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Chris Hayes ✔ @chrislhayes
The nightmare scenario, one which is not, to my mind, that remote, is that 2020 is very close and amidst recount/contestation of certain state tallies, evidence emerges of security breaches into the state voting systems, throwing the entire result into a legitimacy black hole.
6:32 PM - Jul 25, 2019
"2020 is very close and amidst recount/contestation of certain state tallies, evidence emerges of security breaches into the state voting systems, throwing the entire result into a legitimacy black hole."
This is happening right here on DU, before a single 2020 vote is cast.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But all the media could analyze were the optics.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I'm sure the framers hoped the First Amendment's "Free Press" stipulation would always be utilized as a true "fifth estate watchdog" of government. But then, news as a profit-arm of media corporations took hold.
I miss Murrow and Cronkite. They seemed to get it.
Me.
(35,454 posts)too busy criticizing the Dems and their failure of a hearing
stillcool
(32,626 posts)that is the big lie, that makes all the other lies possible. Pay the pollsters, keep the media on message....create the perception and you create the reality.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...using 2016 as proof.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...than about dimpled chads. The claims of cyberflipping alone, without proof, could help a losing candidate refute that they actually lost.
...like Trump!
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)an obvious trail. We get chaos followed by a 5-4 Supreme Court "election."
stillcool
(32,626 posts)in our recent history it's ridiculous. If every person who plans to vote, called or wrote the Secretary of State's office in their state, and asked what they were doing to secure their election, and their vote, it might(?) provoke some action. There needs to be a big push to organize, compile information about the fixes needed, and how to implement them. There aren't that many states that still use paperless computerized voting, and as long as there is paper, a vote can be counted. We could demand a random audit of a percentage of the vote in every state. It seems so effing easy, doesn't it?
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)in tRumps favor.
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shanti
(21,675 posts)DU'ers have been talking about this extensively since 2001, with nothing having been done to fix it. Now, when we are in a crisis state, they decide they need to take a look at it. A kid can hack our voting systems with ease and this is ignored? Infuriating!
stillcool
(32,626 posts)isn't it a perfect example of what happens when the GOP decides to fix something?
5starlib
(191 posts)The House counts the Electoral College. They House may not necessarily certify a flawed result, although hell would break loose and it would cause a Constitutional crisis.