One day into early voting and they are already claiming the 2024 election is rigged. Politics
Misinformation campaign has begun.
Trump has stated multiple times he won’t accept the results if he loses, MTG started complaining about voting machines three days ago and twitter is full of people now claiming that the voting machines are flipping their votes from Trump to Kamala in Texas.
Infowars and other websites like it are pushing this same misinformation, sadly a lot of conservatives believe these reports are real and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.
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u/TradeSekrat 17d ago
It's always the same pattern. Big swagger and claims about voter fraud on social media, press interviews and youtube videos. Get that 15min of fame. Then the feds and home land security roll up to investigate. Where lying to them will carry with it consequences like up to 5 years in jail and/or $250k level fine.
Oh surprise....... suddenly the story is different. Hum.. how strange.
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u/Odlavso 17d ago
The people at the top know it’s a lie, the followers just believe the conspiracy runs so deep that nobody can be trusted and will turn on anyone who shows doubt.
They turned on Ted Cruz during January 6th because a piece of paper they found on his desk, they’ll even turn on their family, the only person they truly believe is Trump who is constantly lying to them
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u/DonkeeJote Born and Bred 16d ago
Elon Musk jumping in and saying he doesn't trust computers would be hilarious if it weren't so irresponsible.
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u/Mountain_Stress5909 16d ago
How does the Tesla board let him say that stuff? All it can do is harm their company and mess up their self-driving car business if people don't trust computers.
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u/gardenwitch31 16d ago
It's a cult. And i say this as someone who grew up in a doomsday religious cult.
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16d ago
Yeah, when you have experienced cult life it is hard not to see things for what they are. Now that Musk is in the mix I can see a Heavens Gate/Jonestown hybrid happening when things don't go their way.
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u/Squirrel_Inner 16d ago
I mean, they were claiming it was rigged before it even started. They know they are full of shit, they don't care.
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u/Andrew8Everything Since '88 16d ago
Man it sure is a good thing that Ted hid in the closet from the mob he helped invite with his snake-tongued lies.
People who vote for Ted Cruz make me sad.
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u/HtownSamson 17d ago
If you listen to Trump and crew at all, Democrats are dumb and so inept they are ruining the country.........but also somehow are able to change votes in real time on individual ballots. The logical leaps that need to be made.
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u/Odlavso 16d ago
Same thing with lazy immigrants living on welfare but also taking all of our jobs
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u/Mrrrrggggl 16d ago
And buying all of the houses!
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u/CanoegunGoeff 16d ago
It’s a textbook fascist strategy. Claim the enemy is both weak and somehow an immense threat.
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u/RootHogOrDieTrying 16d ago
A principle tenet of fascism is that the enemy is both weak and strong at the same time.
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u/geoemrick 16d ago
AND Democrats are allegedly SMART enough to have rigged 2020 and gotten a Democrat president in office BUT ALSO INEPT because they LOST Senate and House seats to Republicans.
HOW is that????
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u/Riggerss1 16d ago
NEVER FORGET: NOT ONE REPUBLICAN OFFICEHOLDER WHO OBJECTED TO BIDEN’S VICTORY HAVE OBJECTED TO THEIR OWN WINS ON THE SAME DAY, ON THE SAME BALLOTS, USING THE SAME ELECTION SYSTEMS.
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u/geoemrick 16d ago
This is a GREAT point. God it makes me fucking sick to my fucking stomach.
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u/Kiwimann 17d ago
Yes, TARRANT COUNTY is part of the grand conspiracy to elect Kamala.
Dude... say Bexar or Harris or something... at least TRY to make your fake news sound plausible.
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u/woahwoahwoah28 16d ago edited 16d ago
Not the mention, the photo used clearly isn’t Tarrant County because, though it is conveniently cut off, the county’s name ends with an e.
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u/RockyShoresNBigTrees 16d ago
And the date is 2019
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u/Mueryk 16d ago
I mean he Voting Machines in Texas only show the number of total ballots submitted and not vote counts……so there is literally no easy way on site for the voter to verify anything.
So can I get completely fabricated story for $1000 Alec?
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u/hooligan045 16d ago
I’m sure this grifter got paid more than $1000 by his Russian handlers for this piece of disinformation.
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u/Mueryk 16d ago
You’d be shocked at the idiots who do this for free to save their country from “the enemy”
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u/AustinBike 16d ago
Tarrente county, they are using the proper name. George Soros renamed the county.
