The Real Winner in Virginia Last Night - Paper Ballots

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42. This is SO incredibly important

If there's anyone who thinks electronic voting hasn't contributed to a ton of Democratic "losses" over the years, think again.

The machines were developed by Reconstructionist conservatives with all sorts of built-in backdoors and innate vulnerabilities, programmed to never be inspected (because the simple adding of votes is "proprietary," don't you know), with contracts with the states that FORBID any inspection of the code or anything else ever. The lobbyists also persuaded state governments to shorten the time candidates can contest an election after the fact, but no matter: "Recounts" amount to running the machines to merely get the same results spit out. Most don't have any sort of paper trail for manual recounts, but even if they did -- it's child's play to program a machine like that to show one thing on the screen and print it while storing a completely different result. And oh yes, the exit polls are now altered to reflect the "actual" machine results so can no longer used as a warning flag for vote tally manipulation / fraud, as they''re used in all the rest of the world.

I'm so sick of seeing all the handwringing on our side, and the scolding by pundits, and the gloating by opponents, and the WRONG DAMN QUESTIONS being asked when Dems lose elections when I know in my heart they lost.

Think about all the lost elections that ended in Dems being scolded and lectured about getting their act together, coming up with a message - or the right message, and how they have to appeal to (basically) Trump Deplorable when the real problem was the elections were stolen from us. Dems and our message are FINE, or would be, if it weren't for hackable voting machines. The voting machines in concert with all the other anti-American, anti-democratic (small d) efforts (hyper gerrymandering resulting in more Dem votes means the Republican still wins, and intense voter suppression) have given us anything but what the majority of people want.

THE U.S. IS A LIBERAL NATION, and I can show you poll after poll proving that. (Just ask.)