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Roisin Ni Fiachra

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11. With regard to most Republicans, "election integrity" means making it as difficult as possible
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 07:46 AM
Dec 2020

for Democrats, especially POC, to vote.

With what we've witnessed in Trump's, (and his fascist allies), seditious attempts to override the will of the people, and use courts to appoint him POTUS, it is clear that from now on the fascists will infinitely litigate every presidential election they lose, and many down ballot races they lose as well. Integrity means absolutely nothing to them, as is made self evident by their current continuing ludicrous challenges to what election officials have called the cleanest, most transparent presidential election ever.

They are currently, through their incessant litigation, making folks afraid to use mail in ballots in the future, in an effort to force voters to vote in person from now on, because they can control in person voting to their advantage by limiting the number of polling places in Democratic leaning areas. This is something they currently do wherever and whenever possible, as a matter of policy.

To the fascists, election integrity means suppressing the Democratic vote to the maximum degree possible, in order to ensure that fascists win everywhere that it is possible to significantly suppress the Democratic vote.

Personally, I would prefer that we scrap all electronic voting devices, and use hand counted paper ballots in all elections, hand delivered at the polls, or delivered to county election officials by mail. That makes it as difficult as possible for the fascists to suppress the vote by maliciously limiting the number of polling places in Democratic leaning areas.

If fascists can cheat, they will cheat. What they are doing to our democracy right at this moment is utterly disgraceful, and we need to somehow fix this over the course of next four years, or the fascists will continue to litigate ad nauseum every election they lose by a relatively close margin from here to eternity.


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