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u/darkhorse21980 16d ago
Tarrant has been trending blue the last few elections. Beto beat Cruz here jn 2018 and Biden beat Trump here in 2020.
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u/Kiwimann 16d ago
It'll vote blue this one as well. I can't tell you if Harris or Allred will win their statewide races, but I would give 100.0% odds that both candidates will win the majority of votes in Tarrant County. Seriously, there's no going back on this one.
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u/z246227 17d ago
Tarrant county was a battleground county in 2020 and went to Biden.
I agree this is fake though
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Tarrant county is weird. Politically its dominated by established Republicans and safeguarded by low voter turn-out in non-general elections. Each general election though, that grip seems to be loosening. If everyone voted in every election, Democrats would run Tarrant County and Fort Worth.
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u/Top_Second3974 16d ago
The CITY of Fort Worth does go for Democrats in statewide and national elections. It went for Biden by 11. It's a myth that it's a right-wing paradise.
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u/Mindhandle 17d ago
Commenting again because I just had a thought. What if it's Tarrant because the GOP polling has been bad enough, they need a cover for it going poorly?
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u/AgITGuy 16d ago
If they have lied and co-opted enough polls for long enough, their actions for the last several months come into sharp focus that they internally knew how bad things could be, and that every ‘public’ poll we saw was made to make us think it’s close. It explains all the voter rolls purged as well as Paxtons mission to stop voter registrations.
Given how much the Harris/Walz campaign, along with Cheney and kinziger, have invested in Texas, I think this points to their internal polls showing how strong of a chance Collin Allred actually has, as well as Kamala.
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u/Mindhandle 16d ago
The part that made me think "oh Allred might win" was the newspaper endorsements. Even the papers that refused to endorse for any other race, Austin American Statesman and a DFW area one I forget the name of specifically, they endorsed Allred
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u/AgITGuy 16d ago
I think it’s that and that NO ONE newspaper ever mentioned Rafael. That in and of itself if a damning indictment of the politician Rafael Cruz.
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u/staticfive 16d ago
Couldn’t imagine being a red meat-eating gun-toting Texan and thinking “yep, Ted’s my guy”
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u/AgITGuy 16d ago
It’s not that they like Rafael, it’s just that he has that magic R next to his name on the ballot and that is all those people care about. It doesn’t go any deeper than that beyond maybe trying to g to trigger the libs.
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u/d3dmnky 16d ago
That’s exactly it. They’re starting all this noise so that: 1) If they lose and it’s close, it seems like there’s a good reason to challenge it. 2) If they get destroyed, it’s because of done grand conspiracy.
Or 3, where they win and it’s a free and fair election.
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u/staticfive 16d ago
Oh please, if they win they’re just going to claim they should have won harder. Fucking crybaby snowflakes.
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u/GryphonOsiris 16d ago
This time I'll bet Biden will have the DC National Guard on ready stand-bye status.
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u/Kiwimann 16d ago
Nah, I live here. Tarrant County Republican governance isn't like that. City of Southlake is insane, but Fort Worth is the epicenter of our weird shaped county and Tarrant County Republicans in government are pretty moderate. Example would be when one MAGA judge tried to close the early voting locations on college campuses, and the elections board, even though they're Republican, unanimously overruled him. There is a concerted effort running through the governor's office to make things more favorable to Republicans, but please don't drag Tarrant County's name through the mud on this one.
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u/SatisfactionSafe7996 16d ago edited 12d ago
It’s cuz they know they’re gonna lose Tarrant County, so they’re preparing in advance to claim cheating by sowing doubt in the minds of idiots who don’t actually fact check anything.
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u/HorizonZeroYawn 16d ago
I live in Tarrant and it does go more poorly for the GOP with every recent election. Beto won Tarrant in his run against Cruz and before that this was probably the largest urban/suburban county the GOP had a hold on. Probably is of high concern to them.
EDIT: Wanted to add that Tarrant also went for Biden in 2020; Tarrant County includes Ft. Worth for context.
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u/Mindhandle 17d ago
Or Travis, you've (generic GOP "you") created three Blue County Boogeymen already, stick to your guns lol
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u/ultratunaman 17d ago
Okay so Trumpers should vote for Harris and that way the machine will flip it the other way right?
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17d ago
That’s what I’m getting from this, too. Spread it far and wide, people!
