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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP "has now lost the popular vote in seven of the past eight elections."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214454894 Thanx to DUer Ehrnst for posting this info.So please don't tell us that we don't reflect the views of "real America."
BKDem
(1,733 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)This would not be the case.
We are a diverse society & certainly not all super wealthy.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Think about that when they start turning back the clock on the last 50 years of social progress.
if..fish..had..wings
(662 posts)(2020 as of 9 am 11/5/2020)
Botany
(70,504 posts)He was bleeding support from his base big time.
Budi
(15,325 posts)There's a reason Trump did everything to stop mail-in ballots.
Just sayin.
That year, my brother, who does stuff for DARPA, told me, "give me a cell phone and a laptop, and I'll make any one of those machines give you any result you want, connected to the internet or not."
There was some REALLY funny stuff going on, especially in 2002 and 2004 with those things. E.g. the machine that gave Bush 3000 votes in an Ohio precinct that had 600 registered voters.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Would be interesting to run 2022 & 2024 on paper ballots only.
Imagine the # of people a handcount process would employ too.
If just a couple of key States needed to win the electoral can be electronically adjusted by just enough votes, then the voting machines need to go.
DFW
(54,378 posts)I think random testing of them might have put the fear of a long federal sentence into some of the manufacturers, but "surprise Republican upsets" in close races still seem to be the norm rather than the exception. When the pollsters get it wrong, unexpected results still seem to always favor the Republican.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)if got rid of that pesty Electoral College and based our elections on the popular vote this would be the outcome
PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN JR.
Budi
(15,325 posts)To me, that is the biggest threat to our US election process.
Count ballots by hand if it takes the full 10 days allowed by law.