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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

So on one hand: Harris won NY State by a 10% margin.

On the other hand: if vote machines were tampered with then it likely doesn't stop there.

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago

Yeah, this isn’t really about that one specific district. It’s about all the other districts that were also likely tampered with.

[-] tinkling4938@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 month ago

Trump didn't even try to get elected. Total fuck it all pill during his running like he knew he was going to win, then he wins by a huge margin electorally and the popular vote. It was surreal.

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[-] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Felon practically admitted this last week.

The guy said the Democrats would control the House and even gave numbers for the Republicans in the Senate. What more do people need?

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

I wonder if this is Musks "you wouldnt have won the election without me" quote.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago

Trump said months before the election that he's got it covered and he isn't worried about it. Why would that be? He told us what he was doing at the time, his people were rigging it.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I also strongly believe in their use of projecting as a preemptive defensive strategy.

They say "you cheated you cheated you cheated!" so we reply "you're nuts there's no evidence, it's all a conspiracy theory" so then they can cheat later on and turn it around on you when you go to investigate. "Oh now it's true because you lost? Yeah yeah yeah..."

They're always playing psychological warfare with the population... :(

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And even:

Yes, Trump said Musk knows vote-counting computers 'better than anybody'

He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.

— trump, on stage at a victory rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 2025

The idiot can’t keep his mouth shut and basically blabbed exactly what they were doing, yet nobody really listened.

It will never cease to astound me.

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[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

It definitively is, he similar to trump dies not have a filter. He just counts on things being ambiguous enough that won't affect him.

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[-] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 month ago

I'm very much against conspiracy theories, especially concerning our elections which are administered by many many independent entities. I was very concerned as I watched electronic voting machines - especially without paper trails - become more and more popular over the past 30 years. Even more as the industry consolidated and it came down to a handful of private, for-profit manufacturers.

The thing I've read about that is keeping the door of conspiracy open in my mind is the "drop off" rate, which has to do with the number of "President only" ballots, where only the President is chosen, and no down ballot votes are cast.

Apparently Trump's ballots have an unusually high - like statistically unlikely - drop off. And it's either only in or mostly in/more pronounced in swing states.

Even Chris Titus picked it up (3 hrs total, sorry)

https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs - Part 1 https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0 - Part 2

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[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 38 points 1 month ago

I do believe people were calling me alarmist for noticing strange patterns.

Like winning all 7 swing states? Your fucking kidding me right?

[-] IdontplaytheTrombone@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Considering how much of a strangle the right has over most media, I didn't consider it surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if it was rigged though.

[-] santa@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also not surprising that investigations weren’t pushed harder after election and before new administration. Biden and Garland should’ve put throttle down on a five-alarm-fire investigation into election. Did they? No. Surprised? Not at all.

Transitions shouldn’t necessarily be smooth if an election was potentially fraudulent — peaceful, yes.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Don't EVER mention that piece of shit quisling coward Merrick Garland without also cursing him ever again.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Wild that that dude was almost a SCOTUS justice.

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[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 month ago

If Trump had been blowing people out like Reagan did Mondale, ok, but the races were close.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago

To paraphrase Bush v Gore over negative votes in Florida after the SC sent the case to a lower court and it was appealed back to them

it’s been so long since the election that it would be unfair to change the outcome now

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[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

I always had a feeling that the election was a bit too quickly decided. I’ve said before that in the coming months and years after the 2024 election we would find out something fishy was happening.

[-] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

That’s honestly what got me too. Like it took a week for them to get all of the results from 2020, and sure, that could’ve been all the mail in ballots, but then you have Rogan saying elongated muskrat had called the election the night OF voting?

I don’t know man. I’ve seen a few elections now and don’t remember that happening.

[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Agreed it’s very fishy I don’t wanna sound like a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist but if it quacks like a duck then it’s a duck.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

If you have a few hours to kill, this podcast had the guy from election truth alliance on. It is the most tolerable of the few podcasts he's appeared on because this guy is data heavy, and quite frankly it can be boring with how much he talks about data and graphs, but the data is there. They are very data driven. Part 2 has most of the data, but essentially votes went way up for Republicans as time went on. Statistically speaking, there should be a similar distribution of votes throughout, but what we see is any time Kamala gets close, a flood of red votes come in. The theory is a vote switching algorithm. Imo Elon saying that without him the Dems get the presidency and the house is not hyperbole. I'm pretty sure they were flipping votes and/ or using data from the super PAC $100 giveaway to file fake votes. There are a bunch of submitted ballots that were down ballot dem, but president and house / Senate (the ones that mattered the most) went to Republicans. The only way to find out is to do audits. And even if (and imo when) we do find out it was stolen, I don't think we have any recourse to remove him, but it would be nice to know that we didn't choose this, and the states can beef up their election security and politicians can stop being so spineless thinking that he's so popular and they are powerless.

The guy was dancing around like a crazy person to Ave Maria at his last rally and yelling about people eating cats and dogs on the debate. There's no way anyone saw that and wanted that running the country save the maybe 8% of the population that are Trump Simps.