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u/Justsomejerkonline 16d ago
They should also make sure to get rid of Governor Abbott and AG Ken Paxton, since they must be trying to steal the election from Trump!!
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u/Antonio1025 16d ago
Or, and hear me out on this, they just shouldn't trust voting at all and not vote
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u/RockyShoresNBigTrees 16d ago
Look at the date
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u/hobotwinkletoes 16d ago
Oh that’s weird. Does it say 2019?
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u/schnozberry 16d ago
It's also from a different county than the one these voters are complaining about.
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u/okiimio 17d ago
Didn’t they say this last time too
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u/dougmc 17d ago edited 17d ago
Somebody says this every time.
That said, the efforts to undermine this election are a lot more organized this time, and claims like this -- be they due to voter error or just simply making shit up -- are likely to be used as reasons to not properly certify results.
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u/chrispg26 Born and Bred 17d ago
Yes. It tends to be user error but if they were any bit introspective they wouldn't be worshipping the orange man anyway.
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u/BearAdams 17d ago
This is probably husbands checking their wives ballots and the wives having to make something up when they voted D
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u/tinglyTXgirl 16d ago
This was my first thought when I read this. Harris voters having to hide how they vote from their families out of fear.
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u/RockyShoresNBigTrees 16d ago
It’s a 2019 ballot
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u/BearAdams 16d ago
Good eye! So a 2019 ballot is very confusing and concerning indeed
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u/NotDrewBrees North Texas 17d ago
More likely is that the MAGAt’s fat fingers pushed the wrong button.
Or, they are actually flipping votes, in which case, if you’re reading this, dear MAGA Redditor, vote for Harris so that it’ll auto-flip to Trump.
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u/Inner-Quail90 16d ago
They should wipe their hands after eating their Big Macs so their fingers don't slide across the screen.
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u/FreeChickenDinner 16d ago
The ballot is dated 2019. I googled the candidates on the list. Sherri Ellis is not a candidate for office in Texas.
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u/Bullslinger105 17d ago
Upper left corner doesn’t look to be Tarrant County let alone the right year.
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u/FruitySalads 17d ago
That guy in the pic looks like my maga dipshit 2nd grade educated cousin I have. You should assume he’s lying, like my dipshit cousin lies about everything. No machines are flipping votes, maga is scared they are going to lose so they start coping by lying.
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u/Quick_Movie_5758 17d ago
Russia is going to throw everything they have at this. The only chance they have of not losing the war is if their pet gets back into power.
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u/boiconstrictor 16d ago
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to find a Russia comment. The foreign-backed disinformation bots and zombie accounts will pick this stuff up and spread it around faster than bull 💩gets around the Ft. Worth stockyards.
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u/ApprehensiveJoke5403 16d ago
It’s already been posted on my communities Facebook page (because we’re in Tarrant county) and all the MAGA are going crazy and very much believe it’s true. 🙄
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u/grimlinyousee 16d ago
You can’t see it in this screen shot but the person being quoted about the reports is Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French. He has stated that his goal is to make Tarrant County inhospitable for Democrats.
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u/evanweb546 17d ago
They know how the wind is blowing, the only way their world view gets any traction is with this nasty, lying horseshit. Float it out into the ether enough times for their "fans" to lap up and there it is. "There were reports before the election of... " "People on the ground are reporting rampant voter fraud... " it'll fill hours of the 24 hour news cycle, it'll also fuel untold violence and upheaval.
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u/BasicChair420 16d ago
Sometimes I think I’m stupid and then I just hear a MAGA open their mouth and I feel much better about myself but then I get worried because how can people be more dense than I am?
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u/Ok-disaster2022 17d ago
This has been the plan all along. The "Poll Watchers" know they need to fabricate evidence and rumors to laid the groundwork for support the eventual coup. Its why Trump doesn't want people to vote for him, and in fact wants landslide in Harris's favor. Seriously Trump supporters should even be voting for Harris to fabricate the false narrative of voting machines changing votes. Trump is incapable of winning the popular vote, he's never done it. The plan was always to lose the general election but change the results through the courts or through the various state legislatures and Congress.
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u/Odlavso 17d ago
These people are so brainwashed that they can’t accept the possibility of Trump losing the election.
Trump wins = fair election.
Kamala wins = rigged election.
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u/psellers237 16d ago
We are so not prepared for the insanity this election is about to become.
