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In reply to the discussion: "It increasingly looks like Russian hackers may have affected actual vote totals." [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)There were a few instances of improperly calibrated machines, but no more than usual. There were way FEWER problems with voter registrations at the polls than expected. NC voter protection groups had poll monitors and lawyers everywhere because we anticipated a voter ID law that was invalidated by the courts before election day. If there had been systematic disruption of registrations by outside groups, it would have been noticed.
But they did steal the elections. This is HOW they did it in NC: They ratfucked us when the illegally gerrymander NC General Assembly passed a monster voter suppression law that we had to fight in the courts right until the bitter end. It totally disrupted GOTV planning because we never knew what the law was going to be so we didn't know how to deploy resources or educate our voters. It confused voters who thought they needed ID when they didn't, so many just never showed up. It was a shitshow. We KNOW this already. This is HORRIBLE.
Let me reiterate. An illegally elected majority of state legislators passed racist Jim Crowesque laws to disenfranchise black voters and swing the NC election to Donald Trump. They were aided and abetted by propaganda deployed by crazy-ass billionaire Robert Mercer and a hostile foreign powers. Why do we need to make up stuff? We KNOW this already.