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Melon

(1,879 posts) Sun Jun 7, 2026, 12:54 PM Jun 7

Are we to the point that Americans don't believe our elections are secure

From both sides. There were endless threads on DU and now all over the news on the California voting process. Are we to the point where here the integrity of our voting system is so compromised it doesn’t work? What’s the fix?

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Are we to the point that Americans don't believe our elections are secure (Original Post) Melon Jun 7 OP

CBS and Trump? pwb Jun 7 #1

I just saw that one as well. Not drilled down to one interview or person. This is every presidential election Melon Jun 7 #2

this is not a presidential election. (hoping that you just misspoke?) stopdiggin Jun 7 #6

Neither side ever wants to believe that they lost ITAL Jun 7 #3

We have been at that point since Bush V Gore. enough Jun 7 #4

No we are not. "to the point where the integrity of our voting system is so compromised it doesn't work?" stopdiggin Jun 7 #5

Sure Black Box Voting, Diebold machines switching votes.... BlueTsunami2018 Jun 7 #7

pwb

(12,824 posts)

1. CBS and Trump?

Reply to Melon (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 12:56 PM

Jun 7

Consider the source.

Melon

(1,879 posts)

2. I just saw that one as well. Not drilled down to one interview or person. This is every presidential election

Reply to pwb (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 01:00 PM

Jun 7

And I’ve been seeing stuff for this one for days. This is a wider issue that is not going away.

stopdiggin

(15,838 posts)

6. this is not a presidential election. (hoping that you just misspoke?)

Reply to Melon (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 01:15 PM

Jun 7

And California will be just fine thank you.
(Not to say that there aren't people out there who will not, nor ever will be, satisfied with anything that happens in California! Ever! But that's a really quite a different thing. Right? )

ITAL

(1,434 posts)

3. Neither side ever wants to believe that they lost

Reply to Melon (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 01:02 PM

Jun 7

This isn't bothsiderism, though I expect I'll get that from folks here. But seriously, it doesn't matter the election anymore...Republicans always believe that it's rigged when they lose and we always say they stole it when we do.

enough

(13,806 posts)

4. We have been at that point since Bush V Gore.

Reply to Melon (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 01:02 PM

Jun 7

stopdiggin

(15,838 posts)

5. No we are not. "to the point where the integrity of our voting system is so compromised it doesn't work?"

Reply to Melon (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 01:09 PM

Jun 7

Last edited Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:06 PM - Edit history (1)

By a long, long shot.
What we DO have is plenty of people (both the nefarious, and those extremely gullible) who are more than willing to chicken little themselves, and others, into a big state. We call them dupes. And they serve the interests of those that don't have the slightest interest in either elections, or integrity.

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BlueTsunami2018

(5,135 posts)

7. Sure Black Box Voting, Diebold machines switching votes....

Reply to Melon (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 02:34 PM

Jun 7

This has been around the entire time I’ve been on this site from 2003. It’s not novel.

Hell, the 1960 election was widely believed to have been stolen in Chicago by ballot box stuffing. Which may very well have been the case.

When Piss says the whole system is rigged he’s not really wrong. He’s just not right in the way he approaches the subject.

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