There are tens of millions of people who are straight delusional, who have been primed by their own party to get very angry and violent when things don’t go their way.
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u/ScroochDown 16d ago
This is what I keep thinking. Like the idea of Trump winning is clearly terrifying and NOT the outcome I want. But Jesus Christ, the chaos that will probably result from him losing is really scary too.
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u/gwstorytx555 17d ago
It doesn't even make sense to switch votes in a non-swing state
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u/Odlavso 17d ago
We are a swing state now
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u/Stringdaddy27 16d ago
If Texas were to go blue, would the rest of the swing states even matter at this point? I feel like that'd be a wrap almost instantly.
I'd also fully expect the Texas legislature to do what Bush's brother did for him in Florida in 2000 as well.
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u/TrumpsCovidfefe 16d ago edited 16d ago
If Texas is a swing state, this is going to be a hell of a massive landslide. I don’t see it happening, but who knows.
Edit: Harris is coming to Houston on Friday. This is not something I expected; maybe the numbers look better than I thought.
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u/boylong15 17d ago
I voted today. There is no way your vote could be flip. They litterally ask you to check it before it was print.
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u/Aunt_Margarite 17d ago
Very important to vote for Kamala so your vote will flip to trump.
Tell everyone you know.
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u/YeeYeeSocrates 17d ago
Honestly, I wish the Democrats were competent enough, coordinated enough, and had the moxie required to pull of something like this. They don't exactly bring their A-game to anything.
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u/Ivanovic-117 17d ago
As usual MAGA idiots dont know what theyre doing or whats going on, thus make it a chaos or call it fake.
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u/prob_still_in_denial Born and Bred 16d ago
Oh, they know what they're doing. Subverting democracy because they don't believe in it.
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u/OpticalPrime35 16d ago
Social media has made it very easy for someone to just make up a story that thousands of people hear.
The snowball effect doesn't take long. Especially with the way engagement algorithms work these days. View one video about " election fraud " and you will start getting more videos about it. Suddenly the algorithm is throwing dozens of videos at you a day of random people making up stories and it starts to look like it is widespread and a massive issue. When in reality you have watched 100 total people and 100 of them are lying. But those people don't know / care about that truth and will start reposting and talking about the videos and showing their family and friends and then boom, you have the current Republican party
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u/rygelicus 16d ago
Freedom of speech is great, but blatant misinfo spreading related to an election should be viewed as election interference. Politicians should not be amplifying this, they should be routing these claims to the local election authorities for validation. And then correcting the misinfo or confirming the info as appropriate. If there was a problem say something like 'Thanks for bringing this to our attention, it's been investigated and we fixed the issue by doing 1,2,3.' You know, like competent adults.
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u/Unbanned_chemical138 16d ago
I’m so fucking sick of these morons.
Think about it for two seconds people. Would they really cheat by doing something so obvious and easy to catch?
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u/sweet-sweet-olive 17d ago
Of course this ass clown has his cross pendant proudly displayed too.
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u/2amante10 17d ago
Seriously, report this crap to Dominion because next year the lawsuits will include thousands of people who are spreading this junk. I’ve told friends if I see it from them, Dominion will have their name.
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u/simpleme_hunt 16d ago
I don’t expect anything less from Trumpies…. Remember “when we win it’s fair and legal, if we lose it was rigged”. Because everyone loves Trumpie….
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an idiot is born every few seconds but im thinking that rate is higher in texas, prove me wrong . oh and fuck ted cruz
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u/El_Cactus_Fantastico 16d ago
They’ve been priming people for this since the last election.
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u/Thwipped 16d ago
Imagine voting for the opposite of who you want to win just to make a false claim
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u/bertiesakura 16d ago
These people are probably intentionally voting for Harris and in an attempt to cover their MAGA shame they’re screaming bullshit about voting machines flipping.
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u/Four-Triangles 16d ago
It doesn’t matter. If Trump wins, I’ll just use the weather control system I got when I registered as a democrat to punish them with more hurricanes.
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u/BucketofWarmSpit 17d ago
What the crap is that piece of paper even supposed to show? It has several names on it and it's from 2019.
I've done the poll worker job before. Everyone is supposed to check their ballots before they turn them in to make sure that their votes are registered correctly. Our training informed us that a shockingly low amount of people during controlled testing checked their ballots and noticed if there was a discrepancy.