MelancholicMechanicus
Thought Criminal
With the 2020 US Election fast approaching the already chaotic public discourse between left and right has gone into overdrive. The BLM shithsow, the politicization of Covid, the increasing derangement of the Anti-Trump crowd, the economical instability... I would venture to say last time a election year in the USA was so chaotic was in 1932. There are already threads to talk about most of these problems however I wanna talk about one that may just be the biggest one here: Election Fraud.
In 2016 the Democrats made all sorts of claims that Trump would refuse to accept the results of the election and how he was a danger to democracy. These claim then backfired harder than the Zimmerman telegram as the Dems absolutely refused to accept that Trump had won, blaming russian hackers for the debacle for moths before moving on to claim Trump himself had been a plant by Russia and all. However the truth is Trump's win was made possible only by his voters showing up to vote and the electoral college working like planned to make sure big population centers would not hog the election. But 2020 may no be so.
Thanks to the Wuhan Flu there has been a movement for mail-in voting, a practice that has some history in the USA but has never really been used in such a huge scale. Not only that, this also comes at a time where the radicals have taken over the Democratic party discourse with the openly Marxist BLM putting their weight behind them. Antifa also is there and they are ready for war (as long as daddy Establishment is there to help them by holding the police on a leash and giving them a wide berth to act as the see fit as one can see from the CHAZ debacle). What is there to stop them from stealing this election?
The answer is: nothing. Thanks to old Jim Crow laws voter ID laws have been long a taboo topic in the USA where they are equated to poll taxing, despite the fact that they are not the same thing. Any attempt to introduce it is met with calls of "But poor voters can't afford it!" "Blacks and other minorities don't have the documents!" and such despite the fact that places like India, Brazil and Mexico all have them and no problem making sure the voters get them (In Brazil, for example, the government sends voting machines by canoe up rivers so remote native villages can vote every election). So what is stopping the USA from doing so? The democrats, obviously. And a bunch of weak spineless neocons, don't forget them.
Which brings me to 2020. The push for mailed in voting offers a untaped potential for voting fraud that has never been so easy. Here are just some of the ways it can happen:
- Voting ballots getting "lost" in transit
- "Volunteers" that are collecting the mailed votes losing them
- Pressure from family/friends/social circle when writing in in a less than private setting
- Voting on behalf of family
- Voting for the dead
- Voting by non-citizens
- Submitting multiple votes per voter
- "Officials" deciding the signature on the voting ballot does not match the one in file and throwing it out as fraudulent
And more. Of course the authorities insist this is a small issue and voter fraud is "nearly non-existant" but since it is so easy and they barely seem to be on the lookout for it how the fuck can they claim that? The awnser is they can't. It's a lie, this is a problem and it will get much worse this year. Which bring me to the final point: Scale.
You do not need a massive fucking campaign to swing a election in the USA. In 2016 Trump won Nebraska's 2nd district by about 6 thousand votes, Michigan by 11 thousand, Alaska by some 3 thousand... It can be a death by a thousand cuts: with a little as half a percent of votes being "mishandled" the damage to the final electoral count can be made absolutely massive and ensure a win. And you can bet the same people crying about Russian Interference won't give a damn this time.
Which brings me to the final point: How to stop it? How can one make sure the election is not stolen and the we do not get a senile old man being held by the neck like a puppet as the 46th president of the USA to pretty much bury the country? I don't know, I really don't. I am just watching from afar and absolutely dreading November. I don't wanna see the USA fall from grace, because as bad as they can be I would rather them than fucking China calling the shots in the international stage. The best way would be to simply vote. Not just for yourself, but to really go out of your way to take part in it. Become a volunteer, offer to help friends and family, be on the watch to call out any foul play you see, really get people to go out and try and hold off. Because if the dems win there is a big chance of them unleashing a beast they think they can control and sinking the entire country into disaster.
Sources: 1 2 3 4 5
In 2016 the Democrats made all sorts of claims that Trump would refuse to accept the results of the election and how he was a danger to democracy. These claim then backfired harder than the Zimmerman telegram as the Dems absolutely refused to accept that Trump had won, blaming russian hackers for the debacle for moths before moving on to claim Trump himself had been a plant by Russia and all. However the truth is Trump's win was made possible only by his voters showing up to vote and the electoral college working like planned to make sure big population centers would not hog the election. But 2020 may no be so.
Thanks to the Wuhan Flu there has been a movement for mail-in voting, a practice that has some history in the USA but has never really been used in such a huge scale. Not only that, this also comes at a time where the radicals have taken over the Democratic party discourse with the openly Marxist BLM putting their weight behind them. Antifa also is there and they are ready for war (as long as daddy Establishment is there to help them by holding the police on a leash and giving them a wide berth to act as the see fit as one can see from the CHAZ debacle). What is there to stop them from stealing this election?
The answer is: nothing. Thanks to old Jim Crow laws voter ID laws have been long a taboo topic in the USA where they are equated to poll taxing, despite the fact that they are not the same thing. Any attempt to introduce it is met with calls of "But poor voters can't afford it!" "Blacks and other minorities don't have the documents!" and such despite the fact that places like India, Brazil and Mexico all have them and no problem making sure the voters get them (In Brazil, for example, the government sends voting machines by canoe up rivers so remote native villages can vote every election). So what is stopping the USA from doing so? The democrats, obviously. And a bunch of weak spineless neocons, don't forget them.
Which brings me to 2020. The push for mailed in voting offers a untaped potential for voting fraud that has never been so easy. Here are just some of the ways it can happen:
- Voting ballots getting "lost" in transit
- "Volunteers" that are collecting the mailed votes losing them
- Pressure from family/friends/social circle when writing in in a less than private setting
- Voting on behalf of family
- Voting for the dead
- Voting by non-citizens
- Submitting multiple votes per voter
- "Officials" deciding the signature on the voting ballot does not match the one in file and throwing it out as fraudulent
And more. Of course the authorities insist this is a small issue and voter fraud is "nearly non-existant" but since it is so easy and they barely seem to be on the lookout for it how the fuck can they claim that? The awnser is they can't. It's a lie, this is a problem and it will get much worse this year. Which bring me to the final point: Scale.
You do not need a massive fucking campaign to swing a election in the USA. In 2016 Trump won Nebraska's 2nd district by about 6 thousand votes, Michigan by 11 thousand, Alaska by some 3 thousand... It can be a death by a thousand cuts: with a little as half a percent of votes being "mishandled" the damage to the final electoral count can be made absolutely massive and ensure a win. And you can bet the same people crying about Russian Interference won't give a damn this time.
Which brings me to the final point: How to stop it? How can one make sure the election is not stolen and the we do not get a senile old man being held by the neck like a puppet as the 46th president of the USA to pretty much bury the country? I don't know, I really don't. I am just watching from afar and absolutely dreading November. I don't wanna see the USA fall from grace, because as bad as they can be I would rather them than fucking China calling the shots in the international stage. The best way would be to simply vote. Not just for yourself, but to really go out of your way to take part in it. Become a volunteer, offer to help friends and family, be on the watch to call out any foul play you see, really get people to go out and try and hold off. Because if the dems win there is a big chance of them unleashing a beast they think they can control and sinking the entire country into disaster.
Sources: 1 2 3 4 5