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Idk about the whole US, but I do know about North Carolina as I was an observer at a polling place during that election. I spoke to the wonderful person running the polling place. North Carolina has paper ballots that go through machines. After the election they take a random sample of those ballots and check for major variances. They then check AGAIN a few weeks later. If either turns up major differences they do an automatic full recount. I'd imagine most states have something similar.
While I don't want our current political situation, we have it. These types of articles offer little proof. But what they do is undermine the voting system even more. For them to have rigged the NC election, there would have had to been a massive conspiracy campaign. Someone would have seen somethig and come forward.
Again I WISH this were true. But until there's actuy evidence, and not some random substack article, we let these assholes do what they do and we stand up at election time and do better.
I've been actively contacting my representatives. They of course don't answer, like when I asked them for a comment on a member of their party openly quoting Josef Goebels, or they spin the question. I expected as much, but I'm doing what I can.
Currently it's either going to get worse or better. I wish it will get better, but I'm more confident it's going to get far worse first.
Thank you! I have only seen this mentioned in Reddit posts and Substack articles, and definitely feels like an op to undermine trust in the voting system. Targeting an audience that wasn't wrapped up in the 2020 campaign to undermine the voting system.. eyerolls all the way down. The people in place are like electors, delegates, and state secretaries, where the power is de-registering people, throwing out whole locations of ballots, refusing to certify counted results, and many other ways to make voting painful. But not necessarily messing with individual ballots, except where they have armies of people to review any questionable ballots but those are reviewed by reps from both parties in that scenario, I think? Mostly remember the Nevada episode of Veep on that last point