His rallies were empty and Harris had the momentum with a packed house everywhere she went. She mopped the floor with him in the debate. The fact that she accepted the results and didn't push for a single recount was asinine imo. With Trump, everything is projection. There's evidence they tried to steal '20 and we're just overwhelmed by the sheer volume of people who voted by mail to oust him. Vote by mail is typically hand counted and harder to alter.

https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs

https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The guy was dancing around like a crazy person to Ave Maria at his last rally and yelling about people eating cats and dogs on the debate. There’s no way anyone saw that and wanted that running the country save the maybe 8% of the population that are Trump Simps.

You overestimate this country.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 24 points 1 month ago

Why didn't the democrats demand hand recounts when the election was initially called? It felt like they all just rolled over and accepted defeat.

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because they were following their billionaire overlord's orders? Because they are controlled opposition?

[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 19 points 1 month ago

No fuckin idea. Didn't make sense then, either. We were so afraid to look like the crazy MAGAs. Their tactic worked.

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[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 month ago

Probably same reason they just gave up in Gore v Bush.

[-] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

They didn't give up. The supreme Court decided Bush won Florida, without a recount.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago

Gore then conceded without continuing to fight, to help the county heal. Because actual fighting to win would be bad

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[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

That was the acceleration point of the downward slide we'd been on since Reagan.

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[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This stuff has been going on for a loooong time:

Interview with Stephen Spoonamore on of the electronic voting issues that have been raised for a while now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRW3Bh8HQic

if you want to jump right to his explanation/comparison to his work with securing credit card transactions against "man in the middle" attacks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BRW3Bh8HQic#t=873

The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the controversial system that transferred Ohio's vote count late on election night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga, Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush's unexpected victory. Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a suspicious small plane crash.

Additionally, the filing contains the contract signed between then-Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Connell's company, GovTech Solutions. Also included that contract a graphic architectural map of the Secretary of State's election night server layout system.

Cliff Arnebeck, lead attorney in the King Lincoln case, exchanged emails with IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore. Arnebeck asked Spoonamore whether or not SmarTech had the capability to "input data" and thus alter the results of Ohio's 2004 election. Spoonamore responded: "Yes. They would have had data input capacities. The system might have been set up to log which source generated the data but probably did not."

Spoonamore explained that "they [SmarTech] have full access and could change things when and if they want."

Arnebeck specifically asked "Could this be done using whatever bypass techniques Connell developed for the web hosting function." Spoonamore replied "Yes."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/2319:new-court-filing-reveals-how-the-2004-ohio-presidential-election-was-hacked

Breakdown of why Electronic voting in general is incredibly insecure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Documentary going into Clint Curtis's story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBtfiRKaVY

(the guy from this video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs

Fractional Voting:

http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/

HBO documentary Hacking Democracy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7W7rHxTsH0

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

In the 2000 election cycle, electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold used Microsoft Access as the underlying database for storing vote counts. Only techie oldheads will remember this, but in the world of electronic data storage Access was basically a toy. Access databases did have an audit table (which tracks every change made to the data), but the audit table was hand-editable.

[-] kinther@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Statistically it is very unlikely this would happen given the votes for other Democrats down ticket. It would be like betting on an old horse to win a race and somehow winning.

[-] Neuromorph@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Other irregularities are down ballot Dwmocrat votes. That somehow selected trump he presidents. Such a statistically improbable result

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Also from a technical and logistics perspective, Russia already hacked into a variety of polling stations over the last few years and did seemingly nothing but gather information and plan. Technically this isn't hard or even expensive.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

OK, next question: Let's say we do a 'recount' at this hour, assuming the evidence isn't already lost, what then?

Think he's going to go, ohh my bad?

Think he's going to leave willingly?

Think the court case will even be appropriately handled once it goes to the SCOTUS.

Think the SCOTUS will even hear it?

How is it 100 days later, we just now hear about this?

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Best case scenarios aren't really on the table. Doesn't mean you stop fighting.

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I think the stupidity of the electorate is being vastly underestimated here.

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[-] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

always thought it suspicious there was soooo many reds when the final count was in.

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So wait a minute here guys, you're telling me that the man who was convicted by a unanimous jury of fraud (cheating) in the 2016 election, the same guy who called the governors of various states and asked them to 'find him some votes' in 2020, did not run a clean honest campaign in 2024???

Get the EFF out of here!!

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[-] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

I remember asking a few weeks after the election if anyone at all was talking about it being rigged. It seemed at the time everyone just accepted the result. Only in the past month or so have I started seeing talk of it.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I hate to bring up that site, but reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024 has been all over it since November.

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[-] chosensilence@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

our election was, literally, stolen. Trump and his fascists have spent years calling his loss to Biden “stolen” which ultimately harmed any real attempts at calling out future election results. many statisticians are sounding the alarm bells—something is wrong. the data doesn’t lie and the voting heavily implies manipulation. there is a group investigating our election results and making their findings public. they are very concerned with what they are uncovering.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

After HitlerPig's 2025 State of the Union speech, new Democratic senator Elissa Slotkin gave the Democratic response, and tried to sell the idea that millions of people in her state voted for her for Senator, but Trump for president.

This past weekend, Amy Klobuchar tried to sell that same fantasy on Meet The Press - that millions in her state voted for her, but also voted for HitlerPig.

I'm sure there are a few people who split their vote, but they have to be as rare as white squirrels. There are supposed to be millions of them, so many that HitlerPig even won EVERY battleground state (and exceptionally unlikely outcome), but I've never heard one actual voter claim they voted a straight Democratic ticket, except HitlerPig for president. It sounds ridiculous when you actually say it.

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