excellent Post!
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:58 PM
Nov 2018

Since we are all aware of the Repug shenanigans - especially with the electronic voting machines, I'm hoping we have an antidote to that. Let's have a fair vote - and see where it leads.

I agree that Kemp will try not to certify the election results. We will probably not know who won this one (and other races as well) for a while. See you in court, Kemp!

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