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Urban Hermit's avatar

Trump must corrupt the midterms to keep Republicans in control of the House and Senate to complete his authoritarian takeover and protect himself and his cronies. He has no moral limits and will do anything, legal or illegal, to achieve his goals. Expect the unexpected. Imagine the unimaginable.

There are two vectors Trump can use to corrupt the midterms. The first is voter suppression. This has received a lot of attention. It includes things like gerrymandering, purging voter rolls, banning mail-in ballots, reducing the number of early voting days, reducing polling places to make wait lines intolerably long etc. Many prominent election attorneys and public interest groups are fighting these in court and they receive a lot of press coverage.

But there is a second, more insidious method Trump may employ to corrupt the midterms. That is to manipulate the vote count. We use election software to scan ballots and tabulate votes. It can be written to flip votes in close votes in select races to favor the desired candidate. Few people other than those who write the code and computer security experts either understand or can detect its use. The only way to combat it is to either turn out in such overwhelming numbers to vote Democratic or to challenge improbable Republican wins by demanding recounts.

Election Truth Alliance and Smart Elections have been trying to expose the possibility that corrupt election software has been in play, but have received no attention from mainstream media and little attention elsewhere. Nor have any election authorities cooperated by investigating their election software or security protocols. Here us a compendium of election vulnerabilities Election Truth Alliance has compiled;

https://electiontruthalliance.substack.com/p/election-security-threats-and-vulnerabilities?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=18auiy

Lee Sonderman's avatar

Why didn’t NATO members call him out when he started spewing lies?

Rebel's avatar

Dementia, dementia, dementia! For god’s sakes will Congress wait until he gets more people killed and puts our country and Americans in danger before they open their spineless cowardly mouths and remove him or just stay silent and impotent?!

Congress you work for the people not for yourselves! Do you god damn job. Blood is in your hands already! How much more do you need?!

Tami2cents's avatar

Imagine being amongst these foreign leaders while listening to such a cringeworthy spectacle, as they try to convince themselves that what they were witnessing was indeed real. Twilight Zone episodes had more plausibility.

JayTay's avatar

If the 24th amendment wasn't crafted for this, then what was it for ? There are no words America, no words.

MaliAnne's avatar

Once again, spot on Heather!

Pamela Payne's avatar

Trumpet is the poster child for onset of dementia. Just the right guy to represent America in world affairs. <s>

Edward Truncale's avatar

The cracks in the armor are ever widening. Trump's audible brain farts are impossible to ignore. Well, except by the people dressed in red, white and blue clown suits at the Great American State Farce. If you ever wonder how people can believe in Trump you just have to listen to his impassioned disciples. The earth is flat, we did not go to the moon and somehow with Trump in charge of everything there is still a deep state.

There is a movement, and not a new movement, taking hold on the far right. Sovereign Citizens that do not have to abide by the laws of the country or state because the country is a for profit corporation and legally they don't have to follow the rules.

Add that to the 4000 white nationals that paraded through DC and rode the train and buses (so they couldn't be tracked, they are so smart and sneaky). DC is now a giant coliseum filled with lunatics and wackos. And that's just Congress and the Supreme Court. When you add in Trumps weak minded minions it is a frightening sight to behold. I'm not too worried, I live in the Garden State and according to singer song writer John Gorka:

I'm from New Jersey

I don't expect too much

If the world ended today

I would adjust

I would adjust

I would adjust..........

Chris Smith/Larry, from O'Hare's avatar

luv it, thank you, yea, they're simply terrible people.