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In reply to the discussion: If it comes out that Russia stole the election for trump and all of the other illegal [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)And what does "flipped" mean anyway?
I guess we'll find out one way or another, but the night is young.
But we don't have to limit the potential badnesses to any one issue. Maybe no vote was "flipped" (and we don't know yet), but election fraud doesn't always involve meddling with voting machines. Funneling money or labor into a campaign can also be an act of fraud. For example, a robocall helpfully telling voters where to go to vote, and giving the wrong address or date, or promising to pick the voter up to take them to the polls, and never showing up-- those are pretty common low-tech frauds, as are postcard pretending to be from the election board and telling the recipient his registration was revoked.
Not to mention the billboards in Democratic areas with dire warnings that voting is criminal in some way (if your signature doesn't match, you could be arrested, and so on. Or falsely alleging that you can't vote if you've been arrested, etc.
And those are all low-tech ways. Who knows what the hackers are up to. Clinton won many more votes, but in a few states, we don't know how votes were suppressed or manipulated, whether actual fraud was involved.